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Osteopilus pulchrilineatus, Hispaniolan Yellow Treefrog
(2013)
Artículo que resume los resultados de una evaluación sobre el estado de conservación de la Rana Arborícola Amarilla de la Hispaniola (Osteopilus pulchrilineatus) publicado en la «Lista Roja de Especies Amenazadas» de la ...
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 ...
Comparison of the recent and Miocene Hispaniolan spider faunas
(2002)
[English] Hispaniolan (=Dominican Republic and Haiti) araneology is reviewed and a checklist of fossil (Miocene Dominican Republic amber) and Recent spiders is provided, with type data and recorder details for endemic taxa. ...
Using the past to contextualize anthropogenic impacts on the present and future distribution of an endemic Caribbean mammal
(2019)
Island species are difficult to conserve because they face the synergy of climate change, invasive species, deforestation, and increasing human population densities in areas where land mass is shrinking. The Caribbean ...
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 ...
Past and present of insular Caribbean mammals : understanding Holocene extinctions to inform modern biodiversity conservation
(2017)
[English] Of the 116 mammal species present in the Greater Antilles at the start of the Holocene Epoch, only 56 now survive, with more extensive species losses (~80%) in native lineages of sloths, shrews, rodents, and ...
Roedores fósiles de la Hispaniola
(1987)
Este estudio es la primera aproximación sistemática que se realiza en las Antillas con la finalidad de reunir datos e informaciones científicas sobre los roedores fósiles. El autor, reconocido paleontólogo dominicano, no ...
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 ...
First Caribbean Floricomus (Araneae: Linyphiidae), a new fossil species in Miocene Dominican Republic amber: a new synonymy for the extant North American fauna
(2005)
The new species Floricomus fossilis (Araneae: Linyphiidae) is described from Miocene Dominican Republic amber. This is the first fossil record of Floricomus, extending its known geological range by 15-20 Ma, and is the ...
Guía para la identificación de los anfibios y réptiles de la Hispaniola
(1984)
Esta guía es de gran importancia y utilidad para especialistas y aficionados de la identificación de anfibios y reptiles de la Hispaniola y de la región del Caribe. Desde el año 1941, en el que Doris M. Cochran publicara ...