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Tarrant County Vertebrate Animals

This is a list of vertebrate animals (i.e., those with a backbone) in Tarrant County, Texas.

Cave Myotis
Myotis velifer
Eastern Pipistrelle 1
Pipistrellus subflavus
Big Brown Bat 2
Eptesicus fuscus
Eastern Red Bat 3
Lasiurus borealis
Hoary Bat 4
Lasiurus cinereus
Evening Bat 5
Nycticeius humeralis
Silver-haired Bat 6
Lasionycteris noctivagans
Mexican Free-tailed Bat 7
Tadarida brasiliensis
Common Raccoon 8
Procyon lotor
Ringtail 9
Bassariscus astutus
North American River Otter 10
Lontra canadensis
American Badger 11
Taxidea taxus
Black-footed Ferret 12
Mustela nigripes
Long-tailed Weasel 13
Mustela frenata
Hooded Skunk 14
Mephitis macroura
Striped Skunk 15
Mephitis mephitis
Eastern Spotted Skunk 16
Spilogale putorius
Bobcat 17
Lynx rufus
Mountain Lion 18
Puma concolor
Coyote 19
Canis latrans
Red Fox 20
Vulpes vulpes
Gray Fox 21
Urocyon cinereoargenteus
Collared Peccary 22
Pecari tajacu
Wild Boar 23
Sus scrofa
White-tailed Deer 24
Odocoileus virginianus
American Bison 25
Bison bison
Virginia Opossum 26
Didelphis virginiana
Eastern Cottontail 27
Sylvilagus floridanus
Swamp Rabbit 28
Sylvilagus aquaticus
Black-tailed Jackrabbit 10
Lepus californicus
European Rabbit 29
Oryctolagus cuniculus
American Beaver 30
Castor canadensis
Nutria 31
Myocastor coypus
North American Porcupine 32
Erethizon dorsatum
Baird’s Pocket Gopher 33
Geomys breviceps
Plains Pocket Gopher 34
Geomys bursarius
Hispid Pocket Mouse 2
Chaetodipus hispidus
Woodland Vole
Microtus pinetorum
Texas Mouse 35
Peromyscus attwateri
White-footed Mouse 36
Peromyscus leucopus
Deer Mouse 37
Peromyscus maniculatus
Fulvous Harvest Mouse 31
Reithrodontomys fulvescens
Plains Harvest Mouse 38
Reithrodontomys montanus
Black Rat 39
Rattus rattus
Brown Rat 40
Rattus norvegicus
House Mouse 41
Mus musculus
Eastern Woodrat
Neotoma floridana
Southern Plains Woodrat 42
Neotoma micropus
Hispid Cotton Rat 43
Sigmodon hispidus
Northern Pygmy Mouse 31
Baiomys taylori
Muskrat 44
Ondatra zibethicus
Eastern Gray Squirrel 45
Sciurus carolinensis
Fox Squirrel 46
Sciurus niger
Black-tailed Prairie Dog 47
Cynomys ludovicianus
Southern Flying Squirrel 48
Glaucomys volans
North American Least Shrew 34
Cryptotis parva
Southern Short-tailed Shrew 49
Blarina carolinensis
Crawford's Gray Shrew 50
Notiosorex crawfordi
Eastern Mole 51
Scalopus aquaticus
Nine-banded Armadillo 52
Dasypus novemcinctus
Domestic Cattle 53
Bos taurus
American Mink 18
Neovison vison
Domestic Cat 54
Felis catus
Domestic Goat 55
Capra hircus

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