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Native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. Scleractinia. Acerodon leucotis. Palawan flying fox. Endemic to Palawan and neighboring islands. Chiroptera. Acrocephalus sorghophilus. Streaked reed-warbler. Native to China, Taiwan, and the Philippines.
The wildlife of the Philippines includes a significant number of endemic plant and animal species. The country's surrounding waters reportedly [1] have the highest level of marine biodiversity in the world. The Philippines is one of the seventeen megadiverse countries and is a global biodiversity hotspot. In 2013, 700 of the country's 52,177 ...
The Philippine Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean east of the Philippine Archipelago (hence the name) and the largest sea in the world, occupying an estimated surface area of 5 million square kilometers (2 × 106 sq mi). [1] The Philippine Sea Plate forms the floor of the sea. [2] Its western border is the first island chain to ...
The Tubbataha Natural Park, also known as the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park (Filipino: Bahurang Tubbataha), is a protected area of the Philippines located in the middle of the Sulu Sea. The marine and bird sanctuary consists of two huge atolls (named the North Atoll and South Atoll) and the smaller Jessie Beazley Reef covering a total area of ...
JREL is The National List of Threatened Terrestrial Fauna of the Philippines, also known as the Red List, is a list of endangered species endemic in the Philippines and is maintained by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) through its Biodiversity Management Bureau and the Philippine Red List Committee.
Neritic & oceanic marine zones VU: Humpback whale: Megaptera novaeangliae Borowski, 1781: Neritic & oceanic marine zones LC: Family Phocoenidae: porpoises: Indo-Pacific finless porpoise: Neophocaena phocaenoides G. Cuvier, 1829: Coastal waters VU: Family Delphinidae: marine dolphins: Pygmy killer whale: Feresa attenuata J. E. Gray, 1874 ...
Cylindrus telatus (Reeve, 1848) Conus telatus, common name the Philippine cone, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies. [1] Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be ...
The dugong (/ ˈ d (j) uː ɡ ɒ ŋ /; Dugong dugon) is a marine mammal.It is one of four living species of the order Sirenia, which also includes three species of manatees.It is the only living representative of the once-diverse family Dugongidae; its closest modern relative, Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), was hunted to extinction in the 18th century.