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Table 2. — Distribution of Hispaniolan species of amphibians and reptiles • — Con. 



• A dagger (f) indicates species peculiar to the southwestern mountains of Haiti. 

 THE NONINDIGENOUS SPECIES 



Out of 128 species and subspecies now known to inhabit Hispaniola, 

 only 6 or 7 are not indigenous. Of the 32 known genera, 7 are found 

 nowhere else. 



Among the nonendemic forms now recorded from Hispaniola, Bufo 

 marinus, which was very recently introduced, seems to be gaining a 

 real foothold in Monte Cristi. Hemidactylus brookii, originally intro- 



