🇩🇴

Dominican Republic

North America · Caribbean

Total Species
224
Threatened
2
CR + EN + VU
Population
10.847.904
Area
48.671 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 1
Vulnerable 1
Near Threatened 1
Least Concern 26
Data Deficient 1
Not Evaluated 66
Extinct 1

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 179
Animalia 43
Fungi 1
Chromista 1

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Dominican Republic

Wasserspinat

Ipomoea aquatica

Least Concern

Weiss-Klee

Trifolium repens

Least Concern

Wilde Fingerhirse

Eleusine indica

Least Concern

Wildkaninchen

Oryctolagus cuniculus

Near Threatened

Wildschwein

Sus scrofa

Least Concern

Wolf

Canis lupus

Critically Endangered

Wunderblume

Mirabilis jalapa

Least Concern

Wurzelschwamm

Heterobasidion annosum

Least Concern

Zimtbaum

Cinnamomum verum

Not Evaluated

Pillpod sandmat

Euphorbia hirta

Not Evaluated

Coral vine

Antigonon leptopus

Not Evaluated

Hilograss

Paspalum conjugatum

Least Concern

Ant

Strumigenys rogeri

Not Evaluated

Bicolored trailing ant

Monomorium floricola

Not Evaluated

Oriental false hawksbeard

Youngia japonica

Not Evaluated

Devil's horsewhip

Achyranthes aspera

Not Evaluated

Weeping Paperbark

Melaleuca leucadendra

Data Deficient

Punktree

Melaleuca quinquenervia

Least Concern

Yellow fever mosquito

Aedes aegypti

Not Evaluated

Javan Mongoose

Herpestes javanicus

Not Evaluated

Littlebell

Ipomoea triloba

Least Concern

Little fire ant

Wasmannia auropunctata

Not Evaluated

Black wattle

Acacia mangium

Not Evaluated

Asian Tiger Mosquito

Aedes albopictus

Not Evaluated

White moneywort

Alysicarpus vaginalis

Not Evaluated

Sweetpotato whitefly

Bemisia tabaci

Not Evaluated

Longhorned crazy ant

Paratrechina longicornis

Not Evaluated

Jamaican feverplant

Tribulus cistoides

Not Evaluated

creeping river grass

Echinochloa polystachya

Not Evaluated

Gulf cockspur grass

Echinochloa crus-pavonis

Not Evaluated

Southern Cut Grass

Leersia hexandra

Not Evaluated

Mile-a-minute

Mikania micrantha

Not Evaluated

Chinese violet

Asystasia gangetica

Not Evaluated

Purple plague

Miconia calvescens

Least Concern

Siamese cassia

Senna siamea

Not Evaluated

Cat

Felis catus

Not Evaluated

Common asparagus fern

Asparagus setaceus

Not Evaluated

Asparagus fern

Asparagus densiflorus

Not Evaluated

White cedar

Tabebuia heterophylla

Least Concern

Cane Toad

Rhinella marina

Least Concern

Madagascar widow's-thrill

Kalanchoe blossfeldiana

Not Evaluated

Bellyache bush

Jatropha gossypiifolia

Not Evaluated

Indonesian gum

Eucalyptus deglupta

Vulnerable

Palay rubbervine

Cryptostegia grandiflora

Not Evaluated

Pitted beardgrass

Bothriochloa pertusa

Not Evaluated

saramatta grass

Ischaemum rugosum

Least Concern

Itchgrass

Rottboellia cochinchinensis

Not Evaluated

Evergreen Goldenrod

Solidago sempervirens

Least Concern

Peruvian primrose-willow

Ludwigia peruviana

Not Evaluated

Light-blue snakeweed

Stachytarpheta jamaicensis

Least Concern

Grand eucalyptus

Eucalyptus grandis

Least Concern

Argyle apple

Eucalyptus cinerea

Near Threatened

Duckweed

Lemna perpusilla

Least Concern

Aroma

Dichrostachys cinerea

Least Concern

Logwood

Haematoxylum campechianum

Least Concern

Black mimosa

Mimosa pigra

Least Concern

African payal

Salvinia auriculata

Not Evaluated

Tropical burnweed

Erechtites valerianifolius

Not Evaluated

Coatbuttons

Tridax procumbens

Not Evaluated

Chickenspike

Sphenoclea zeylanica

Least Concern

More Countries in North America

Nature FYI Family

Explore more of the natural world across our sister sites.

Part of the Nature FYI family — FYIPedia