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MatBio: MAMMALS -Matanzas Biodiversity

Welcome to our series of field guides - part of the MatBio Initiative at the Whitney Laboratory of Marine Bioscience! Our guides document the plant and animal species living in the Matanzas Basin, a coastal ecosystem stretching from St. Augustine to Palm Coast in NE Florida. They are works in ...more ↓

Virginia Whitetailed Deer 1
Odocoileus virginianus virginianus
Wild Pig 2
Sus scrofa
Coyote 3
Canis latrans
Red Fox 4
Vulpes vulpes
Domestic Cat 5
Felis catus
Bobcat 6
Lynx rufus floridanus
Striped Skunk 7
Mephitis mephitis elongata
Eastern Spotted Skunk
Spilogale putorius ambarvalis
Northern River Otter 8
Lontra canadensis
American Mink 9
Neovison vison lutensis
Common Raccoon 10
Procyon lotor elucus
Florida Black Bear 11
Ursus americanus floridanus
Bottlenose Dolphin 12
Tursiops truncatus
Eastern Red Bat 13
Lasiurus borealis
Seminole Bat 14
Lasiurus seminolus
Southeastern Myotis 15
Myotis austroriparius
Rafinesque's Big-Eared Bat 16
Corynorhinus rafinesquii
Nine-banded Armadillo 17
Dasypus novemcinctus novemcinctus
Virginia Opossum
Didelphis virginiana virginiana
Eastern Cottontail 18
Sylvilagus floridanus floridanus
Marsh Rabbit 19
Sylvilagus palustris paludicola
Southeastern Pocket Gopher 20
Geomys pinetis
House Mouse 21
Mus musculus
Round-tailed Muskrat 22
Neofiber alleni
Eastern Woodrat 23
Neotoma floridana floridana
Golden Mouse 24
Ochrotomys nuttalli
Marsh Rice Rat 25
Oryzomys palustris
Cotton Mouse 26
Peromyscus gossypinus gossypinus
Peromyscus polionotus phasma 27
Peromyscus polionotus polionotus 28
Florida Mouse 29
Podomys floridanus
Norway Rat 30
Rattus norvegicus
Black Rat 31
Rattus rattus
Eastern Harvest Mouse 32
Reithrodontomys humulis
Hispid Cotton Rat 33
Sigmodon hispidus
eastern flying squirrel 34
Glaucomys volans volans
Eastern Gray Squirrel 35
Sciurus carolinensis
Florida Manatee 19
Trichechus manatus latirostris
Blarina carolinensis carolinensis 36
Sorex longirostris spp. eonis 37
Domestic Dog 38
Canis lupus familiaris
Eastern Mole 39
Scalopus aquaticus australis
North Atlantic Right Whale 40
Eubalaena glacialis
Evening Bat 41
Nycticeius humeralis
Gray Fox 42
Urocyon cinereoargenteus

Edited by matbio, and Jose Nunez

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