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The fauna of the Greater Antilles mainly consists of caviomorphans, including hutias, giant hutias, and a subfamily of spiny rats (Heteropsomyinae). Of these, only some hutias survive. [59] Oryzomyines, part of a wholly distinct branch of the rodents, are known throughout the Lesser Antilles and on Jamaica, but are now also mostly extinct. [60]
Q. niger. Binomial name. Quiscalus niger. (Boddaert, 1783) Range of Q. niger. The Greater Antillean grackle (Quiscalus niger) is a grackle found throughout the Greater Antilles, as well as smaller nearby islands. Like all Quiscalus grackles, it is a rather large, gregarious bird. [2] It lives largely in heavily settled areas.
Taxonomy. The Greater Antillean bullfinch was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Loxia violacea. [ 2 ] The specific epithet violacea is from Latin violaceus meaning "violet-coloured". [ 3 ] Linnaeus based his description on "The Purple Gross-beak ...
The Caribbean bioregion, as described by the World Wildlife Fund, includes the Greater Antilles ( Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica ), the Lesser Antilles, the Lucayan archipelago ( Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands ), Southern Florida in the United States and Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. The Lucayan archipelago lies north of the ...
West Indian manatee. The West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), also known as the North American manatee, is a large, aquatic mammal native to warm coastal areas of the Caribbean, from the Eastern United States to northern Brazil. Living alone or in herds, it feeds on underwater plants and uses its whiskers to navigate.
The Greater Antilles[ 1 ] is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica, together with Navassa Island and the Cayman Islands. Seven island states share the region of the Greater Antilles, with Haiti and the Dominican Republic sharing the island of Hispaniola.
In the North of the Gulf of Mexico, it is found at depths greater than 200 m and most often greater than 1000 m. [50] Sightings in the Caribbean are somewhat rare, limited to a few along the whole of the arc, in the Greater Antilles (United States Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Puerto Rico [51]) and the Lesser Antilles. [52] [53] [54]
Hutia. Hutias (known in Spanish as jutía[1]) are moderately large cavy -like rodents of the subfamily Capromyinae that inhabit the Caribbean islands. Most species are restricted to Cuba, but species are known from all of the Greater Antilles, as well as The Bahamas and (formerly) Little Swan Island off of Honduras.