Pilosans of the Caribbean Rico, the easternmost of the Greater Antilles; another species is known from much older, Oligocene, sediments. Grenada is the southernmost island of the main Lesser Antillean island arc. Trinidad is a large island off northeastern Venezuela. It hosts two species of anteaters that are also found on mainland South America. Curaçao is a Dutch island off northwestern Venezuela. Escudo de Veraguas is an island off northern Panama. Despite its small size, it supports two mammal species found nowhere else: the bat "Artibeus incomitatus" and the only extant Caribbean sloth. Pilosans of the Caribbean The mammalian order Pilosa, which includes the
Bedarra Island Bedarra Island Bedarra Island (also known as Richards Island) in the Cassowary Coast Region off the Queensland coast in Australia. Bedarra Island is approximately seven kilometres off the tropical North Queensland coast, midway between Townsville and Cairns, the nearest coastal town being Mission Beach. It is in the middle of Family Islands National Park. The granite island was part of the mainland before the last sea level rise began 8,000 years ago. The island consists of pristine coral sandy beaches with coves formed by giant granite boulders and fringed with lush green jungle. Bedarra is a continental island made up