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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 ...
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In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
Common name(s) Notes Image Geochelone carbonaria: Red-footed tortoise: Scaly sea turtles (Cheloniidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Caretta caretta: Loggerhead turtle: Endangered. No reliable reports of nesting in Anguilla. [3] Chelonia mydas: Green turtle: Endangered. Recorded nesting in Anguilla, principally on Dog Island and the ...
Common name(s) Notes Image Osteopilus septentrionalis [1] Cuban tree frog: Least concern. [2] Introduced; recently recorded as established on Antigua. Tropical frogs (Leptodactylidae) Species Common name(s) Notes Image Eleutherodactylus johnstonei: Lesser Antillean whistling frog, coqui Antillano, Johnstone's whistling frog: Least concern ...
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 ...
Common name(s) Notes Image Anolis sabanus: Saban Anole: Endemic. Widespread and common. Iguana iguana: Green Iguana, Common Iguana: Rare. Population on Saba is possibly a distinct species. Colubrids Species Common name(s) Notes Image Alsophis rufiventris: Saba Racer, Red-bellied Racer, Orange-bellied Racer: Endangered. Regional endemic.