Cooksonia is an extinct grouping of primitive land plants. The earliest Cooksonia date from the middle of the Silurian ; the group continued to be an important component of the flora until the end of the Early Devonian, a total time span of 433 to 393 million years ago. While Cooksonia fossils are distributed globally, most type specimens come from Britain, where they were first discovered in 1937. Cooksonia includes the oldest known plant to have a stem with vascular tissue and is thus a transitional form between the primitive non-vascular bryophytes and the vascular plants.
The south Melanesian cuckooshrike is an uncommon species of bird in the cuckooshrike family. It is found in New Caledonia, Bougainville Island, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. The species is a large (32–37 cm) cuckoo-shrike with a long square tail and all over dark grey plumage. The eye of adults is yellow, whereas that of the juvenile is dark. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
The Melanesian flycatcher is a species of bird in the monarch-flycatcher family Monarchidae. The species is found on islands in Melanesia.
The New Caledonian myzomela is a species of bird in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. The species is sometimes considered to be conspecific with the scarlet myzomela of Australia.
Scaliola caledonica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Scaliolidae.
Scaliola is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Scaliolidae.
Diminovula caledonica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries.
Aberlemnia is a genus of extinct vascular plants of the Early Devonian, which consisted of leafless stems with terminal spore-forming organs (sporangia). Fossils found in Scotland were initially described as Cooksonia caledonica. A later review, which included new and more complete fossils from Brazil, showed that the specimens did not fit the circumscription of the genus Cooksonia; accordingly a new genus Aberlemnia was proposed.
Caledonica is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following species:
Leucorhynchia caledonica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae.
Halystina caledonica is a species of extremely small deep water sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Seguenziidae.
The New Caledonian whistler is a species of bird in the family Pachycephalidae. It is endemic to New Caledonia.
Mesosini is a tribe of longhorn beetles of the Lamiinae subfamily.
Paracoptops is a genus of longhorn beetles of the subfamily Lamiinae, containing the following species:
Paracoptops basalis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe in 1865, originally under the genus Agelasta.
Paracoptops djampeanus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1960. It is known from Sulawesi.
Paracoptops isabellae is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Gilmour in 1947. It is known from Sulawesi.
Paracoptops papuana is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1939.
Paracoptops toxopoei is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1926.
Pterolophia caledonica is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1976.
