Saint Vincent
Birds
unique to Saint
Vincent include the national bird, the Saint Vincent Amazon (ARKive),
and an endemic genus, the Whistling Warbler (Neotropical
Birds).
The Garifuna Big-eared Bat Micronycteris
garifuna (Mongabay)
is a recently described mammal unique to Saint Vincent. The
Saint Vincent Pygmy
Rice Rat Oligoryzomys
victus (Wikipedia) (NHM-London)
is believed extinct.
Reptiles found only in Saint Vincent include Cook’s Tree Boa Corallus cookii (p.
1 of snre.ufl.edu
pdf file), the Saint Vincent Blacksnake Chironius vincenti
(p. 10 of Michael
L. Treglia pdf file), the Saint Vincent Tree Anole Anolis griseus (SHNLH),
the Saint Vincent Bush Anole Anolis
trinitatus (Saumfinger.de),
and the Bequia Dwarf Gecko Sphaerodactylus
kirbyi and the recently described Grenadines Clawed Gecko Gonatodes daudini (both at caribherp).
The Saint Vincent Frog Eleutherodactylus
(or Pristimantis)
shrevei (caribherp)
is the sole endemic amphibian.
An endemic genus of clingfish Gymnoscyphus
ascitus (Google
Books) is known only from off Saint Vincent.
Among
over 100 species of beetles restricted
to Saint Vincent (Univ.
Nebraska pdf file) are a longhorned beetle Tethlimmena basalis
(fig. 4 at Internet
Archive), an ant-loving beetle Rybaxis
geminata (Harvard),
a darkling beetle Lorelopsis
pilosus (fig. 7 at Internet
Archive), a false blister beetle Oxycopsis frontalis
(fig. 13 at Internet
Archive), a masked chafer Cyclocephala vincentiae
(Bio-Nica
pdf file), a narrow-waisted bark
beetle Serrotibia
obrieni (p. 44 of Entomotropica
pdf file), and a weevil Peridinetus
silacea (p. 3 of Zootaxa
pdf file). Other
endemic invertebrates include a hairstreak Pseudolycaena cybele
(Butterflies
of America), a skipper Chiomara vincenta (Butterflies
of America), a grasshopper Nesonotus superbus (OSF),
a
wasp Zethus
woodruffi (fig. 1 on p. 4 of Univ.
Nebraska-Lincoln pdf file), a scorpion Tityus pictus (p. 5 of Euscorpius pdf file), a tarantula Tapinauchenius sanctivincenti (BirdSpiders.com),
a goblin spider Simonoonops princeps (AMNH), the
jumping spiders Stoidis
pygmaea (Salticidae
of the World) and Corythalia
metallica (Salticidae
of the World), and the land snails Plekocheilus aurissileni
(SHNLH)
and Simpulopsis
vincentina (fig. 65 & 66 at Google
Books). Saint Vincent's most distinctive endemic is
a freshwater sea slug Tantulum
elegans that is the sole member of the family Tantulidae (Internet
Archive).
The vascular plant species found nowhere else include a cactus Selenicereus
innesii (Desert
Tropicals), Begonia
pensilis (SHNLH),
Lobelia brigittalis
(SHNLH),
Tibouchina cistoides (Picasa),
a
bromeliad Pitcairnia
sulphurea (SHNLH),
Acalypha vincentina (Plants
of the Eastern Caribbean),
Gonolobus youroumaynensis
(Google
Books), Solanum
urens (Plants
of the Eastern Caribbean), Rudgea vincentina (JSTOR),
Vernonia (or Lepidaploa) pallescens
(fig. 3 at BHL),
Odontocarya
smithiorum (JSTOR),
Besleria elongata (JSTOR),
and the ferns Acrostichum
(or
Elaphoglossum) smithii (JSTOR)
and Pteris
longibrachiata (JSTOR).
Saint Vincent is part of the Caribbean Islands
biodiversity hotspot (CI). For
an overview of the
biota see the "Third National Biodiversity Report" (CBD
pdf file).