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Paleodietary reconstruction of endemic rodents from the precolumbian Dominican Republic : discriminating wild feeding behavior from diets linked to human niche construction activities
(2022)
In the Greater Antilles, certain animal taxa that have long been theorized to have been managed by indigenous peoples prior to AD1492, the main candidates being a group of endemic caviomorph rodents known as hutias ...
Revision of the fossil land tortoises (Testudines: Testudinidae) from Hispaniola with the description of a new species
(2022)
[Español] Las tortugas terrestres del género Chelonoidis tuvieron una amplia distribución en el Caribe insular y las Bahamas durante el Pleistoceno tardío y el Holoceno. Dos especies de este género, C. marcanoi Turvey et ...
Complete zygomatic arches in the Late Quaternary sloth Neocnus from La Altagracia province, Dominican Republic
(2022)
[English] Specimens of the extinct sloth genus Neocnus recovered from northwestern La Altagracia Province, Dominican Republic exhibit a unique zygomatic arch. The arch consists of the jugal anteriorly fused to the maxilla ...
Acerca de los límites geográficos para los inventarios de la biodiversidad costera y marina de la isla Hispaniola
(2021)
[Español] Se ofrecen pautas para establecer los límites geográficos de los inventarios de la biodiversidad costera y marina de la isla Hispaniola combinando las capas de: i) las Zonas Económicas Exclusivas de República ...
Actualización del inventario taxonómico de los estomatópodos (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Stomatopoda) de la isla Hispaniola = Update of the taxonomic inventory of the stomatopods (Crustacea: Malacostraca: Stomatopoda) of Hispaniola Island
(2023)
[Español] El presente trabajo actualiza y amplia los inventarios taxonómicos previos de los estomatópodos de Hispaniola con una más amplia cobertura de colecciones de museos. Con representantes de cinco familias, el número ...
Segundo inventario taxonómico de las macroalgas marinas bentónicas (Ochrophyta, Rhodophyta y Chlorophyta) de la isla Hispaniola
(2022)
[Español] El presente trabajo actualiza, desde una perspectiva insular y con un enfoque histórico, el conocimiento de la riqueza taxonómica de las macroalgas marinas bentónicas de la isla Hispaniola. Se documentan 393 ...
Freshwater microcrustaceans of Hispaniola : new records and potential as biological control agents
(2024)
[English] Some species of freshwater microcrustaceans have been widely used for biological control of mosquito larval populations. These zooplankton communities play an important role against some species of mosquitoes by ...
Island-to-island vicariance, founder-event and within-area speciation : the biogeographal history of the Antillattus clade (Salticidae: Euophryini)
(2022)
The Caribbean Archipelago is a biodiversity hotspot that plays a key role in developing our understanding of how dispersal ability affects species formation. In island systems, species with intermediate dispersal abilities ...
The Amazon sailfin catfish Pterygoplichthys pardalis (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), a new exotic species established in the Dominican Republic
(2020)
Abstract: The correct identity and occurrence of the introduced armored catfish, locally known as “devil fish” or “pleco” in the Dominican Republic, is briefly described. Specimens were collected from six sites in the ...
Let's wait for the evening : nocturnal copulation in a tropical damselfly Phylolestes ethelae (Odonata, Synlestidae)
(2024)
Sexual selection is one of the main causes of the diversity of reproductive behaviours observed intra- and interspecifically. Here we study the reproductive behaviour of a unique species, Phylolestes ethelae, the only ...