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)