Today the remaining original fauna of the Caribbean is precariously fragile, its survival in the balance. This is an authoritative, highly illustrated description of the Caribbean land, sea, and air fauna.
Extinct and endangered species; marine fauna - large and small cetaceans, whales and dolphins, sirenians, sea turtles, seahorses, crustaceans and molluscs; indigenous land fauna - reptilians, amphibians and terrestrial crustaceans, morocoy, mammals, insects, birds, terrestrial molluscs; distinctive species of the Venezuelian and Trinidadian delta regions; introduced species; the future of the fauna of the Caribbean.