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Split Rock
Pleiospilos nelii
Pleiospilos nelii, the split rock, splitrock or living granite, is a species of flowering plant in the family Aizoaceae, native to South Africa. It grows in semi-arid areas with rainfall of between 150mm and 300mm, in the Karoo of South Africa.
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Christmas Cactus
Schlumbergera bridgesii
Schlumbergera is a small genus of cacti with six to nine species native to the coastal mountains of southeastern Brazil. These plants grow on trees or rocks in habitats that are generally shady with high humidity, and can be quite different in appearance from their desert-dwelling cousins. Most species of Schlumbergera have stems which resemble leaf-like pads joined one to the other and flowers which appear from areoles at the joints and tips of the stems. Two species have cylindrical stems more similar to other cacti.
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Easter Cactus
Hatiora gaertneri
Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri, synonyms Schlumbergera gaertneri and Hatiora gaertneri, is a species of epiphytic cactus which belongs to the tribe Rhipsalideae within the subfamily Cactoideae of the Cactaceae. Together with the hybrid with R. rosea, Rhipsalidopsis × graeseri, it is known, in English speaking countries in the Northern Hemisphere, as Easter cactus or Whitsun cactus and is a widely cultivated ornamental plant. It has received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
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Bunny Ear Cactus
Opuntia microdasys
Opuntia microdasys is a species of flowering plant in the cactus family, Cactaceae. It is native and endemic to central and northern Mexico.
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Golden Barrel Cactus
Echinocactus grusonii
Golden Barrel Cactus (Echinocactus grusonii)
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Mosquito Fish
Gambusia affinis
Mosquito Fish (Gambusia affinis)
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Pygmy Sunfish
Elassoma evergladei
Pygmy Sunfish (Elassoma evergladei)
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Blackbanded Sunfish
Enneacanthus chaetodon
Blackbanded Sunfish (Enneacanthus chaetodon)
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Pumpkinseed Sunfish
Lepomis gibbosus
Pumpkinseed Sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus)
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Bluegill
Lepomis macrochirus
Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus)
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Green Sunfish
Lepomis cyanellus
Green Sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus)
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Warmouth
Lepomis gulosus
Warmouth (Lepomis gulosus)
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Rock Bass
Ambloplites rupestris
Rock Bass (Ambloplites rupestris)
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Crappie
Pomoxis
Crappie (Pomoxis)
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Slow Loris
Nycticebus
Slow Loris (Nycticebus)
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Pygmy Marmoset
Cebuella pygmaea
Pygmy Marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea)
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Emperor Tamarin
Saguinus imperator
Emperor Tamarin (Saguinus imperator)
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Sloth
Folivora
Sloths are a Neotropical group of xenarthran mammals constituting the suborder Folivora, including the extant arboreal tree sloths and extinct terrestrial ground sloths. Noted for their slowness of movement, tree sloths spend most of their lives hanging upside down in the trees of the tropical rainforests of South America and Central America. Sloths are considered to be most closely related to anteaters, together making up the xenarthran order Pilosa.
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Two-Toed Sloth
Choloepus
Two-Toed Sloth (Choloepus)
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Three-Toed Sloth
Bradypus
The three-toed or three-fingered sloths are arboreal neotropical mammals. They are the only members of the genus Bradypus and the family Bradypodidae. The five living species of three-toed sloths are the brown-throated sloth, the maned sloth, the pale-throated sloth, the southern maned sloth, and the pygmy three-toed sloth. In complete contrast to past morphological studies, which tended to place Bradypus as the sister group to all other folivorans, molecular studies place them nested within the sloth superfamily Megatherioidea, making them the only surviving members of that radiation.
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