SPECIES
FOUND IN DINAGAT ISLANDS
- · Dinagat tarsiers
Meet the Dinagat tarsier, the newest
Philippine tarsier species.
The University of the Philippines
announced this following genetic tests by a multi-country team of scientists.
"The tarsier found on Dinagat
Island is distinct from its relatives in the Bohol-Samar-Leyte and
Zamboanga-Mindanao phylogeographic clusters,"the university said on its
website
Citing an examination of mitochondrial
data, the researchers found "definitive evidence" that the Dinagat
tarsier is a different species.
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