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Octopus mercatoris is a small western Atlantic octopus commonly known as the Caribbean dwarf octopus. Taxonomic and regional sources associate it with the western central Atlantic, including the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, and place it in the family Octopodidae; some Caribbean registries list the...

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, commonly called the Atlantic pygmy octopus or Joubin's octopus, is a small octopus of the tropical western Atlantic. It occurs from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico through the Caribbean and toward the Guianas, using shallow benthic habitats such as sandy, coral, and rubble bottoms an...

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, commonly called the long-horned groundhopper, is a grasshopper in the family Tetrigidae. Sahlberg described the species in 1891, and it is included among the European species of Tetrix. Records associate it with sparsely vegetated, earthy or sandy ground rather than dense grass,...

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.

Cepero's groundhopper, Tetrix ceperoi, is a species of pygmy grasshopper in the family Tetrigidae. Ignacio Bolívar described it in 1887. The species is associated with warm, damp, sparsely vegetated or bare ground, and it is distinguished in part by relatively well-developed hind wings; these traits...

The pygmy short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis kunsi, is a small marsupial in the opossum group. Ronald Pine described the species in 1975, and its recorded range includes Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay. It is relevant to readers interested in South American mammals, marsupial diversity, and...

Paratettix meridionalis is a pygmy grasshopper in the family Tetrigidae and the type species of its genus. Rambur described it in 1838, and its distribution includes parts of southern Europe and North Africa. It is associated with damp ground and wetland margins, where its small body and expanded pr...

Nomotettix cristatus is a North American pygmy grasshopper described by Scudder in 1863. It is commonly known as the crested pygmy grasshopper and belongs to the family Tetrigidae, whose members are also called groundhoppers. Unlike many larger grasshoppers, pygmy grasshoppers are small and are ofte...

The Arfak pygmy bandicoot is a marsupial species from Indonesia, scientifically known as Microperoryctes aplini. It was described in 2004 from the Arfak Mountains of western New Guinea, where it is associated with montane habitat. The species is distinguished by its small size within the bandicoot g...