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The National List of Threatened Terrestrial Fauna of the Philippines, also known as the Red List, is a list of endangered species endemic to 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.
The Baikal seal is endemic to Lake Baikal. Lake Baikal is rich in biodiversity. It hosts more than 1,000 species of plants and 2,500 species of animals based on current knowledge, but the actual figures for both groups are believed to be significantly higher. [27] [34] More than 80% of the animals are endemic. [34]
This is a list of threatened plant and animal species in the Philippines as classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). It includes vulnerable (VU), endangered (EN), critically endangered (CR), and recently extinct (EX) species.
The entire subfamily is endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia. [4] Sculpins of this subfamily mostly live in deep water, below 170 m (560 ft). [2] There are 24 known species in seven genera. [2] [3] These include, for instance, Abyssocottus korotneffi and Cottinella boulengeri which are among the deepest-living freshwater fish. [5]
Several species of reptiles and amphibians remains undescribed. The Philippines also has 50–60 endemic Platymantis frog species, making it by far the most diverse genus of amphibians in the archipelago. [8] The endemic freshwater crocodile Crocodylus mindorensis is critically endangered and is considered the most threatened crocodilian in the ...
Epischurella baikalensis (previously Epischura baikalensis [2]) is a species of copepod in family Temoridae. It is endemic to Lake Baikal, being the dominant zooplankton species there: 80%–90% of total biomass. [3] It measures 1.5–2 mm (0.06–0.08 in). [1]
Thymallus baicalensis, also known as the Baikal black grayling, is a Siberian freshwater fish species in the salmon family Salmonidae. Thymallus baicalensis occurs in Lake Baikal , in the inflowing Selenga River and throughout the major Enisei River drainage, and also some eastern tributaries of the Ob River .
While the Baikal Seal is the only unique species of pinniped to live in a purely freshwater environment for the duration of their lives, various species of typically saltwater seals may occasionally frequent freshwater environments or include isolated populations in near coastal freshwater lakes. A Ladoga seal laying on ice in Lake Ladoga