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Investigación : primer reporte en República Dominicana del murciélago Tonatia silvicola (murciélago de orejas redondas)
(2011)
Provincia Samaná, municipio: Sánchez. Lugar del encuentro: casa deshabitada con ambiente en penumbras. Hora: 9:31 a.m. Especímenes colgados del techo. Orejas redondas. Agrupados. La especie de este género en República ...
Prioridades de conservación del Corredor Biológico en el Caribe : Solenodontes
(2023)
El Solenodonte de la Española (Solenodon paradoxus) junto al Solenodonte cubano o almiquí (Solenodon cubanus), son sobrevivientes de una fauna diversa de mamíferos terrestres que existía en tiempos históricos remotos. ...
Prioridades de conservación del Corredor Biológico en el Caribe : Iguana de Ricord
(2022)
Amenazada por la cacería, el comercio ilegal, la degradación y la introducción de especies exóticas en su hábitat, la Iguana de Ricord está en peligro crítico de extinción. Su población estimada es de 2,000 a 4,000 ...
A new species of extinct Late Quaternary giant tortoise from Hispaniola
(2017)
Insular giant tortoise diversity has been depleted by Late Quaternary extinctions, but the taxonomic status of many extinct populations remains poorly understood due to limited available fossil or subfossil material, ...
Human and hutia (Isolobodon portoricensis) interactions in pre-Columbian Hispaniola : the isotopic and morphological evidence
(2021)
Highlights: Bone collagen carbon (∂13C) values of some hutia suggest commensal diets with humans. Raised carbon (∂13C) values suggest that some hutia consumed C4 plants, likely maize. There is no evidence suggesting hutia ...
Independent evolutionary histories in allopatric populations of a threatened Caribbean land mammal
(2016)
Aim: To determine the evolutionary history, relationships and distinctiveness of allopatric populations of Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus), a highly threatened Caribbean ‘relict’ mammal, to understand spatio-temporal ...
Population history of the Hispaniolan hutia Plagiodontia aedium (Rodentia: Capromyidae) : testing the model of ancient differentiation on a geotectonically complex Caribbean island
(2012)
Hispaniola is a geotectonically complex island consisting of two palaeo-islands that docked c. 10 Ma, with a further geological boundary subdividing the southern palaeo-island into eastern and western regions. All three ...
A new subspecies of hutia (Plagiodontia, Capromyidae, Rodentia) from southern Hispaniola
(2015)
Continued uncertainty persists over the taxonomic status of many threatened Caribbean mammal populations. Recent molecular analysis has identified three genetically isolated allopatric hutia populations on Hispaniola that ...
Rodents of the Caribbean : origin and diversification of hutias unravelled by next-generation museomics
(2014)
The Capromyidae (hutias) are endemic rodents of the Caribbean and represent a model of dispersal for non-flying mammals in the Greater Antilles. This family has experienced severe extinctions during the Holocene and its ...
Anfibios y reptiles asociados a humedales de República Dominicana
(2018)
Los humedales se consideran parte de la riqueza natural de cualquier nación, país o región planetaria debido a que estos ambientes tan singulares ofrecen protección y servicios ecosistémicos que son imprescindibles para ...