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Hydrosaurus pustulatus, or the Philippine sailfin lizard or Philippine sailfin dragon, is a large, semiaquatic species of agamid lizard that is endemic to all of the major island groups of the Philippines (with the exception of a few, including Palawan).[1]

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  1. 67 relations: ABS-CBN, Agamidae, Americas, Aquaculture, Arboreal locomotion, Aurora (province), Baltic Germans, Basiliscus (lizard), Bicol Region, Bisayan languages, Black market, Bohol, Brackish water, Bristol Zoo, Camiguin, Captivity (animal), Cebu City, Davao City, Dinagat Islands, Endangered species, Endemism, Habitat destruction, Helsinki, Hydrosaurus, Iguana, Indonesia, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Least-concern species, Leyte, List of protected areas of the Philippines, Lizard, Luzon, Mangrove, Mangrove forest, Manila, Mindanao, Mindoro, Mudflat, National Museum of the Philippines, Natural history, Negros, Palawan, Palawan (island), Panay, Papua New Guinea, Philippine sailfin lizard, Philippines, Poaching, Polillo Islands, ... Expand index (17 more) »

  2. Hydrosaurus
  3. Reptiles described in 1829
  4. Taxa named by Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz

ABS-CBN

ABS-CBN (an initialism of its two predecessors' names, Alto Broadcasting System and Chronicle Broadcasting Network) was a Philippine commercial broadcast network that served as the flagship property of the ABS-CBN Corporation, a company under Lopez Holdings Corporation owned by the López family.

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Agamidae

Agamidae is a family of over 550 species of iguanian lizards indigenous to Africa, Asia, Australia, and a few in Southern Europe.

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Americas

The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.

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Aquaculture

Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture), also known as aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation ("farming") of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. lotus).

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Arboreal locomotion

Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees.

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Aurora (province)

Aurora, officially the Province of Aurora (Lalawigan ng Aurora; Probinsia ti Aurora), is a province in the Philippines located in the eastern part of Central Luzon region, facing the Philippine Sea.

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Baltic Germans

Baltic Germans (Deutsch-Balten or Deutschbalten, later BaltendeutscheАндреева Н. С.2001. Кто такие «остзейцы»? (pp 173-175). Вопросы истории. No 10 173—175-->) are ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia.

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Basiliscus (lizard)

Basiliscus is a genus of large corytophanid lizards, commonly known as basilisks, which are endemic to southern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America.

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Bicol Region

The Bicol Region, commonly shortened to Bicol and designated as Region V, is an administrative region of the Philippines.

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Bisayan languages

The Bisayan languages or Visayan languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken in the Philippines.

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Black market

A black market, underground economy, or shadow economy is a clandestine market or series of transactions that has some aspect of illegality or is not compliant with an institutional set of rules.

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Bohol

Bohol, officially the Province of Bohol (Lalawigan sa Bohol; Kapuoran sang Bohol; Lalawigan ng Bohol), is an island province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region, consisting of the island itself and 75 minor surrounding islands.

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Brackish water

Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater.

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Bristol Zoo

Bristol Zoo was a zoo in the city of Bristol in South West England.

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Camiguin

Camiguin, officially the Province of Camiguin (Probinsya sa Camiguin; Lalawigan ng Camiguin; Kamigin: Probinsya ta Kamigin), is an island province in the Philippines located in the Bohol Sea, about off the northern coast of mainland Mindanao.

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Captivity (animal)

Animal captivity is the confinement of domestic and wild animals.

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Cebu City

Cebu City, officially the City of Cebu (Dakbayan sa Sugbo; Dakbanwa sang Cebu; Lungsod ng Cebu), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines.

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Davao City

Davao City, officially the City of Davao (Dakbayan sa Dabaw; Dakbanwa sang Davao; Lungsod ng Dabaw), is a highly urbanized city in the Davao Region, Philippines.

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Dinagat Islands

Dinagat Islands (Cebuano: Mga Pulo sa Dinagat; Surigaonon: Mga Puyo nan Dinagat; Kabalian: Mga Puyo san Dinagat; Waray: Mga Purô han Dinagat; Filipino: Mga Islang Dinagat), officially the Province of Dinagat Islands, is an island province in the Caraga region of the Philippines, located on the south side of Leyte Gulf.

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Endangered species

An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Habitat destruction

Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species.

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Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland.

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Hydrosaurus

Hydrosaurus, commonly known as the sailfin dragons or sailfin lizards, is a genus in the family Agamidae.

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Iguana

Iguana is a genus of herbivorous lizards that are native to tropical areas of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz

Johann Friedrich Gustav von Eschscholtz (1 November 1793 – 7 May 1831)Sterling (1997) was a Baltic German physician, naturalist, and entomologist.

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Least-concern species

A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of wildlife conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild.

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Leyte

Leyte is an island in the Visayas group of islands in the Philippines.

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List of protected areas of the Philippines

In the Philippines, Protected Areas are administered by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)'s Biodiversity Management Bureau under the National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS) Act of 1992.

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Lizard

Lizard is the common name used for all squamate reptiles other than snakes (and to a lesser extent amphisbaenians), encompassing over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.

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Luzon

Luzon is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Mangrove forest

Mangrove forests, also called mangrove swamps, mangrove thickets or mangals, are productive wetlands that occur in coastal intertidal zones.

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Manila

Manila (Maynila), officially the City of Manila (Lungsod ng Maynila), is the capital and second-most-populous city of the Philippines after Quezon City.

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Mindanao

Mindanao 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.

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Mindoro

Mindoro is the seventh largest and eighth-most populous island in the Philippines.

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Mudflat

Mudflats or mud flats, also known as tidal flats or, in Ireland, slob or slobs, are coastal wetlands that form in intertidal areas where sediments have been deposited by tides or rivers.

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National Museum of the Philippines

The National Museum of the Philippines (Pambansang Museo ng Pilipinas) is an umbrella government organization that oversees a number of national museums in the Philippines including ethnographic, anthropological, archaeological, and visual arts collections.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Negros

Negros, is the fourth largest and third most populous island in the Philippines, with a total land area of.

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Palawan

Palawan, officially the Province of Palawan (Probinsya i'ang Palawan; Lalawigan ng Palawan), is an archipelagic province of the Philippines that is located in the region of Mimaropa.

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Palawan (island)

Palawan is the largest island of the province of Palawan in the Philippines and fifth-largest by area and tenth-most populous island of the country, with a total population of 994,101 as of 2020 census.

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Panay

Panay is the sixth-largest and fourth-most populous island in the Philippines, with a total land area of and a total population of 4,542,926, as of 2020 census.

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Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia (a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia).

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Philippine sailfin lizard

Hydrosaurus pustulatus, or the Philippine sailfin lizard or Philippine sailfin dragon, is a large, semiaquatic species of agamid lizard that is endemic to all of the major island groups of the Philippines (with the exception of a few, including Palawan). Philippine sailfin lizard and Philippine sailfin lizard are endemic fauna of the Philippines, Hydrosaurus, reptiles described in 1829, reptiles of the Philippines and Taxa named by Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Poaching

Poaching is the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights.

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Polillo Islands

The Polillo Islands is a group of about 27 islands in the Philippine Sea lying about to the east of the Philippine island of Luzon.

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Puerto Princesa

Puerto Princesa, officially the City of Puerto Princesa (Cuyonon: Siyudad i'ang Puerto Princesa; Lungsod ng Puerto Princesa), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Mimaropa region of the Philippines.

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River

A river is a natural flowing freshwater stream, flowing on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river.

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Romblon

Romblon, officially the Province of Romblon, is an archipelagic province of the Philippines located in the Mimaropa region.

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Romblon, Romblon

Romblon, officially the Municipality of Romblon, is a 3rd class municipality and capital of the province of Romblon, Philippines.

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Rudder

A rudder is a primary control surface used to steer a ship, boat, submarine, hovercraft, airship, or other vehicle that moves through a fluid medium (usually air or water).

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Samar

Samar is the third-largest and seventh-most populous island in the Philippines, with a total population of 1,909,537 as of the 2020 census.

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San Diego Zoo

The San Diego Zoo is a zoo in San Diego, California, housing over 12,000 animals of more than 680 species and subspecies on of Balboa Park.

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Semiaquatic

In biology, being semi-aquatic refers to various macroorganisms that live regularly in both aquatic and terrestrial environments.

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Shrub

A shrub or bush is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant.

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Sibuyan Island

Sibuyan is a crescent-shaped island, the second largest in an archipelago comprising Romblon Province, Philippines.

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Tablas Island

Tablas is the largest of the islands that comprise the province of Romblon in the Philippines.

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Tagalog language

Tagalog (Baybayin) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as a second language by the majority.

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Tropicario

Tropicario is a Finnish public aquarium, that was previously located in Hämeenlinna, Finland; due to the lack of visitors the park relocated to Helsinki, Finland in February 2007.

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Tropics

The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator.

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Urban planning

Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning in specific contexts, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks, and their accessibility.

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Zamboanga Peninsula

Zamboanga Peninsula (Lawis sa Zamboanga.; Peninsula de Zamboanga; Tangway ng Zamboanga) is an administrative region in the Philippines, designated as Region IX.

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See also

Hydrosaurus

Reptiles described in 1829

Taxa named by Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_sailfin_lizard

Also known as Hydrosaurus pustulatus.

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