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Recognized as the world's smallest known octopus, with a mantle length under 1.5 cm, found in shallow tropical Indo-Pacific and western Atlantic reef environments.
The dwarf pygmy octopus of the western Atlantic, one of the smallest known octopus species, distributed from Florida through the Caribbean Sea.
Tetrix subulata, known as the slender groundhopper or common pygmy grasshopper, is a small member of the family Tetrigidae and the type species of the genus Tetrix. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761 and is distributed across much of the Palearctic as well as North America. The species is ass...
Tetrix subulata, commonly called the common pygmy grasshopper or slender groundhopper, is a small grasshopper in the family Tetrigidae. Described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761, it has an elongated pronotum that extends over the abdomen and typically possesses functional wings, allowing many individuals t...
Octopus joubini, a small species from the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, is notable for brooding its large-yolked eggs inside empty gastropod or bivalve shells.
The common groundhopper (Tetrix undulata) is a small insect belonging to the family Tetrigidae, distributed across northern and central Europe. Like other groundhoppers, it is distinguished by an elongated pronotum that extends backward over the abdomen like a shield, giving it a distinctive profile...
Tetrix tenuicornis is a long-horned groundhopper in the family Tetrigidae, described by Sahlberg in 1891 and recorded among European Tetrix species.
Small Indo-Pacific octopus whose Latin name 'nanus' means dwarf, reflecting its diminutive size among benthic octopus species of the region.
Tetrix bipunctata is a boreo-subalpine pygmy grasshopper described by Linnaeus in 1758, ranging from western Europe to Korea.
Tetrix ceperoi is a small groundhopper described by Bolivar in 1887, notable for warm damp bare habitats and well-developed hind wings.
The pygmy short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis kunsi) is a small opossum described by Ronald Pine in 1975 and found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay.
Paratettix meridionalis is the type species of Paratettix, described by Rambur in 1838 and distributed around southern Europe and North Africa.
Nomotettix cristatus is a North American pygmy grasshopper described by Scudder in 1863, known as the crested pygmy grasshopper.
The Arfak pygmy bandicoot (Microperoryctes aplini) is a vulnerable Indonesian bandicoot described in 2004 from the Arfak Mountains.
