Biology is my lifelong love and undergrad degree. I'm also particularly fond of Australia and the American mid/southwest. Someday I'll move to SA and farm potoroos, but in the meantime I'm a freelance scientific illustrator based in California. (my profile pic is by the famous naturalist/illustrator John Gould, however)

I'm only just starting to get into arthropods and fungi, so ID help there is especially welcome.

Some favorite identification sources (and always looking for more if anyone has recommendations):
USDA Plants Database
The Sibley Guide to Birds [North America]
Kaufman Field Guide to Mammals of North America
Dragonflies of the Southwest
Plant Galls of California and Other Western States (Russo)
The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California
California Herps
Hawai'i's Sea Creatures (Hoover)
The Ultimate Guide to Hawai'ian Reef Fishes (Hoover)
Insects of Hawaii
Reef Coral/Creature/Fish Identification: Florida Caribbean Bahamas (Humann & DeLoach)

Reef Creature/Fish ID: Tropical Pacific (Humann & DeLoach)
A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia (Wilson & Swan)
The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia (Pizzey & Knight)
Mammals of Australia (Strahan)
FloraBase: Western Australian Flora
PlantNET: NSW FloraOnline
Key to Tasmanian Vascular Plants
Victorian Drosera and Utricularia (though not all names are up to date)
Interactive Australian Dragonfly Identification Key
Tasmanian Cave Fauna brochure

Collins/Princeton Birds of Europe (Svensson, Mullarney, & Zetterstrom)

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Whale Shark - Photo (c) Mark Rosenstein, all rights reserved C
Whale Shark Info
The whale shark, Rhincodon typus, is a slow moving filter feeding shark that is the largest living fish species. The largest confirmed individual had a length of 12.65 metres (41.50 ft) and a weight of more than 21.5 tonnes (47,000 lb), but there are unconfirmed claims of considerably larger whale sharks. This distinctively-marked shark is the only member of its genus Rhincodon and its family, Rhincodontidae (called Rhinodontes before 1984), which is grouped into the subclass Elasmobranchii in the class... (From Wikipedia)
Siloxerus humifusus - Photo (c) megatherium, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND) CC
Siloxerus humifusus Info
No Wikipedia page for this taxon. Start one now!
Common Nighthawk - Photo (c) Jerry Oldenettel, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) CC
Common Nighthawk Info
The Common Nighthawk, Chordeiles minor, is a nightjar. (From Wikipedia)
Lentibulariaceae - Photo (c) Kai Yan, Joseph Wong, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) CC
Lentibulariaceae Info
Lentibulariaceae (bladderwort family) is a family of carnivorous plants containing three genera, Genlisea, the corkscrew plants, Pinguicula, the butterworts, and Utricularia, the bladderworts. (From Wikipedia)
Stylidiaceae - Photo (c) Kate's Photo Diary, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND) CC
Stylidiaceae Info
The family Stylidiaceae is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants. It consists of five genera with over 240 species, most of which are endemic to Australia and New Zealand. Members of Stylidiaceae are typically grass-like herbs or small shrubs and can be perennials or annuals. Most species are free standing or self-supporting, though a few can be climbing or scrambling (Stylidium scandens uses leaf tips recurved into hooks to climb). (From Wikipedia)
Droseraceae - Photo (c) Paul Huber, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND) CC
Droseraceae Info
Droseraceae is the botanical name for a family of flowering plants. The family is also known under its common name, the sundew family. (From Wikipedia)
Largescale Four-eyed Fish - Photo (c) Ruben Undheim, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) CC
Largescale Four-eyed Fish Info
The four-eyed fishes are a genus, Anableps, of fishes in the family Anablepidae. They have eyes raised above the top of the head and divided in two different parts, so that they can see below and above the water surface at the same time. Like their relatives, the onesided livebearers, four-eyed fishes only mate on one side, right-"handed" males with left-"handed" females and vice versa. These fish inhabitat freshwater and brackishwater and are only rarely coastal... (From Wikipedia)
Onychophorans - Photo (c) Bruno Vellutini, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) CC
Onychophorans Info
The velvet worms (Onychophora — literally "claw bearers") are a minor Ecdysozoan phylum. The segmented worm-like organisms have tiny eyes, antennae, multiple pairs of legs and slime glands. Most common in tropical regions of the Southern Hemisphere, they prey on smaller animals such as insects, which they catch by squirting an adhesive slime. In modern zoology they are particularly renowned for their curious mating behaviour and for bearing live young. They are becoming increasingly popular as... (From Wikipedia)
Old World pitcher plants - Photo (c) Jack Wolf, some rights reserved (CC BY-ND) CC
Old World pitcher plants Info
The Nepenthes (pronounced /nɨˈpɛnθiːz/, from Greek: ne 'not', penthos 'grief, sorrow'; named after the mythical drug Nepenthe), popularly known as tropical pitcher plants or monkey cups, are a genus of carnivorous plants in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae. The genus comprises roughly 120 species, numerous natural and many cultivated hybrids. They are mostly liana-forming plants of the Old World tropics, ranging from South China, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines; westward to Madagascar (2 species) and the Seychelles... (From Wikipedia)
New World pitcher plants - Photo (c) Du-Sa-Ni-Ma, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) CC
New World pitcher plants Info
Sarraceniaceae is a family of pitcher plants (along with Nepenthaceae), belonging to order Ericales (previously Nepenthales). (From Wikipedia)
Snakes - Photo (c) Matt Reinbold, some rights reserved (CC BY-ND) CC
Snakes Info
Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. Many species of snakes have skulls with many more joints than their lizard ancestors, enabling them to swallow prey much larger than their heads with their highly mobile jaws. To accommodate their narrow bodies, snakes' paired organs (such as... (From Wikipedia)
Rodents - Photo (c) Bruce E. Hengst Sr., some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) CC
Rodents Info
Rodentia is an order of mammals also known as rodents, characterised by two continuously growing incisors in the upper and lower jaws which must be kept short by gnawing. (From Wikipedia)
Kangaroos, Possums, Wombats, and Allies - Photo (c) Just chaos, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC
Kangaroos, Possums, Wombats, and Allies Info
Diprotodontia ( /daɪˌproʊtɵˈdɒnʃⁱə/; Greek: διπρωτός diprotos, meaning "two front" and οδοντος odontos meaning "teeth") is a large order of about 120 marsupial mammals including the kangaroos, wallabies, possums, koala, wombats, and many others. Extinct diprotodonts include the rhinoceros-sized Diprotodon, and Thylacoleo, the so-called "marsupial lion". (From Wikipedia)
Bandicoots - Photo (c) GregTheBusker, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC
Bandicoots Info
The order Peramelemorphia includes the bandicoots and bilbies: it equates approximately to the mainstream of marsupial omnivores. All members of the order are endemic to the twin land masses of Australia-New Guinea and most have the characteristic bandicoot shape: a plump, arch-backed body with a long, delicately tapering snout, very large upright ears, relatively long, thin legs, and a thin tail. Their size varies from about 140 grams up to 2 kilograms, but most species are... (From Wikipedia)
Carnivorous Marsupials & Numbats - Photo (c) Scott MacLeod Liddle, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND) CC
Carnivorous Marsupials & Numbats Info
The order Dasyuromorphia (meaning "hairy tail") comprises most carnivorous marsupials, including quolls, dunnarts, the Numbat, the Tasmanian Devil, and the recently extinct Thylacine. The only exceptions are the omnivorous bandicoots (order Peramelemorphia) and the marsupial moles (which eat meat but are very different and are now accorded an order of their own, Notoryctemorphia). (From Wikipedia)
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