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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 ↓

Eastern Cottontail 1
Sylvilagus floridanus floridanus
Southeastern Pocket Gopher 2
Geomys pinetis
House Mouse 3
Mus musculus
Round-tailed Muskrat 4
Neofiber alleni
Eastern Woodrat 5
Neotoma floridana floridana
Golden Mouse 6
Ochrotomys nuttalli
Marsh Rice Rat 7
Oryzomys palustris
Cotton Mouse 8
Peromyscus gossypinus gossypinus
Peromyscus polionotus phasma 9
Peromyscus polionotus polionotus 10
Florida Mouse 11
Podomys floridanus
Norway Rat 12
Rattus norvegicus
Black Rat 13
Rattus rattus
Eastern Harvest Mouse 14
Reithrodontomys humulis
Hispid Cotton Rat 15
Sigmodon hispidus
eastern flying squirrel 16
Glaucomys volans volans
Eastern Gray Squirrel 17
Sciurus carolinensis

Edited by matbio and Jose Nunez

Photo Credits

  • 1. (c) James Steamer, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by James Steamer
  • 2. (c) Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Mammals, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
  • 3. (c) Davide, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
  • 4. Wikimedia Commons, no known copyright restrictions (public domain)
  • 5. (c) Richard Barnes, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Richard Barnes
  • 6. (c) northganaturalist, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by northganaturalist
  • 7. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (presumably), no known copyright restrictions (public domain)
  • 8. (c) Francois Michonneau, some rights reserved (CC BY)
  • 9. United States National Park Service, no known copyright restrictions (public domain)
  • 10. Roger W. Barbour, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, no known copyright restrictions (public domain)
  • 11. (c) Florida Fish and Wildlife, some rights reserved (CC BY-ND)
  • 12. (c) Mark Philpott, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
  • 13. (c) Alex O'Neal, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
  • 14. (c) Daniel Folds, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Daniel Folds
  • 15. (c) J. N. Stuart, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
  • 16. (c) Stephen Durrenberger, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)
  • 17. (c) David Friel, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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