Brown Sailor Spider

Brown Sailor Spider (Neoscona nautica)
St. John’s Island, 27th May 2013

• A Guide to Common Singapore Spiders
• A checklist of spiders from Singapore (Arachnida: Araneae)
• BugGuide
• The Orb Weaver Genus Neoscona in North America (Araneae: Araneidae)
• American Neoscona and Corrections to Previous Revisions of Neotropical Orb-Weavers (Araneae: Araneidae)

Short-banded Sailor

Short-banded Sailor (Phaedyma columella singa)
Pasir Ris, 20th April 2013

EDIT: Many thanks to Khew Sin Khoon from ButterflyCircle for correcting my original (mis)identification; I initially thought that this was a Grey Sailor (Neptis leucoporos cresina).

• Butterfly Circle
• Butterflies of Singapore: Life History of the Short Banded Sailor (Phaedyma columella singa)
• NParks Fauna&FloraWeb
• The Native Fauna of the Native Garden @ HortPark: Birds, Fishes, Amphibians, Reptiles, Butterflies, Moths, Damselflies, and Dragonflies
• WETlands: List of Butterfly Species observed at Sungei Buloh Nature Park (1999-2000)
• Samuibutterflies.com
• A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China
• India Biodiversity Portal

Bigfin Reef Squid

Bigfin Reef Squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana)
Tanah Merah, 28th April 2012

• Wild Fact Sheets
• The Tide Chaser: Cephalopods (Phyllum Mollusca: Class Cephalopoda) of Singapore
• SeaLifeBase
• Tree of Life Web Project
• Animal Diversity Web
• Genetic evidence that the northern calamary, Sepioteuthis lessoniana, is a species complex in Australian waters
• Genetic Diversity and Genetic Heterogeneity of Bigfin Reef Squid “Sepioteuthis lessoniana” Species Complex in Northwestern Pacific Ocean
• Low Genetic Diversity of Oval Squid, Sepioteuthis cf. lessoniana (Cephalopoda: Loliginidae), in Japanese Waters Inferred from a Mitochondrial DNA Non-coding Region
• Phylogeography of Sepioteuthis lessoniana (the
  bigfin reef squid) and Uroteuthis duvauceli (the Indian squid)
• Description of the first Lessepsian squid migrant, Sepioteuthis lessoniana (CEPHALOPODA: Loliginidae), in the Aegean Sea (Eastern Mediterranean)

Oriental River Prawn

Oriental River Prawn (Macrobrachium nipponense)
Tampines, 12th May 2013

There is a thriving population of Oriental River Prawn, a non-native freshwater crustacean, in Tampines Quarry Lake. Several were collected as juveniles and subsequently raised to maturity in captive conditions. This adult survived in an aquarium for some time, but died from unknown causes after being transferred to another tank.

• Presence of the Japanese Freshwater Prawn Macrobrachium nipponense (De Haan, 1849) (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) in Singapore
• The invasion of Macrobrachium nipponense (De Haan, 1849) (Caridea: Palaemonidae) into the Southern Iraqi Marshes
• The establishment of the Oriental River Prawn, Macrobrachium nipponense (de Haan, 1849) in Anzali Lagoon, Iran
• Reexamination of the Diagnostic Characters of Two Freshwater Palaemonid Prawns, Macrobrachium nipponense (De Haan, 1849) and M. formosense Bate, 1868 (Decapoda, Caridea) from Japan