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List of endemic fauna of Puerto Rico

List of endemic fauna of Puerto Rico

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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

  • Camponotus kaura-[page needed] was first described by Roy R. Snelling & Juan A. Torres
  • Solenopsis torrei-[page needed] was first described by Juan A. Torres

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]

  • Anyphaena decora
  • Wulfila coamoanus
  • Wulfila inconspicuus
  • Wulfila isolatus
  • Wulfila macropalpus
  • Wulfila tropicus
  • Araneus adjuntaensis
  • Lewisepeira maricao
  • Metazygia silvestris
  • Clubiona desecheonis
  • Elaver portoricensis
  • Abapeba guanicae
  • Abapeba wheeleri
  • Corinna javuyae
  • Phrurolithus insularis
  • Phrurolithus portoricensis
  • Trachelas borinquensis
  • Celaetycheus modestus
  • Celaetycheus strenuus
  • Oligoctenus ottleyi
  • Trujillina isolata
  • Masteria petrunkevitchi
  • Camillina desecheonis
  • Neozimiris nuda
  • Hahnia naguaboi
  • Amblyomma arianae
  • Lepthyphantes microserratus
  • Agalenocosa yaucensis
  • Mimetus portoricensis
  • Oonops delegenus
  • Oonops ebenecus
  • Oonops viridans
  • Stenoonops econotus
  • Stenoonops phonetus
  • Stenoonops portoricensis
  • Modisimus cavaticus
  • Modisimus coeruleolineatus
  • Modisimus montanus
  • Modisimus montanus dentatus
  • Modisimus sexoculatus
  • Modisimus signatus
  • Agobardus blandus
  • Corythalia gloriae
  • Corythalia tristriata
  • Emathis luteopunctata
  • Emathis minuta
  • Emathis portoricensis
  • Emathis tetuani
  • Eris illustris
  • Habronattus ensenadae
  • Habronattus facetus
  • Hentzia squamata
  • Jollas minutus
  • Neonella mayaguez
  • Sidusa mona
  • Siloca monae
  • Scytodes dissimulans
  • Olios bicolor
  • Olios darlingtoni
  • Pseudosparianthis jayuyae
  • Stasina portoricensis
  • Chrysometa hamata
  • Chrysometa jayuyensis
  • Chrysometa yunque
  • Glenognatha gloriae
  • Tetragnatha bryantae
  • Baalzebub albonotatus
  • Ogulnius gloriae
  • Misumenops bubulcus
  • Rejanellus mutchleri
  • Tmarus vertumus
  • Miagrammopes animotus

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. [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. [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. [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. [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. [5]
    "Anolis poncensis". Zipecodezoo.com. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
  6. [6]
    "Ctenonotus Poncensis". Zipcodezoo.com. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
  7. [7]
    This species was formerly categorized as Peltophryne lemur but was subsequently renamed[permanent dead link].
  8. [8]
    Platnick, N.I. (2006). world spider catalog, version 7.0. American Museum of Natural History

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