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The Mindanao lorikeet or Mount Apo lorikeet (Saudareos johnstoniae) is a species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae. Its natural habitat is tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss and trapping for the illegal wildlife trade. IUCN estimates the population to be as low as 1,500 individuals with it going locally extinct ...
Mindanao (/ ˌ m ɪ n d ə ˈ n aʊ / ⓘ MIN-də-NOW) is the second-largest island in the Philippines, after Luzon, and seventh-most populous island in the world. Located in the southern region of the archipelago, the island is part of an island group of the same name that also includes its adjacent islands, notably the Sulu Archipelago.
Mindanao hairy-tailed rat. Mindanao horned frog. Mindanao lowland forest mouse. Mindanao montane forest mouse. Mindanao mountain rat. Mindanao pygmy fruit bat. Mindanao rasbora. Mindanao shrew. Mindanao shrew-rat.
Native to Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines Chiroptera: Megaptera novaeangliae: Humpback whale Balyena Global, stable presence in northern Luzon [4] Cetacea: Megophrys stejnegeri: Mindanao horned frog Endemic to Basilan, Biliran, Bohol, Dinagat, Leyte, Samar, and Mindanao: Anura: Millepora foveolata: Native to the western Pacific Ocean ...
Tarsius spectrumgurskyae. Tarsius supriatnai. Tarsius niemitzi. Tarsius is a genus of tarsiers, small primates native to islands of Southeast Asia. Until 2010, all tarsier species were typically assigned to this genus, but a revision of the family Tarsiidae restored the generic status of Cephalopachus and created a new genus Carlito. [ 1]
The Mindanao hornbill (Penelopides affinis), also known as the Mindanao tarictic hornbill, is a medium-small species of hornbill found in the canopy of rainforests on Mindanao, Dinagat, Siargao and Basilan in the southern Philippines. All five Philippine tarictics we're once considered a single species.
Flora do not follow the Wallace Line to the same extent as fauna, since their colonization events differ in their ability to spread across bodies of water. One genus of plants that does not cross the line is the Australasian genus Eucalyptus, except for one species, E. deglupta, which naturally occurs on the island of Mindanao in the ...
Fauna of Indonesia. The Sumatran tiger, the smallest tiger subspecies, is only found in Indonesia. The fauna of Indonesia is characterised by high levels of biodiversity and endemicity due to its distribution over a vast tropical archipelago. [1] Indonesia divides into two ecological regions; western Indonesia which is more influenced by Asian ...