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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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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.
The Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) is native to Jamaica along with the other Greater Antilles, Central America, and northwestern South America. The only other terrestrial mammal is the Jamaican hutia (Geocapromys brownii), a rabbit-sized rodent endemic to Jamaica which mostly lives in the island's eastern, central and southern ...
The Jamaican iguana is the second-largest land animal native to Jamaica, with only the Jamaican boa weighing more. Males can grow to over 2 kilograms (4.4 lb) and 428 millimetres (16.9 in) in length whereas females are slightly smaller, growing to 378 millimetres (14.9 in) in length. [ 1 ]
The Jamaican coney is generally about the size of a cottontail rabbit, and mature adults usually weigh between 1 and 2 kg. [2] It is reddish brown/yellowish brown in colour, and ranges in size from about 330 to 445 mm in length. It has the smallest tail of all the species in the genus (approximately 45mm).
The bat fauna of the Caribbean region is diverse.. For the purposes of this article, the "Caribbean" includes all islands in the Caribbean Sea (except for small islets close to the 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.