Monday Morgue: 27th December 2010

Waigeu sea perch (Psammoperca waigiensis)
Cyrene Reef, 26th June 2010

A Guide to Common Marine Fishes of Singapore
FishBase
Fishes of Bitung

Monday Morgue: 20th December 2010

Spider conch (Lambis lambis)
Berlayar Creek, 14th August 2010

Wild Fact Sheets
SeaLifeBase

Monday Morgue: 13th December 2010

Common Asian toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus)
Jurong, 22nd November 2010

Ecology Asia
Wildlife Singapore
AmphibiaWeb
Amphibians and Reptiles of Malaysia

The Saga of Singapore's Titan Arum

For a brief period, visitors to the Singapore Botanic Gardens will bear witness to what is probably a once in a lifetime event: the blooming of the titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum).

Monday Morgue: 6th December 2010

Sentinel crab (Macrophthalmus sp.)
Pulau Hantu, 27th June 2010

Wild Fact Sheets
Guide to the Mangroves of Singapore

Monday Morgue: 29th November 2010

Giant African snail (Achatina fulica)
Sengkang Riverside Park, 27th November 2010

The Giant African Snail: A Problem in Economic Malacology
PetSnails.co.uk
ARKive
Global Invasive Species Database
National Invasive Species Information Centre
Caribbean Pest Information Network
The Spread of the Snail Achatina fulica to South China
Invasive Snails and an Emerging Infectious Disease: Results from the First National Survey on Angiostrongylus cantonensis in China

Monday Morgue: 22nd November 2010

Tree-climbing crab (Episesarma sp.)
Pasir Ris, 21st November 2010

Wild Fact Sheets
A Guide to the Mangroves of Singapore
A Guide to Seashore Life in Singapore
WETlands: Tree-climbing crabs in Singapore Mangroves

Monday Morgue: 15th November 2010

Red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans)
Mainland Tropical Fish Farm, 12th December 2009

This was an empty shell I found in an enclosure that had been set up for red-eared sliders at Mainland Tropical Fish Farm.

Ecology Asia
Wildlife Singapore
Global Invasive Species Database
NAS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species
Turtles of the World
Animal Diversity Web

Monday Morgue: 8th November 2010

Coastal horseshoe crab (Tachypleus gigas)
Changi, 1st November 2008

That's my thumb for scale.

Wild Fact Sheets
A Guide to Seashore Life

Monday Morgue: 1st November 2010

Shark (Elasmobranchii)
Beting Bemban Besar, 3rd April 2010

Based on the black tip on the first dorsal fin and the general body proportions, this might be a young blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus).

FishBase
IUCN Red List
ARKive
Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department Biological Profiles
MarineBio.org
Australian Museum Fact Sheets

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)