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This is a list of the mammal species recorded in the Dominican Republic. Of the mammal species in the Dominican Republic, one is critically endangered, one is endangered, three are vulnerable, and eight are considered to be extinct. [1] The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International ...
Pages in category "Mammals of the Dominican Republic" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Desmarest's hutia (Capromys pilorides), a member of a rodent family known only from the Caribbean.. The Caribbean region is home to a diverse and largely endemic rodent fauna. . This includes the endemic family Capromyidae (hutias), which are largely limited to the Greater Antilles, and two other groups of endemic hystricognaths, the heteropsomyines and giant hutias, including the extinct bear ...
A collaborative conservation project funded by the Darwin Initiative (UK) was started in 2009 and is researching the species to conserve it. [21] The species is fully protected by law. However, national parks in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic are threatened by deforestation and encroachment for farming and charcoal production.
Endemic reptile species include the Dominican anole (Anolis oculatus), the Dominican ground lizard (Ameiva fuscata) and the Dominica skink (Mabuya dominicana). The Dominican blind snake ( Typhlops dominicanus or T. d. dominicanus ) and the Dominican clouded boa ( Boa constrictor nebulosis ) may also be designated as endemic, though their status ...
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Dominica. Of the mammal species listed for Dominica, two are considered vulnerable and one species is classified as extinct. [1] The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:
Fauna of the Dominican Republic — the nation located on eastern Hispaniola, a large island of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean For the native fauna of western Hispaniola island, see Category: Fauna of Haiti .
The bat fauna of the Caribbean region is diverse.. For the purposes of this article, the "Caribbean" includes all islands in the Caribbean Sea (except for small islets close to the mainland) and the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Barbados, which are not in the Caribbean Sea but biogeographically belong to the same Caribbean bioregion.