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21/04/2026

New publication alert!
Satu spesies baru laba-laba dari genus Rathalos resmi dideskripsikan dari Pulau Jawa oleh tim peneliti Species Obscura, termasuk dan , dan Prof. Purnama Hidayat dari Proteksi Tanaman IPB University. Spesies ini diberi nama Rathalos inagami, terinspirasi dari karakter monster โ€œInagamiโ€ dalam Monster Hunter yang sama-sama berasosiasi dengan hutan bambu.
Sebelumnya, genus Rathalos hanya diketahui dari negeri tirai bambu, yaitu R. treecko dan R. xiushanensis. Genus laba-laba ini terbilang unik, karena diketahui hanya tercatat dijumpai di habitat bambu. Penemuan R. inagami ini sekaligus menjadi catatan pertama keberadaan genus tersebut di Asia Tenggara. Temuan ini mengingatkan kita bahwa masih banyak biodiversitas yang belum terungkap, bahkan di lingkungan yang selama ini kita anggap sudah familiar.
Selamat kepada tim peneliti atas kontribusi penting ini!

A new spider species from the genus Rathalos has been officially described from Java Island by the Species Obscura research team, including and , and Prof. Purnama Hidayat from Plant Protection of IPB University. The species is named Rathalos inagami, inspired by the monster character โ€œInagamiโ€ from Monster Hunter, which is also associated with bamboo forests.
Previously, the genus Rathalos was only known from Chinaโ€”home to R. treecko and R. xiushanensis. This genus is quite unique, as it has only been recorded from bamboo habitats. The discovery of R. inagami marks the first record of this genus in Southeast Asia.
This finding reminds us that there is still a vast amount of biodiversity yet to be uncovered, even in environments we consider familiar.
Congratulations to the research team on this important contribution!

Ternyata di Indonesia, ada masyarakat yang tak takut hidup berdampingan dan bersebelahan dengan ular berbisa loh, yuk ba...
29/03/2026

Ternyata di Indonesia, ada masyarakat yang tak takut hidup berdampingan dan bersebelahan dengan ular berbisa loh, yuk baca lebih lanjut lagi di postingan ini, kali ini kita akan mengenal Ular Punai atau ๐˜›๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ถ๐˜ด ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ช ๐Ÿ๐ŸŒฑ

Happy World Frog Day! ๐ŸธMeet the Black-eyed Litter Frog (๐˜“๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ด). Known for its "goth" aesthetic, this sto...
20/03/2026

Happy World Frog Day! ๐Ÿธ

Meet the Black-eyed Litter Frog (๐˜“๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ด). Known for its "goth" aesthetic, this stocky frog is famous for its deep, obsidian eyes and incredible camouflage.
Found in the lowland forests and peat swamps of the Malay Peninsula, Singapore, and Sumatra.

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Selamat Hari Katak Sedunia!!! ๐Ÿธ

Perkenalkan Bangkong Serasah Mata Hitam (๐˜“๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฃ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฑ๐˜ด). Dikenal karena estetika "gothic"-nya, katak gempal memiliki ciri unik karena mata hitam legamnya yang ikonik dan kemampuan kamuflase yang luar biasa.
Dapat dijumpai di hutan dataran rendah dan rawa gambut di Semenanjung Malaya, Singapura, dan Sumatera.


Bedawang di Kampung Ramadhan Masjid Ar-Raudhah.Alhamdulillah, Terima kasih kepada seluruh jamaah yang hadir merayakan ka...
17/03/2026

Bedawang di Kampung Ramadhan Masjid Ar-Raudhah.
Alhamdulillah, Terima kasih kepada seluruh jamaah yang hadir merayakan kaitan erat antara kuliner, biodiversitas, dan budaya lokal.
Semoga semangat menjaga warisan budaya dan alam ini terus tumbuh melampaui bulan suci. Sampai jumpa di kolaborasi berikutnya! ๐ŸŒฟ๐ŸŸ

โœจEdukasi Warna : Pengenalan Fauna Lokal Sejak DiniโœจSwarnadipa goes to kindergarten,Edukasi mengenai fauna lokal bersama ...
28/05/2025

โœจEdukasi Warna : Pengenalan Fauna Lokal Sejak Diniโœจ

Swarnadipa goes to kindergarten,
Edukasi mengenai fauna lokal bersama RA An-Nasywa, dalam bentuk program edukasi Swarnadipa untuk mencapai seluruh lapisan masyarakat agar dapat menumbuhkan rasa kepedulian dan kesadaran mengenai ekosistem dan keanekaragaman hayati fauna lokal sejak dini.

On Today's Exploration "Eksplor Warna : Kantong Semar" we observe some of the native pitcher plant species like Nepenthe...
18/05/2025

On Today's Exploration "Eksplor Warna : Kantong Semar" we observe some of the native pitcher plant species like Nepenthes mirabilis, Nepenthes gracilis and Nepenthes ampullaria, interested in this kind of exploration? Join us in our next exploration next month, stay tuned for further information for the next "Eksplor Warna" event.

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Pada Eksplorasi Hari Ini "Eksplor Warna : Kantong Semar" kami mengamati beberapa spesies kantong semar lokal seperti Nepenthes mirabilis, Nepenthes gracilis dan Nepenthes ampullaria, tertarik dengan eksplorasi semacam ini? Bergabunglah dengan kami di eksplorasi berikutnya di bulan depan, nantikan informasi lebih lanjut untuk acara "Eksplor Warna" berikutnya.

20/04/2025

โ€ข 2025 :: Iguanas rafted more than 8,000 km from North America to
novataxa.blogspot.com/2025/03/brachylophus.html
DOI: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2318622122
https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/03/17/iguanas-floated-one-fifth-of-the-way-around-the-world-to-colonize-fiji/

[[ A Fijian crested (Brachylophus vitiensis) resting on a coconut palm on the island of Fiji in the . The four species of iguanas that inhabit Fiji and Tonga today are descended from ancestors that colonized the island within the past 34 million years, probably by rafting 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean from western North America.
photo: Nicholas Hess ]]

Abstract :: Founder-event speciation can occur when one or more organisms colonize a distant, unoccupied area via long-distance dispersal, leading to the of a new species lineage. Species radiations established by long-distance, and especially transoceanic, dispersal can cause substantial shifts in regional biodiversity. Here, we investigate the occurrence and timing of the greatest known long-distance oceanic dispersal event in the history of terrestrial vertebratesโ€”the rafting of iguanas from North America to Fiji. Iguanas are large-bodied herbivores that are well-known overwater dispersers, including species that colonized the Caribbean and the Galรกpagos islands. However, the origin of Fijian iguanas had not been comprehensively tested. We estimated the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary timescale of the iguanid lizard radiation using genome-wide exons and ultraconserved elements (UCEs). Those data indicate that the closest living relative of extant Fijian iguanas is the North American desert iguana and that the two taxa likely diverged during the late Paleogene near or after the onset of volcanism that produced the Fijian archipelago. Biogeographic models estimate North America as the most probable ancestral range of Fijian . Our analyses support the hypothesis that iguanas reached Fiji via an extraordinary oceanic dispersal event from western North America, and which spanned a fifth of the earthโ€™s circumference (>8,000 km). Overwater rafting of iguanas from North America to Fiji strengthens the importance of founder-event speciation in the diversification of iguanids and elucidates the scope of long-distance dispersal across terrestrial vertebrates.



S. G. Scarpetta, R. N. Fisher, et al. 2025. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122 (12) e2318622122.
DOI: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2318622122 [March 17, 2025]

Iguanas floated to Fiji millions of years ago on an unprecedented raft journey, scientists say
https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/03/17/iguanas-floated-one-fifth-of-the-way-around-the-world-to-colonize-fiji/

Some of the Reticulated pythons in our collection, we will be focusing on breeding and selectively breeding on localitie...
24/03/2025

Some of the Reticulated pythons in our collection, we will be focusing on breeding and selectively breeding on localities.

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Beberapa koleksi spesimen dari Sanca Kembang yang kami miliki, kami akan fokus pada pembiakan dan pembiakan selektif pada lokalitas.

21/03/2025

Selamat Hari Hutan Sedunia!!
Happy Internasional Day of Forest!!
๐ŸŒณ๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿž๏ธ

20/03/2025

Happy World Frog Day!!!

Meet The Western Sunda Spotted Stream Frog or know as ๐˜—๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ข ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต, this species can be found in mostly lowland forest streams in Thailand, Malay Peninsula and Sumatra Island.

Despite having "Sunda" in their name, it has nothing to do with the Sundanese Ethnic group, the word Sunda itself came from Sundaland an ancient biogeographical land that existed about 2.4 million years ago that now has become modern day Sumatra, Java, Borneo and the rest of Malay Peninsula to the Asian Mainland

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Selamat Hari Katak Dunia!!!

Perkenalkan ini adalah Katak Berbintik Sunda Barat atau yang bernama latin ๐˜—๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ข ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต, spesies ini biasanya dapat dijumpai di aliran air didalam hutan Thailand, Semenanjung Malaya dan Pulau Sumatera.

Meski memiliki kata Sunda didalam namanya, nama Sunda pada katak ini tidak memiliki hubungan apapun dengan Etnis Sunda, kata Sunda didalam konteks ini mengacu pada Sundaland atau Tanah Sunda, sebuah area biogeografis kuno yang ada sekitar 2.4 juta tahun yang lalu yang sekarang telah menjadi Sumatra, Jawa, Borneo serta Semenanjung Malaya hingga ke daratan utama Asia.

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