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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 ...
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]
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 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 ...
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.
The Caribbean monk seal (Neomonachus tropicalis), also known as the West Indian seal or sea wolf, is an extinct species of seal native to the Caribbean.The main natural predators of Caribbean monk seals were large sharks, such as great whites and tiger sharks, and possibly transient orcas (though killer whales are not often sighted in the Caribbean); however, humans would become their most ...
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)