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Looking for more information about a particular animal? How it looks, where it comes from, and its habitats in Singapore?  

Seeking background on the efforts undertaken by NParks and other organizations to conserve our indigenous fauna, assess their populations and improve their status?  

Welcome to NParks FaunaWeb - the online animal-reference database. This steadily accumulating guide offers information and photographs on a wide selection of animals, and aims to include up-to-date facts based on your contributions.

Feature Animal

Yellow-banded Clubtail
Merogomphus femoralis

A spectacular dragonfly answering to the description of this species has been seen twice in the Central Nature Reserves, in 2007 and 2008. Merogomphus femoralis is otherwise known only from a single specimen collected more than 80 years ago in Peninsula Malaysia, so the identification still has to be confirmed. It is a big dragonfly, frequenting the forest and forest edge. Since it is such a rarity, it has to be considered critically endangered, at least until we know more about it.