Bonaire
An endemic lizard is the Bonaire Anole Anolis
bonairensis (Stephen Creswell).
Invertebrates restricted to Bonaire include a nudibranch Trapania bonellenae (Slug Site), a jumping
ground bug Cryptostemma
cobbeni (AMNH), and several land snails: Cerion bonairensis
(Cerion), Cerion kralendijki (Cerion),
Tudora
maculata (Femorale), Tudora aurantia (Bram's Snail Site), Neosubulina harterti (fig. 17 at Internet Archive), and Stoastomops
walkeri (figs. 20 on p. 133 of Deep
Blue pdf file). Sponges known solely from Bonaire include Batzella fusca and Hymedesmia bonairensis (both at UvA DARE
pdf file).
Bonaire
is
included in the
Caribbean Islands biodiversity hotspot (CI), is part of the Aruba-Curaçao-Bonaire
Cactus Scrub ecoregion (EoE), and is a special
municipality of the Netherlands.