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Dominican Republic: Animal world |
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Mammalia | Birds | Fishes | Reptiles |  |
Miscellaneous |
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| testacean/crustacean |
| Click the following pictures to enlarge them! |
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:the Purple Land Crab? (Gecarcinus ruricola, family: Gecarcinidae - Land Crabs). (2012) |
| the Blue Crab (Callinectes sapidus, family: Portunidae - Swimming Crabs): |
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:another special specimen. (2012) |
| the Bigclaw River Shrimp or Painted River Prawn (Macrobrachium carcinus, family: Palaemonidae - Prawns): |
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:the Caribbean Spiny Lobster (Panulirus argus, family: Palinuridae - Spiny Lobsters). |
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| frog-species |
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:the Hispaniolan Giant Treefrog (Osteopilus vastus, family: Hylidae - New World Tree Frogs). |
| the Southern Crested Toad or Gunther's Caribbean toad (Bufo guentheri, family: Bufonidae - True Toads) (2006): |
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| arachnids |
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:the Greater Hispaniolan Tarantula or the Hispaniolan Giant Tarantula (Phormictopus cancerides, family: Theraphosidae - Typical Tarantulas). (2008) |
| the Buthid Scorpion (Centruroides marcanoi, family: Buthidae - Buthids): |
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: here the Hispaniolan Giant Tarantula in my bathroom, late at night, when you want to go to sleep quietly, bah! (2004) |
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| insects |
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:the American Cockroach (Periplaneta americana, family: Blattidae - Blattid Cockroaches or Domestic Cockroaches), beside the mosquito another well-known (notorious) and omnipresent insect, even in your house at humid and warm places, like the kitchen or the bathroom. Cleaning will help, but they never disappear totally. |
| the mosquito (family Culicidae - Mosquitoes): |
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:the Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly (Phoebis sennae sennae, family: Pieridae - Whites and Sulphurs), you see them everywhere. (2002) |
| the Leaf-mimicking Katydid or the Great Green Bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima, family: Tettigoniidae - Katydids, Long-horned Grasshoppers or Bush-Crickets) (2012): |
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:another beautiful butterfly. Do you know the name? (2006) |
| the big moth (Common Heath Moth, Ematurga atomaria) (2007): |
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:a caterpillar. (2008) |
| the Paper wasp (Polistes americana, family: Vespidae - Vespids) (2008): |
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:a dragonfly (Order: Odonata - dragonflies and damselflies). (2008) |
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| others |
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:the jelly-fish. |
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Mammalia | Birds | Fishes | Reptiles | |
Miscellaneous |
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