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Tityus tenuicauda is a species of scorpions in the family Buthidae.This species was believed to be endemic to the island of Trinidad in Trinidad and Tobago.The distribution range of T. tenuicauda has been extended westward until Las Melenas, a location in the western side of Paria Peninsula National Park, Sucre State, northeastern Venezuela.
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Trinidad and Tobago is within the worldwide ranges of twenty eight cetacean species. Nineteen of these cetacean species have been recorded in Trinidad and Tobago waters and it is expected that more species will be recorded as cetacean research progresses in this area. [1] Suborder: Mysticeti. Family: Balaenopteridae (baleen whales) Genus ...
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).
Sea turtles (Cheloniidae) are a family of large turtles found in all tropical seas and some subtropical and temperate seas. Sea turtles developed from land turtles about 120 million years ago and are well adapted to life in the sea. They feed mainly on jellyfish, crustaceans and squid. 4 chelonids were recorded in both Trinidad and Tobago.
Trinidad and Tobago, [a] officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean.Comprising the main islands of Trinidad and Tobago, along with numerous smaller islands, it is located 11 kilometres (6 nautical miles) northeast off the coast of Venezuela, 130 kilometres (70 nautical miles) south of Grenada, and west of Barbados.
Coral reef health has also declined during this period due to sedimentation, nutrient runoff from and thermal stress from urbanization in Tobago. [2] [4] [18] [24] [25] Three major coral bleaching events occurred in Tobago in 1998, 2005 and 2010 that also affected the coral cover of many coral reefs, including the Buccoo Reef.
A Trinidadian buffalo used as a transport mount. A Buffalypso steer. Buffalypso, also called Trinidadian Buffalo, is a breed of water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) developed in Trinidad by veterinarian Stephen Bennett (1922–2011) in the early 1960s. [1]