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DNA analysis indicates that the species is a type of titi monkey, sister to the recently recognized northern South American genus Cheracebus, that colonized Jamaica around 11 million years ago. This is younger than the oldest fossils of monkeys on Cuba, meaning that the Jamaican monkey has a separate origin from the other monkeys of the Greater ...
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:
Three species—Xenothrix mcgregori from Jamaica, as well as Antillothrix bernensis and Insulacebus toussaintiana, both from Hispaniola — are known from the Quaternary and became extinct relatively recently (with A. bernensis lasting until the 1500s), while two Cuban species more related to the howler monkeys, Paralouatta varonai, and ...
Jamaican monkey; Jamaican red macaw; Jamaican wood rail; O. Oryzomys antillarum; Osborn's key mouse; R. Red-headed macaw; U. Urania sloanus
Xenotrichini (the Antilles monkeys) is a tribe of extinct primates, which lived on the Greater Antilles as recently as the 16th century.. These Caribbean islands no longer contain endemic primates, although the most recently discovered species, the Hispaniola monkey, was reported to have lived on Hispaniola until the settlement by the Europeans.
The 158 extant species of Cercopithecidae are divided into two subfamilies: Cercopithecinae, containing 78 baboon, guenon, macaque, and other monkey species divided between thirteen genera, and Colobinae, containing 80 colobus, lutung, and other monkey species divided between ten genera. Dozens of extinct prehistoric cercopithecoid species have ...
List of mammals of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; List of mammals of Costa Rica; List of Costa Rican monkey species; List of mammals of Croatia; List of mammals of Cuba; List of mammals of Cyprus; List of mammals of the Czech Republic
Presently, 78 species of New World monkeys have been registered in South America. [2] Around the middle of the Cenozoic, approximately 34 million years ago, [ 3 ] two types of mammals appeared for the first time in South America: rodents and primates .