Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This list of reptiles of Trinidad and Tobago is derived from The Reptile Database which includes a total of 116 species of reptiles recorded on Trinidad, The reptiles of Trinidad are made up of 55 species of snakes, 49 species of lizards, 3 species of crocodilians and 14 species of turtles. [1]
The South American Classification Committee (SACC) of the American Ornithological Society lists 489 species of birds that have been confirmed on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago as of July 2024. Of them, two are endemic , seven have been introduced by humans, 131 are rare or vagrants , 11 have been extirpated , and the status of one is not known.
This page was last edited on 26 December 2019, at 02:10 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
Trinidad and Tobago is home to about 99 species of terrestrial mammals. About 65 of the mammalian species in the islands are bats (including cave roosting, tree and cavity roosting bats and even foliage-tent-making bats; all with widely differing diets from nectar and fruit, to insects, small vertebrates such as fish, frogs, small birds and rodents and even those that consume vertebrate blood).
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lists_of_reptiles_of_Trinidad_and_Tobago&oldid=1180307484"
B. Band-rumped swift; Band-tailed pigeon; Barred antshrike; Bay-headed tanager; Bearded bellbird; Bicolored conebill; Black hawk-eagle; Black-capped donacobius
Trinidad and Tobago is a major nesting site for Leatherback Turtles. Information about vertebrates is rather comprehensive, with 472 bird species (2 endemics), about 100 mammals, about 90 reptiles (a few endemics), about 30 amphibians (including several endemics), 50 freshwater fish and at least 950 marine fish. [89]
Several smaller islands lie off Trinidad, but snakes have been recorded on only one of them, Caledonia Island. Snakes have been recorded on one island off Tobago, Little Tobago. Four species are venomous: two coral snake species (Micrurus spp. [note 1]), the fer-de-lance (Bothrops atrox) and the South American bushmaster (Lachesis muta).