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Endemic fauna of the United States Virgin Islands (5 P) Pages in category "Endemic fauna of the Caribbean" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
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 ...
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 ...
The following families are endemic to the region: . Palmchat, a passerine family (Dulidae), containing a single species found only on Hispaniola.; the todies, a family (Todidae) with five species, found only on the Greater Antilles.
The third species, A. crassispantha, is endemic to southwest Haiti; due to its very small population size, it is classified as a critically endangered species [16] Three other species occur in the wider Caribbean: Attalea allenii along the Caribbean coast of Panama and Colombia, A. cohune on the Caribbean coast from Mexico to Nicaragua and A ...
Other animals, fungi and plants arrived via long-distance oceanic dispersal or island hopping from North America and South America. [2] [3] The bioregion has many plant species, including many endemics. There are about 200 endemic genera of plants. Wallenia, the largest endemic genus, has thirty species, and six other genera have ten or more ...
The ecoregion has 207 native species of birds. [4] 28 species are endemic to Jamaica, the most endemic species of any Caribbean island. Jamaica has four endemic genera – Trochilus, Loxipasser, Euneornis, and Nesopsar. All of Jamaica's endemic species are native to the moist forests, and some also range into the dry forests.
A category for restricted-range endemic bird species in the West Indies. ... Pages in category "Endemic birds of the Caribbean"