Monday Morgue: 25th October 2010

Glittering cuttlefish (F. Sepiidae)
Changi, 21st February 2010

Wild Fact Sheets
Amazing Cuttlefish

Raffles Museum Treasures: Giant millipede

Giant millipede(Thyropygus sp.)
Collected from Bukit Timah, 1970
Native to Singapore

www.myriapoda.org
International Society of Myriapodology and Onychophorology
BugGuide.Net
CSIRO Insects and their Allies
Animal Diversity Web
The Earth Life Web


(Photo by Jacqueline)

Raffles Museum Treasures: Scaled nerite

Scaled nerite (Nerita histrio)
Native to Singapore

Wild Fact Sheets
Project Semakau
Taxonomy and distribution of the Neritidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) on Singapore
Life-history traits of a gastropod, Nerita squamulata Le Guillou 1841, on a subtropical cobbled shore disturbed by sand

Raffles Museum Treasures: Spotted tortoise beetle

Spotted tortoise beetle (Aspidomorpha miliaris)
Collected from Nee Soon swamp-forest, April 1992
Native to Singapore

Southeast Asian beetles
Sweet Potato Diagnotes
Preliminary life table of the spotted tortoise beetle, Aspidomorpha miliaris Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Sumatra


(Photo by James)

Raffles Museum Treasures: Giant reef worm

Giant reef worm (Eunice sp.)
Collected from Singapore, 1997
Native to Singapore

Wild Fact Sheets
A Guide to Singapore Polychaetes
The annotated budak: Eunice aphroditois
Life on Australian Seashores
SeaLifeBase


Eunice aphroditois
(Photo by echeng)

Raffles Museum Treasures: Blood cockle

Blood cockle (Anadara granosa)
Native to Singapore

Wild Fact Sheets
A Guide to Seashore Life in Singapore
Analysis of the Growth of Anadara granosa (Bivalvia: Arcidae) in Natural, Artificially Seeded and Experimental Populations
FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department Species Fact Sheets
SeaLifeBase


(Photo by mayha0507)

Raffles Museum Treasures: Marine spider

Marine spider (Desis martensi)
Collected from Pulau Seringat reef flat, July 1997
Native to Singapore: Vulnerable

Wild Fact Sheets
A Guide to Seashore Life in Singapore
A checklist of spiders from Singapore
Singapore Red Data Book
The annotated budak: Rubble runner
Arthropoda: The other sea spiders


(Photo by James)

Raffles Museum Treasures: Malayan porcupine

Malayan porcupine (Hystrix brachyura)
Collected from Bukit Timah, August 1923
Native to Singapore: Critically Endangered

Habitatnews: The Tekong Porcupine
Tekong's treasures
IUCN Red List


(Photo by kwokwai76)

Monday Morgue: 18th October 2010

Plain sand star (Astropecten indicus)
Changi, 16th October 2010

Wild Fact Sheets

Raffles Museum Treasures: Noble volute

Noble volute (Cymbiola nobilis)
Native to Singapore: Vulnerable

Wild Fact Sheets


(Photo by Kok Sheng)

Raffles Museum Treasures: Rare-spined murex

Rare-spined murex (Murex trapa)
Native to Singapore: Vulnerable

Wild Fact Sheets
SeaLifeBase
Larval Development and Geographical Distribution of the Indo-West Pacific Murex


(Photo by Ria)

Raffles Museum Treasures: Lined moon snail

Lined moon snail (Natica lineata)
Native to Singapore

Wild Fact Sheets
SeaLifeBase
Occurrence of Tetrodotoxin in the Causative Gastropod Polinices didyma and another Gastropod Natica lineata Collected from Western Taiwan
Detection of Tetrodotoxin by High Performance Liquid Chromatography in Lined-Moon Shell and Puffer Fish
Tetrodotoxin-binding proteins isolated from five species of toxic gastropods


(Photo by Ria)

Raffles Museum Treasures: Toothed top shell

Toothed top shell (Monodonta labio)
Native to Singapore

Wild Fact Sheets
A Guide to Seashore Life in Singapore
SeaLifeBase
World Register of Marine Species
Vertical migration during the life history of the intertidal gastropod Monodonta labio on a boulder shore
Tidal growth patterns in recent Monodonta labio (LINNAEUS, 1758) (Gastropoda, Trochidae)


(Photo by Kok Sheng)

Raffles Museum Treasures: Rodong

Rodong (Telescopium telescopium)
Native to Singapore

Wild Fact Sheets
A Guide to the Mangroves of Singapore
A Guide to Seashore Life in Singapore
SeaLifeBase


(Photo by kokhuitan)

Raffles Museum Treasures: Spiral melongena

Spiral melongena (Pugilina cochlidium)
Native to Singapore

Wild Fact Sheets
A Guide to Seashore Life in Singapore
The Melongenidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Singapore


(Photo by James)

Raffles Museum Treasures: Belongkeng

Belongkeng (Ellobium aurismidae)
Native to Singapore

Wild Fact Sheets
A Guide to the Mangroves of Singapore
A Guide to Seashore Life in Singapore
On Ellobium aurismalchi (Müller, 1774) (Mollusca: Ellobiidae)
SeaLifeBase


Ellobium sp.
(Photo by Ria)

Monday Morgue: 11th October 2010

Margined conch (Strombus marginatus sowerbyorum)
Tanah Merah, 10th October 2010

The status in Singapore of Strombus (Dolomena) marginatus sowerbyorum Visser & Man In't Veld, 2005 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Strombidae)

Raffles Museum Treasures: Rhinoceros beetle

Rhinoceros beetle (Xylotrupes gideon)
Collected from Lower Seletar Reservoir, May 1992
Native to Singapore

Featured species of Scarabaeidae
Brisbane Insects and Spiders Home Page
Discover Nature at JCU
The mettle of the beetle


(Photo by wagtail)

Raffles Museum Treasures: Short-legged harvestman

Short-legged harvestman (Sandokan truncatus)
Collected from Nee Soon swamp-forest
Native to Singapore

The annotated budak: Penes for your thought
Replacement names for Oncopus and Oncopodidae (Arachnida, Opiliones)
Oncopus Thorell, 1876 and ONCOPODIDAE Thorell, 1876 (Arachnida, Opiliones): proposed conservation
Comments on the proposed conservation of Oncopus Thorell, 1876 and ONCOPODIDAE Thorell, 1876 (Arachnida, Opiliones) (Case 3350)
OPINION 2189 (Case 3350) Oncopus Thorell, 1876 and ONCOPODIDAE Thorell, 1876 (Arachnida, Opiliones): proposed conservation of the names not approved


(Photo by Tiomanese)

Raffles Museum Treasures: Banded paper wasp

Banded paper wasp (Polistes sagittarius)
Collected from Kent Ridge, June 1997
Native to Singapore

Asian Hornet Net
Distributional checklist of the species of the genus Polistes (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Polistinae, Polistini)
Keys to the genera of social wasps of South-East Asia (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)


(Photo by KatanaZ)

Raffles Museum Treasures: Giant weevil

Giant weevil (Macrochirus sp.)
Collected from Kent Ridge, 1999
Native to Singapore


Macrochirus praetor
(Photo by audobonimages)

Raffles Museum Treasures: Six-spotted jumping spider

Six-spotted jumping spider (Bavia sexpunctata)
Collected from Labrador Park, January 1991
Native to Singapore

A checklist of spiders from Singapore
Salticidae (Araneae) of the World
Global Species Database of Salticidae (Araneae)
Worldwide database of jumping spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae)


Male Bavia sexpunctata?
(Photo by Marcus)

Raffles Museum Treasures: Stalk-eyed fly

Stalk-eyed fly (?Teleopsis quinqueguttata)
Collected from Bukit Timah, June 1985
Native to Singapore

This specimen was labelled as "Diopteris sp.", which is probably an error, as this name apparently doesn't exist.

Karthik's Journey: Stalk-eyed Fly
Pharyngula: The Lovely Stalk-eyed Fly
Female choice response to artificial selection on an
exaggerated male trait in a stalk-eyed fly


Teleopsis quinqueguttata
(Photo by spilopterus)

Raffles Museum Treasures: Mole cricket

Mole cricket (Gryllotalpa sp.)
Collected from Telok Blangah, October 1989
Native to Singapore

Very little information about the mole crickets of Singapore is readily available; one species (Gryllotalpa fulvipes) is Endangered and known only from primary forest in Bukit Timah.

Mole Cricket Knowledge Base
Rice Knowledge Bank: Pests
Brisbane Insects and Spiders
Pest Mole Cricket Management


(Photo by Frog Head)

Monday Morgue: 4th October 2010

Hammer oyster (Malleus sp.)
Cyrene Reef, 26th June 2010

While the white hammer oyster (Malleus albus) has been recorded in Singapore, it is also possible that the black hammer oyster (M. malleus) is present here as well.

Wild Fact Sheets
Form and habit in species of Malleus (including the "hammer oysters") with comparative observations on Isognomon isognomon

Raffles Museum Treasures: Blue lion's mane jellyfish

Blue lion's mane jellyfish (Cyanea lamarcki)
Collected from West Coast, May 1987
Visitor

The Marine Life Information Network
British Marine Life Study Society: British Jellyfish
British Marine Life


(Photo by Danygraig)

Raffles Museum Treasures: Stinging hydroid

Stinging hydroid (Gymnangium hians)
Collected from Jurong
Native to Singapore

Wild Fact Sheets


(Photo by Ria)