rhamphotheca:

scientificillustration: The Axolotl and the Mudpuppy

n222_w1150 by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Sciurus hypopyrrhus (subspecies of and may be synonymous with Sciurus aureogaster) - Mexican Red-Bellied Squirrel

This subspecies of the Mexican Gray Squirrel is possibly just a variation on Sciurus aureogaster. As it has no distinct population separate from the Mexican Gray, the Red-Bellied and melanistic “subspecies” (all of which interbreed) are often considered nothing more than color variants.

Biologia centralia-americana. Edward Richard Alston, 1882.

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Blue Morpho Butterly

Martin Johnson Heade 

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This species of butterfly is native to Central and South America. Heade visited the region in the 1860s.