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Last Endemic Mammals in Hispaniola

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Charles A. Woods
Charles A. Woods
Affiliation:
Dr Charles A. Woods, Department of Natural Sciences, Florida State Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611USA.
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Abstract

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After searching many remote regions in the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, the author discovered that the island's last two endemic mammals, formerly believed to be rare, are in fact common in some areas. But human pressures on the hutia Plagiodonria aedium and the solenodon S. paradoxus are such that, unless the Governments of Haiti and the Dominican Republic take effective steps both could soon become extinct.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , October 1981 , pp. 146 - 152
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1981

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