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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 .
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 ...
On each island, a distinct genus with two species has been found, but all are now extinct. A fourth genus, Puertoricomys, is known from an older, perhaps Pliocene, deposit on Puerto Rico. [9] These animals exhibited characters intermediate between hutias and spiny rats and have sometimes been treated as a subfamily of the Capromyidae. [10]
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This is a list of amphibians found in the Dominican Republic. There is a total of 47 amphibian species recorded in the Dominican Republic. This list is derived from the database listing of AmphibiaWeb. [1]
The list of Dominican land gastropods contains 43 [2] [3] species, making it one of the richest known faunas of land snails and slugs in the Lesser Antilles. [3] Of these, 16 species (38%) are endemic to the island. [3] The endemic species of Dominican gastropods are mainly found on the leeward (or Caribbean Sea) side of the island. [3]
Saona is the Dominican Republic's most important site for sea turtle nesting. [5] The site is threatened by climate change and coastal flooding. [13] In the surrounding Caribbean Sea, 40 species of fish, 10 coral, and 124 mollusks can be found, [12] with other marine life including green sea turtles, loggerhead sea turtles, manatees, bottlenose ...
The Hispaniolan slider (Trachemys decorata) or Haitian slider is a species of turtle in the family Emydidae found on the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic). [ 1 ] Habitat