List of endemic fauna of Puerto Rico

This is a list of the endemic fauna of Puerto Rico. This list is sorted in alphabetical order by 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

Spiders

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

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. ^ The Puerto Rican pewee is not an official species recognized by the AOU. The species is a proposed split from the Lesser Antillean pewee (Contopus latirostris) by Rafaelle, H., et al. (1998) in A Guide to the Birds of the West Indies, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0691087369.
  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