Mammals

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Common Name: Large Luzon Forest Rat
Scientific Name: Bullimus luzonicus
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Distribution: Isabela, Aurora, Quezon

Common Name: Large Asian Roundleaf Bat
Scientific Name: Hipposideros lekagulI (Thonglongya & Hill, 1974)
Local Name: paniki
Distribution:
Habitat: roost in hollow trees, caves, and buildings
Diet: catch insects such as beetles, termites, and cockroaches; cicadas apparently form an important food source for some species.
Category: LOW RISK
Remarks: Hipposideros are also known as "Old World Leaf-nosed Bats".
Leaf-nosed because it's nose is shaped like a leaf.

Common Name: Large Mindanao Roundleaf Bat
Scientific Name: Hipposideros coronatus (Peters, 1871)
Local Name: paniki
Distribution: northeastern Mindanao
Habitat: roost in hollow trees, caves, and buildings
Diet:
Category: LOW RISK
Leaf-nosed because it's nose is shaped like a leaf.

Common Name: Large Mindoro Forest Mouse
Scientific Name: Apomys gracilirostris
Local Name:
Distribution: Mt. Halcon in Mindoro
Habitat: primary montane forest and natural bamboo thickets
Category: ENDANGERED

Common Name: Large Rufous Horseshoe Bat
Scientific Name: Rhinolophus rufus
Local Name:
Distribution: Polilio Islands, Marinduque, Catanduanes

Common Name: Leopard Cat
Scientific Name: Prionailurus bengalensis
Local Name:
Distribution: Northern Palawan

Common Name: Lesser Naked Bat
Scientific Name: Cheiromeles parvidens ( Miller and Holister, 1921 )
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Distribution:
Habitat
Diet:
Category: RARE
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Common Name: Little Golden-mantled Flying Fox
Scientific Name: Pteropus pumilus
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Distribution: ENDEMIC (Philippines)- Negros Island, Biliran Province, Batanes/Babuyan and Palawan

Common Name: Long-Nosed Luzon Forest Mouse
Scientific Name: Apomys sacobianus
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Distribution: ENDEMIC - Palanan in Isabela Province
Habitat: primary forest from about 200m to 1,100m
Category: ENDANGERED

Common Name: Long-tailed Macaque
Scientific Name: Macaca fascicularis
Local Name: Unggoy, Tsonggo, Matsin or Matsing (Tagalog); Bakes (Ilokano); Ayung (Cagayan);
Onggoy, Amo, Batotok, Bakulaw, Akno (Visayan); Loo Toong (Manobo); Ukay (Camarines Sur)
Distribution: found throughout the Philippines
Habitat: seacoast, mountain forest to about 1,000m in elevation
Category: LOW RISK

Common Name: Lowland Striped Shrew-Rat
Scientific Name: Chrotomys mindorensis
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Distribution: ENDEMIC - Laguna, Sto Tomas in Batangas

Common Name: Luzon Broad-toothed Rat
Scientific Name: Abditomys latidens
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Distribution: ENDEMIC - Laguna, Sto Tomas in Batangas

Common Name: Luzon Giant Bushy-tailed Cloud Rat
Scientific Name: Crateromys schadenbergi
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Distribution: Ifugao and Mountain Provinces
Diett: Feeds on tender young leaves in the forest canopy
Category: VULNERABLE

Common Name: Luzon Montane Forest Mouse
Scientific Name: Apomys datae
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Distribution: ENDEMIC - Isabela, Aurora, Quezon

Common Name: Luzon Montane Striped Shrew Rat
Scientific Name: Chrotomys whiteheadi
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Distribution: Benguet and Mountain Provinces
Habitat: mossy forst from 2300 - 2500m in the Central Cordillera
Category: VULNERABLE

Common Name: Luzon Pygmy Fruit Bat
Scientific Name: Otopteropus cartilagonodus
Local Name: Paniki, Kabag
Distribution: ENDEMIC - Cagayan Province, Makiling in Laguna, Mt. Banahaw, Abra, Aurora,
Camarines Sur, Isabela, Nueva Viscaya, and Zambales

Common Name: Luzon Short-nosed Rat
Scientific Name: Tryphomys adustus
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Distribution: ENDEMIC - Laguna, Sto Tomas in Batangas

Common Name: Luzon Shrew
Scientific Name: Crocidura grayi
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Distribution: ENDEMIC - Palanan in Isabela Province, The Sierra Madre Mountain Ranges
Habitat: lowland, montane, and mossy forest

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Common Name: Malay Civet
Scientific Name: Viverra tangalunga
Local Name: Musang
Distribution: Bohol

Common Name: Mindanao Flying Squirrel
Scientific Name: Petinomys crinitus
Local Name: Kalukag, Kalugit
Distribution: Mt. Kitanglad in Bukidnon

Common Name: Mindanao Gymnure
Scientific Name: Podogymnura truei
Local Name: Talibungkok
Distribution: Mt. Kitanglad in Bukidnon

Common Name: Mindanao Pygmy Fruit Bat
Scientific Name: Alionycteris paucidentata
Local Name:
Distribution: ENDEMIC - Mt. Kitanglad and Mt Kalatungan in Bukidnon

Common Name: Mindanao Spiny Rat
Scientific Name: Tarsomys echinatus
Local Name:
Distribution: Bukidnon and South Cotabato
Category: ENDANGERED

Common Name: Mindanao Tree Shrew
Scientific Name: Urogale everetti
Local Name: Salumbakutin
Distribution: Mt. Kitanglad in Bukidnon

Common Name: Mindoro Climbing Rat
Scientific Name: Anonymomys mindorensis
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Distribution: ENDEMIC - known only from Ilong Peak, Halcon Range in Mindoro

Common Name: Mindoro Pallid Flying Fox
Scientific Name: Pteropus sp. a
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Distribution: ENDEMIC - Mindoro

Common Name: Mindoro Soft-furred Rat
Scientific Name: Rattus mindorensis
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Distribution: Mindoro
Habitat: Forest at 1000 - 1500m
Category: VULNERABLE

Common Name: Mottle-winged Flying Fox
Scientific Name: Pteropus leucopterus
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Distribution: Catanduanes

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Common Name: Negros Naked-backed Fruit Bat
Scientific Name: Dobsonia chapmani (Rabor, 1952)
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Distribution: ENDEMIC - Negros Island, Cebu
Remarks: Once considered as "EXTINCT" but at around year 2000, the specie was rediscovered in the island of Cebu.

Common Name: Negros Shrew
Scientific Name: Crocidura negrina
Local Name:
Distribution: ENDEMIC - Negros Island
Category: CRITICALLY ENDANGERED

Common Name: Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rat
Scientific Name: Phloeomys pallidus
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Distribution: ENDEMIC - Balbalan in Kalinga Apayao, Bataan, Zambales, Batangas

Common Name: Northern Luzon Cloud Rat
Scientific Name: Phloemys pallidus
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Distribution: ENDEMIC - Cagayan Province

Common Name: Northern Luzon Shrew-Mouse
Scientific Name: Crunomys fallax
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Distribution: Cagayan Province

Common Name: Northern Palawan Tree Squirrel
Scientific Name: Sundasciurus juvencus
Local Name:
Distribution: Palawan
Habitat: primary and secondary lowland forest of central (north of Abo-abo) and northern Palawan Island only
Category: ENDANGERED

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Common Name: Oriental Small Clawed Otter
Scientific Name: Amblonyx cinereus
Local Name: Dingguin (Palawan), Pangat-pangatan, Pangkat-pangkatan
Distribution: Palawan
Habitat: rivers, creeks, estuaries, and costal waters


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