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Wildlife of Virginia Beach

The Virginia Beach is home to many non-aquatic, aquatic, and semi-aquatic species. Here is a guide to them all.

Striped Mud Turtle 1
Kinosternon baurii
Painted Turtle 2
Chrysemys picta
Common Slider 3
Trachemys scripta
Common Box Turtle 4
Terrapene carolina
Northern Red-bellied Cooter 5
Pseudemys rubriventris
River Cooter 6
Pseudemys concinna
Diamondback Terrapin 7
Malaclemys terrapin
Afghan Tortoise 8
Testudo horsfieldii
Little Brown Bat 9
Myotis lucifugus
Eastern Pipistrelle 10
Pipistrellus subflavus
Big Brown Bat 11
Eptesicus fuscus
Seminole Bat 12
Lasiurus seminolus
Eastern Red Bat 13
Lasiurus borealis
Hoary Bat 14
Lasiurus cinereus
Northern Yellow Bat 15
Lasiurus intermedius
Evening Bat 16
Nycticeius humeralis
Silver-haired Bat 17
Lasionycteris noctivagans
Gervais' Beaked Whale 18
Mesoplodon europaeus
True's Beaked Whale 19
Mesoplodon mirus
Common Porpoise 20
Phocoena phocoena
Pygmy Sperm Whale 21
Kogia breviceps
Gray Whale 22
Eschrichtius robustus
Common Bottlenose Dolphin 23
Tursiops truncatus
Striped Dolphin 24
Stenella coeruleoalba
Clymene Dolphin 25
Stenella clymene
Spinner Dolphin 26
Stenella longirostris
Pantropical Spotted Dolphin 27
Stenella attenuata
Atlantic Spotted Dolphin 28
Stenella frontalis
Orca 29
Orcinus orca
Short-beaked Common Dolphin 30
Delphinus delphis
Long-finned Pilot Whale 31
Globicephala melas
Short-finned Pilot Whale 32
Globicephala macrorhynchus
Risso's Dolphin 33
Grampus griseus
Blue Whale 34
Balaenoptera musculus
Eden's Whale 35
Balaenoptera edeni
Sei Whale 36
Balaenoptera borealis
Fin Whale 37
Balaenoptera physalus
Humpback Whale 38
Megaptera novaeangliae
North Atlantic Right Whale 39
Eubalaena glacialis
American Black Bear 40
Ursus americanus
Common Raccoon 41
Procyon lotor
Common Seal 34
Phoca vitulina
North American River Otter 42
Lontra canadensis
Long-tailed Weasel 43
Mustela frenata
Bobcat 44
Lynx rufus
Coyote 45
Canis latrans
Red Fox 46
Vulpes vulpes
Gray Fox 47
Urocyon cinereoargenteus
Wild Boar 48
Sus scrofa
White-tailed Deer 49
Odocoileus virginianus
Virginia Opossum 50
Didelphis virginiana
Marsh Rabbit 51
Sylvilagus palustris
Eastern Cottontail 52
Sylvilagus floridanus
American Beaver 53
Castor canadensis
Meadow Jumping Mouse 54
Zapus hudsonius
Coypu 55
Myocastor coypus
Meadow Vole 56
Microtus pennsylvanicus
Greater Bee Fly 57
Bombylius major
purple passionflower 58
Passiflora incarnata
Largehead Hairtail 59
Trichiurus lepturus
yellow passionflower 60
Passiflora lutea
Striped Bass 61
Morone saxatilis
Oyster Toadfish 62
Opsanus tau
Chain Pickerel 63
Esox niger
Golden Shiner
Notemigonus crysoleucas
Red Swamp Crayfish 64
Procambarus clarkii
American white waterlily 65
Nymphaea odorata
Eastern Carpenter Bee 66
Xylocopa virginica
Weeping fig 67
Ficus benjamina
Gray Hairstreak 68
Strymon melinus
common pawpaw 69
Asimina triloba
Jelly Ear 70
Auricularia auricula-judae
Fiery Skipper 71
Hylephila phyleus
common lantana 72
Lantana camara
Jack-in-the-pulpit 73
Arisaema triphyllum
Virginia creeper 74
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Spanish needles 75
Bidens bipinnata
Halloween Pennant 76
Celithemis eponina
Horace's Duskywing 77
Erynnis horatius
Spotted Turtle 78
Clemmys guttata
Pipevine Swallowtail 79
Battus philenor
narrow-leaved blue-eyed grass 80
Sisyrinchium angustifolium
Sheepshead 81
Archosargus probatocephalus
Blinded Sphinx 82
Paonias excaecata
oak mistletoe 1
Phoradendron leucarpum
baldcypress 83
Taxodium distichum
American sycamore 84
Platanus occidentalis
American sweetgum
Liquidambar styraciflua
Pumpkinseed 85
Lepomis gibbosus
Grey Triggerfish 86
Balistes capriscus
Black Crappie 87
Pomoxis nigromaculatus
Bluegill 88
Lepomis macrochirus
Largemouth Bass 63
Micropterus salmoides
Spanish moss 89
Tillandsia usneoides
Six-spotted Tiger Beetle 90
Cicindela sexguttata
House Centipede 91
Scutigera coleoptrata
Spinybacked Orbweaver 92
Gasteracantha cancriformis
Atlantic Blue Crab 93
Callinectes sapidus
Ghost Pipes 94
Monotropa uniflora
Pigfish 95
Orthopristis chrysoptera

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