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455:Geography of Hispaniola
387:http://www.birdlife.org
255:Hispaniolan dry forests
247:Sesuvium portulacastrum
84:Hispaniolan dry forests
16:Ecoregion on Hispaniola
460:Neotropical ecoregions
410:. World Wildlife Fund.
408:Terrestrial Ecoregions
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355:Terrestrial Ecoregions
404:"Enriquillo wetlands"
351:"Enriquillo wetlands"
271:Phoenicopterus ruber
244:), and the purslane
465:Flora of Hispaniola
445:Ecoregions of Haiti
222:buttonwood mangrove
167:Enriquillo wetlands
147:Conservation status
22:Enriquillo wetlands
314:Trachemys decorata
310:Hispaniolan slider
286:American crocodile
226:Conocarpus erectus
118:Dominican Republic
294:rhinoceros iguana
290:Crocodylus acutus
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257:ecoregion.
206:Trou Caïman
198:Rincón Lake
62:Neotropical
429:Categories
328:References
208:in Haiti.
190:depression
178:Hispaniola
151:Vulnerable
184:Geography
174:ecoregion
156:Protected
103:Countries
90:Geography
238:saltwort
230:cattails
220:are the
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