Photos: B. Kästle
Copyright: MFN Berlin (www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin)
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One of the type specimens, either from Oubatche or Hienghène. Collected in 1911.
Flinders Island cave-slater Echinodillo cavaticus. The world has only two known species of the very distinctive Echinodillo cave-slaters. One is found on the Marquesas Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. This other species is known only from a small cave in southern Flinders Island, where its entire global range is measurable in square metres. We found this one during our Bush Blitz on Flinders Island in March 2014.
Last photo is the plant it was on