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This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Jamaica. Of the mammal species in Jamaica, one is endangered, four are vulnerable, and two are considered to be extinct. [1] The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:
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Printable version; In other projects ... Help. Pages in category "Mammals of Jamaica" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Jamaican red ...
Pezosiren portelli, [2] also known as the "walking manatee", is a basal sirenian from the early Eocene of Jamaica, 50 million years ago.The type specimen is represented by a Jamaican fossil skeleton, described in 2001 by Daryl Domning, [3] a marine mammal paleontologist at Howard University in Washington, DC.
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Desmarest's hutia (Capromys pilorides), a member of a rodent family known only from the Caribbean.. The Caribbean region is home to a diverse and largely endemic rodent fauna. . This includes the endemic family Capromyidae (hutias), which are largely limited to the Greater Antilles, and two other groups of endemic hystricognaths, the heteropsomyines and giant hutias, including the extinct bear ...
In fact, elephants have the honor of being the biggest land mammal in the world. There are two types of elephants: African and Asian . They both have long trunks, large ears, and sturdy bodies ...
A unique and diverse albeit phylogenetically restricted mammal fauna [note 1] is known from the Caribbean region. The region—specifically, all islands in the Caribbean Sea (except for small islets close to the continental mainland) and the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Barbados, which are not in the Caribbean Sea but biogeographically belong to the same Caribbean bioregion—has ...