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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. |