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List of cetaceans. Cetacea is an infraorder that comprises the 94 species of whales, dolphins, and porpoises. It is divided into toothed whales (Odontoceti) and baleen whales (Mysticeti), which diverged from each other in the Eocene some 50 million years ago (mya). Cetaceans are descended from land-dwelling hoofed mammals, and the now extinct ...
Common minke whale: Balaenoptera acutorostrata Lacépède, 1804: Neritic & oceanic marine zones LC Unknown: Sei whale: Balaenoptera borealis Lesson, 1828: Neritic & oceanic marine zones EN: Bryde's whale: Balaenoptera edeni Anderson, 1879: Neritic & oceanic marine zones LC Unknown: Blue whale: Balaenoptera musculus Linnaeus, 1758: Neritic ...
This is a list of threatened plant and animal species in the Philippines as classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). It includes vulnerable (VU), endangered (EN), critically endangered (CR), and recently extinct (EX) species. It excludes near threatened (NT), data deficient (DD), and prehistoric species. [1]
The following list sorts countries by the total market capitalization of all domestic companies [clarification needed] listed in the country, according to data from the World Bank. Market capitalization, commonly called market cap, is the market value of a publicly traded company's outstanding shares. [1]
Pepsi Philippines. Petron Corporation. Philippine Airlines. Philippine Bank of Communications. Philippine Business Bank. Philippine Communications Satellite Corporation. Philippine Dealing Exchange. Philippine National Bank. Philippine National Construction Corporation.
The Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc. ( Filipino: Pamilihang Sapi ng Pilipinas; PSE : PSE) is the national stock exchange of the Philippines. The exchange was created in 1992 from the merger of the Manila Stock Exchange and the Makati Stock Exchange. Including previous forms, the exchange has been in operation since 1927.
The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is an international environmental agreement aimed at the "proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry". [2] It governs the commercial, scientific, and aboriginal subsistence whaling practices of 88 member nations.
Zoysia matrella (L.) Merr., commonly known as Manila grass, is a species of mat-forming, perennial grass native to temperate coastal southeastern Asia and northern Australasia, from southern Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Taiwan, and southern China (Guangdong, Hainan) south through Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines to northern Australia (northeast Queensland), and west to the Cocos ...