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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:
Mammals of Jamaica (14 P) R. Reptiles of Jamaica (34 P) Pages in category "Fauna of Jamaica" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Pages in category "Mammals of Jamaica" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... This page was last edited on 2 April 2017, at 01:48 (UTC).
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 ...
Mammals of Jamaica (14 P) M. Mammals of Martinique (6 P) Mammals of Montserrat (4 P) P. Mammals of Puerto Rico (16 P) S. Mammals of Saint Kitts and Nevis (6 P)
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 coney (Geocapromys brownii), also known as the Jamaican hutia or Brown's hutia, is a small, endangered, rat-like mammal found only on the island of Jamaica. About the size of a rabbit, it lives in group nests and is active at night to feed on fruit, bark, and other plant matter.
As with other oceanic islands, land mammals are mostly several species of bats of which at least three endemic species are found only in Cockpit Country, one of which is at-risk. Other species of bat include the fig-eating and hairy-tailed bats. The only non-bat native mammal extant in Jamaica is the Jamaican hutia, locally known as the coney. [84]