The yellow-breasted tailorbird is a species of passerine bird formerly placed in the "Old World warbler" assemblage, but now placed in the family Cisticolidae.
The Samar squirrel is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It was historically known as lalagsing. It is endemic to the Philippines, where it has been recorded from Samar and Leyte Islands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss, due to expanding human activities, hunting, and the lack of basic knowledge about the species. They thrive in primary and secondary lowland and montane forest, including the lower edges of mossy forest. It is also found in some agricultural areas.
Hopea samarensis is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. It is endemic to the Philippines.
Horsfieldia samarensis is a species of plant in the family Myristicaceae. It is endemic to the Philippines.
The yellow-headed water monitor, also commonly known as Cuming's water monitor, the Mindanao water monitor, and the Philippine water monitor, is a large species of monitor lizard in the family Varanidae. The species is endemic to the Philippines. It thrives in mangrove, forest and water margins in tropical refuges, where it feeds on birds, fishes, mammals, and carrion.
The Samar cobra also called Peters' cobra, southern Philippine cobra or Visayan cobra, is a highly venomous species of spitting cobra native to the Visayas and Mindanao island groups of the Philippines.
Acalolepta is a genus of flat-faced longhorns beetle belonging to the family Cerambycidae, subfamily Lamiinae. Its members are found in the Indomalayan realm.
Qantas is a genus of trematosauroid temnospondyl from the Early Triassic. Fossils have been found from the Kamennyi Yar Formation in Borsky District, Samara Oblast. The type species Qantas samarensis was named in 2012 and placed in the family Benthosuchidae, as it was viewed as a close relative of Benthosuchus. The subfamily Qantasinae was established to include Qantas, and possibly the genus Tirraturhinus. Qantas is named after the Australian airline Qantas, which supported the original study of the fossils.
Trematosuchoides is an extinct genus of trematosaurid temnospondyl.
Allotinus samarensis is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It was described by John Nevill Eliot in 1986. It is found in the Philippines.
The Visayan blue fantail is a species of bird in the family Rhipiduridae.
Acalolepta permutans is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe in 1857, originally under the genus Monohammus. It is known from Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, and China. It feeds on Albizia julibrissin.
Acalolepta montana is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1916. It is known from Sulawesi.
Acalolepta flocculata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Gressitt in 1935. It is known from Taiwan and China.
Acalolepta fraudatrix is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Henry Walter Bates in 1873. It is known from Korea, Japan, China, and Russia.
Acalolepta rusticatrix is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1801, originally under the genus Lamia. It is known from Myanmar, India, the Philippines, Malaysia, Sumatra, Sri Lanka, Java, Taiwan, Indonesia, Sulawesi, and Vietnam.
Acalolepta sejuncta is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Henry Walter Bates in 1873. It is known from Japan.
Brown's short-legged skink is a species of skink endemic to the Philippines.
The small crow is a passerine bird in the genus Corvus of the family Corvidae. It was previously considered a subspecies of the slender-billed crow, but phylogenetic evidence indicates that both are distinct species, and it has thus been split by the International Ornithologists' Union.
