Animals and Plants Unique to Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts and Nevis

The Saint Kitts Bullfinch Loxigilla portoricencis grandis (Naturalis) is an extinct endemic bird subspecies.

Arthropods known only from Saint Kitts and Nevis include a stick insect Diapherodes christopheri (Phasmida), an undescribed fungus weevil of the genus Ormiscus (p. 9 of Univ. Nebraska pdf file), the tarantulas Nesipelma insulare (theraphosidae.cz) and Cyrtopholis media (BHL), and a ground spider Cesonia maculata (AMNH).

Two species of ferns are the only endemic vascular plants: Thelypteris muscicola (Harvard) and Asplenium malcolm-smithii (JSTOR).

For an overview of the biota see the "Biodiversity Profile of St. Kitts and Nevis" (bio-diversity-nevis.org pdf file).

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