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Cetaceans (or Cetacea, from the ancient Greek κῆτος, meaning 'sea monster') form an infra-order of marine mammals. In 2020, approximately 86 species of cetaceans had been identified worldwide. [ 1 ] Among these species, at least 35 have been sighted in the wider Caribbean region with very widespread distribution and density variations ...
Pages in category "Caribbean legendary creatures" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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 Caribbean Film Festival, Lusca Fantastic Film Fest, was named after this sea monster; the festival is an annual event held in Puerto Rico. It is the first and only international fantastic film festival in the Caribbean. [3] The survival video game Stranded Deep features an enemy giant squid named Lusca the Great. [4]
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 ...
This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total. Fauna of the Caribbean by country (13 C) Fauna of the Caribbean by dependent territory (12 C) Fauna of the Caribbean by island (34 C, 1 P)
The Caribbean reef octopus lives in warm waters around coral reef environments and grassy and rocky sea beds. Their biogeographic regions are as follows: the Nearctic region, Neotropical region (Central and South America), oceanic islands and the Pacific Ocean. The Caribbean reef octopus lives in hidden, rocky lairs that are difficult to locate.
Shaw's black-backed snake, Shaw's dark ground snake. Possibly extirpated from Grenada. Mastigodryas bruesi. Barbour's tropical racer. Regional endemic. Recorded from the southern half of Grenada, which is the southern limit of the species' range. Pseudoboa neuwiedi. Neuwied's false boa, coal snake.