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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 hornbill is a species of hornbill in the family Bucerotidae. It is found in forests on the islands of Samar, Calicoan, Leyte and Bohol in the east-central Philippines. As is the case with all Philippine tarictic hornbills, it has been considered a subspecies of P. panini. Alternatively, it is considered a subspecies of P. affinis.
The slender-billed crow is a Passerine bird of the family Corvidae, in the genus Corvus. The violet crow has been found to be distinct genetically and separated as Corvus violaceus. The small crow has been split as Corvus samarensis and the Palawan crow has also been split as Corvus pusillus.
Eurylaimus is a genus of broadbills found in Southeast Asia. The name means ‘broad throat’, from the Greek eurus and laimos.
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 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.
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.
Mimosybra is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species:
Acalolepta samarensis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1927. It is known from the Philippines.
Metaperiaptodes granulatus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1908. It is known from Papua New Guinea.
Mispila samarensis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1939.
Mitrephora samarensis is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to the Philippines. Elmer Drew Merrill, the American botanist who first formally described the species, named it after Samar, the third largest island in the Philippines, where the sample he examined was collected.
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.
Brasidas samarensis is stick insect species from the family Heteropterygidae. Occasionally it is named Samar stick insect according to their origin. In addition is the type species of the genus Brasidas, which was named after the Spartan officer Brasidas.
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- ↑ BioLib.cz - Metaperiaptodes samarensis. Retrieved on 8 September 2014.