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Cattle egret
Cattle egret (Western Cattle-Egret, Ardea ibis; formerly Bubulcus ibis): small stocky white heron that forages beside cattle for insects; split from Eastern Cattle-Egret in 2023; spread naturally from Africa to the Americas and beyond.
Checkered keelback
Checkered keelback (Fowlea piscator, formerly Xenochrophis piscator), also called Asiatic water snake: a common semi-aquatic South and Southeast Asian natricine snake with keeled scales, a checkered spot pattern, frog-and-fish diet, and disputed mild venom status.
European eel
European eel (Anguilla anguilla), a catadromous fish spawning in the Sargasso Sea; critically endangered with 90-95% recruitment decline since the 1980s, subject to EU closures and ICES zero-catch advice.
Hoplobatrachus tigerinus
Hoplobatrachus tigerinus, the Indian bullfrog (formerly Rana tigerina), is a large dicroglossid frog native to South Asian wetlands, Least Concern by IUCN, CITES Appendix II since 1985, and invasive in the Andamans, Madagascar, and Maldives.
Mudskipper
Mudskippers are amphibious gobies (Oxudercidae, Oxudercinae), about 34-45 species of Indo-West Pacific and West African mudflat fish that breathe air through skin, walk on pectoral fins, and brood eggs in air-filled burrows.
Muraenidae
Muraenidae, the moray eels, is a family of Anguilliformes eels with about 200-227 species in 15-16 genera, two subfamilies (Muraeninae, Uropterygiinae), tropical reef predators with raptorial pharyngeal jaws.
North American beaver
The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is the continent's largest rodent, a keystone ecosystem engineer that builds dams and lodges, was nearly exterminated by the fur trade, and is invasive in parts of Eurasia.
Sandhill crane
Sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis, Grus canadensis): abundant North American crane with six subspecies, three migratory and three non-migratory; Mid-Continent Population about 1.06 million, staging on the Platte River.
Shoebill
Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex), also called whale-headed stork, a Vulnerable solitary African swamp bird, sole member of Balaenicipitidae, related to pelicans and hamerkop, hunting lungfish with a foot-long bill.
Walking catfish
Walking catfish (Clarias batrachus), also called magur, is a Southeast Asian air-breathing catfish that moves overland using pectoral fins. Established in Florida since the 1960s, listed as injurious wildlife under the Lacey Act since 1970.