A biodiversity resource assessment conducted in Southern Leyte by Faunal and Flora International in November 2011 become the way to discover a two new species of frogs belonging to the genus Platymantis.
According to the article that was released just this March 2015, both species differ markedly from other known species of Platymantis here in the Philippines(Platymantisguentheri Group and Platymantishazelae Group) with theri body structures, colorations and advertisement calls. However, this is the first time that a Platymantis species belonging to the hazelae group has been discovered in Mindanao faunal region, of which the island of Leyte belongs to.
Moreover, the surveys in Southern Leyte Province (covering the municipalities of Silago, Hinunangan, Sogod, Maasin, Tomas Oppus and Malitbog) recorded a total of 229 floral species (31 of which are unique to the Philippines) and 212 terrestrial vertebrates species, comprising 112 species of birds (41 species are unique to Philippines; 11 of which are threatened to extinction), 36 species of mammals (17 species are unique to the Philippines) and 64 species of amphibians and reptiles (more than half of which are found only in the Philippines).
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