List of endemic fauna of Puerto Rico

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This is a list of the

scientific name
of the species.

Birds

Elfin-woods warbler
Puerto Rican parrot
Puerto Rican owl, an endemic species found in the western municipality of Aguada.

Crustaceans

Insects

Myriapoda

Reptiles/amphibians

Coquí
Mona ground iguana
Puerto Rican boa
  • Puerto Rican racer (Borikenophis portoricensis)
  • Mona ameiva
    (Ameiva alboguttata)
  • Desecheo ameiva (Ameiva desechensis)
  • Puerto Rican ground lizard
    (Ameiva exsul)
  • Blue-tailed ground lizard
    (Ameiva wetmorei)
  • Baker's worm lizard (Amphisbaena bakeri)
  • Puerto Rican worm lizard
    (Amphisbaena caeca)
  • Schmidt's worm lizard
    (Amphisbaena schmiditi)
  • Puerto Rican dryland worm lizard
    , North American worm lizard (Amphisbaena xera)
  • Guánica pallid anole, Cook's pallid anole,
    Cook's anole
    (Anolis cooki)
  • Mona anole
    (Anolis monensis)
  • Dwarf anole, pygmy anole,
    Puerto Rican twig anole
    (Anolis occultus)
  • Dryland grass anole (Ctenonotus poncensis)[6]
  • Puerto Rican garden snake (Magliophis exiguus subspadix)
  • Puerto Rican crested toad, ridge-headed toad, lowland Caribbean toad, Puerto Rican toad and sapo concho (Bufo lemur)[7]
  • Mona ground iguana (Cyclura cornuta stejnegeri)
  • Puerto Rican galliwasp
    (Diploglossus pleei)
  • Puerto Rican cave dwelling frog
    (Eleutherodactylus cooki)
  • Common coquí (Eleutherodactylus coqui)
  • Mottled coquí
    (Eleutherodactylus eneidae)
  • Golden coquí (Eleutherodactylus jasperi)
  • Mona coquí (Eleutherodactylus monensis)
  • Puerto Rican boa (Chilabothrus inornatus)
  • Mona Island boa (Chilabothrus monensis)
  • Monito gecko (Sphaerodactylus micropithecus)
  • Mona dwarf gecko (Sphaerodactylus monensis)
  • Puerto Rico upland gecko
    (Sphaerodactylus klauberi)
  • Desecheo dwarf gecko (Sphaerodactylus levinsi)
  • Gaige's least gecko
    (Sphaerodactylus gaigeae)
  • Townsend's dwarf gecko (Sphaerodactylus townsendi)
  • Nichols' dwarf gecko (Sphaerodactylus nicholsi)
  • Puerto Rican dwarf gecko (Sphaerodactylus grandisquamis)
  • Isla Vieques dwarf gecko
    (Sphaerodactylus inigoi)
  • Roosevelt's dwarf gecko (Sphaerodactylus roosevelti)
  • Mona blindsnake
    (Typhlops monensis)
  • Puerto Rican wetland blind snake
    (Typhlops rostellatus)

Spiders

This is a list of all spiders endemic to Puerto Rico, according to Platnick.[8]

  • Araneidae
  • Clubionidae
  • Ctenidae
  • Gnaphosidae
  • Hahniidae
  • Lycosidae
  • Mimetidae
  • Salticidae
  • Scytodidae
  • Sparassidae
  • Tetragnathidae
  • Theraphosidae
  • Theridiosomatidae

Extinct animals

  • Greater Puerto Rican ground sloth (Acratocnus major) - The greater Puerto Rican ground sloth became extinct approximately 3000–4000 years ago.
  • Lesser Puerto Rican ground sloth (Acratocnus odontrigonus) - The lesser Puerto Rican ground sloth became extinct approximately 3000–4000 years ago.
  • Puerto Rican caracara (Caracara latebrosus)
  • Puerto Rican plate-tooth (
    Elasmodontomys obliquus
    ) - The Puerto Rican plate-tooth, giant hutia or Puerto Rican paca became extinct approximately in the early 16th century.
  • Greater Puerto Rican agouti (
    Heteropsomys antillensis
    )
  • Lesser Puerto Rican agouti (Heteropsomys insulans)
  • Puerto Rican nesophontes (
    Nesophontes edithae
    ) - The Puerto Rican nesophontes became extinct approximately in the early 16th century.
  • Corozal rat (Puertoricomys corozalus)
  • Puerto Rican parakeet, Mauge's parakeet (Psittacara chloroptera maugei syn. Psittacara maugei)
  • Puerto Rican barn owl (
    Tyto cavatica
    )

See also

Footnotes

  1. ISBN 0691087369
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  2. ^ This species was formerly categorized as Otus nupides, but was subsequently moved to the genus Megascops, and then moved again to its own monospecific genus Gymnasio.
  3. ^ This species was formerly a subspecies of Spindalis zena. In 1997 it was elevated to species status: O. H. Garrido; K. C. Parkes; G. B. Reynard; A. Kirkconnell; R. Sutton (1997). "Taxonomy of the Stripe-Headed Tanager, Genus Spindalis (Aves:Thraupidae) of the West Indies". Wilson Bulletin. 109 (4): 561–594.
  4. ^ This species was split from Chlorophonia musica based on significant differences in plumage in Species Updates IOC Version 13.2 https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/updates/species-updates/
  5. ^ "Anolis poncensis". Zipecodezoo.com. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
  6. ^ "Ctenonotus Poncensis". Zipcodezoo.com. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
  7. ^ This species was formerly categorized as Peltophryne lemur but was subsequently renamed[permanent dead link].
  8. ^ Platnick, N.I. (2006). world spider catalog, version 7.0. American Museum of Natural History

References

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