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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 .
"The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Mammals of Dominican Republic". IUCN. 2001 dead link ] "Mammal Species of the World". Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. 2005. Archived from the original on 27 April 2007 "Animal Diversity Web". University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. 1995–2006
Pages in category "Endemic fauna of the Dominican Republic" The following 89 pages are in this category, out of 89 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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 ...
Cyclura ricordii, also known as Ricord's ground iguana or Ricord's rock iguana, is an endangered species of medium-sized rock iguana, a large herbivorous lizard.It is endemic to the island of Hispaniola (in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
The Dominican national park system includes: urban parks and recreational areas. nature reserves — protecting the country's natural habitats, flora, and fauna. zoological & botanical gardens — protecting the country's flora and fauna.
No more information was known other than a relation to the Cuban solenodon (Atopogale cubana) discovered in 1861, and it was believed to be extinct. Addison Emery Verrill and Alpheus Hyatt Verrill rediscovered the animal in the Dominican Republic in 1907, but by 1964 it was again believed extinct. [5]
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.