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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 ]
Pages in category "Mammals of Jamaica" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The Jamaican greater funnel-eared bat (Natalus jamaicensis) is a species of funnel-eared bat endemic to Jamaica.Initially described as the subspecies Natalus major jamaicensis and later as a subspecies of Natalus stramineus, it has since been recognized as its own distinct species.
All of Jamaica's endemic species are native to the moist forests, and some also range into the dry forests. The black-billed streamertail (Trochilus scitulus) is limited to the eastern Blue and John Crow mountains. [5] Three widespread threatened species are found on Jamaica – the resident West Indian whistling duck (Dendrocygna arborea) and ...