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
Caribbean Sea covering about , most of which are located off the Caribbean Islands and the Central American coast. Among them stands out the Belize Barrier Reef with an area of which was declared a World Heritage Site in 1996. It forms part of the Great Mayan Reef also known as the MBRS and being over in length is the world's second longest. It runs along the Caribbean coasts of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. During the past ten years, unusually warm Caribbean waters have been increasingly threatening Caribbean coral reefs. Coral reefs support some of the most diverse marine habitats in