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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 ...
The avifauna of the Dominican Republic included a total of 322 species as of June 2023, according to Bird Checklists of the World (Avibase). [1] Of them, 14 have been introduced by humans and 81 are rare or accidental. One is endemic and an additional 28 species are endemic to the island of Hispaniola Two additional accidental species have been ...
Category. : Fauna of the Dominican Republic. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Animals of the Dominican Republic. Fauna of the Dominican Republic — the nation located on eastern Hispaniola, a large island of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean.
Los Haitises National Park is a national park located on the remote northeast coast of the Dominican Republic that was established in 1976. It consists of a limestone karst plateau with conical hills, sinkholes and caverns, and there is a large area of mangrove forest on the coast. Other parts of the park are clad in subtropical humid forest ...
On Cabritos Island of Enriquillo Lake, in the southwestern Dominican Republic near the border with Haiti. Jaragua National Park. Jaragua National Park (Parque Nacional Jaragua) In the southwestern Dominican Republic, with 130 different bird species, and 4,500-year-old Taino pictographs.
A unique and diverse albeit phylogenetically restricted mammal fauna [note 1] is known from the Caribbean region. The region—specifically, all islands in the Caribbean Sea (except for small islets close to the continental 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—has ...
Aerial picture of coastal Cotubanamá National Park, displaying the Catuano Straight and Saona Island. Cotubanamá National Park (formerly Parque Nacional del Este) is located on the lower southeastern coast of the Dominican Republic, spanning across the provinces of La Altagracia and La Romana with an area of 791.9 sq. kilometers which includes a range of dense humid and dry subtropical ...
The Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus), also known as the agouta, [3] is a small, furry, shrew-like mammal endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (in the Dominican Republic and Haiti). Like other solenodons, it is a venomous, insect-eating animal that lives in burrows and is active at night. It is an elusive animal and was only ...