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© Programa Ecomar, Inc.

Last updated: January 8, 2012, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

HISPABIOTA MARINA is a long term project implemented by Programa Ecomar, Inc. in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to create the first inventory of the marine biota of Hispaniola Island (Dominican Republic and Haiti). All taxonomic marine groups (from microalgae to mammals) are being studied. Preliminary lists are available for most of the groups, summing at the moment more than 2,500 known species. Nevertheless, only the lists of macroalgae, sea anemones, chitons, stomatopods, echinoderms and brachiopods are completely reviewed and/or published and the results could be downloaded by clicking in the pictures of the correspondent group. A first published inventory of the marina fauna of Hispaniola Island from 2004 is also available, by clicking on the map, but some of the figures presented herein have changed since new information became available. For a more updated information click over the stripe of the Summary of the current number of known species (right below) and a sliding table will be opened. The final product of this project will be: updated taxonomic lists, fully referenced, for almost 60 taxonomic marine groups and complete databases with habitat, depth, localities, museum collections, as well as distributional maps. We still working in updating the species lists for the rest of the groups and the new results will be published  as soon as they were ready. The project is assisted by a group of specialists from institutions all over the world and works in close association with the Natural History Museum of Santo Domingo. 

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SUMMARY OF THE CURRENT NUMBER OF KNOWN SPECIES

Phylla/Subphylla/Class

 Dominican

 Haiti

Hispaniola

Cyanophyta, Bacillariophyta and Dinophyta

54

0

54

Magnoliophyta

6

3

6

Rhodophyta, Phaeophyta and Chlorophyta

262

170 

325 

Porifera

127

63

138

Cnidaria

189

87

212

Ctenophora

1

0

1

Sipuncula

2

0

2

Mollusca

514

143

567

Annelida

16

12

26

Arthropoda

297

149

437

Urochordata

7

5

11

Chaetognatha

2

4

4

Echinodermata

121

77

155

Brachiopoda

10

2

11

Chordata/Chondrichthyes & Actinopterygii

700

554

901

Chordata/Mammalia

21

9

21

Total

2,329

1,108

2,546