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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.

American Beaver 1
Castor canadensis
Nutria 2
Myocastor coypus
North American Porcupine 3
Erethizon dorsatum
Baird’s Pocket Gopher 4
Geomys breviceps
Plains Pocket Gopher 5
Geomys bursarius
Hispid Pocket Mouse 6
Chaetodipus hispidus
Woodland Vole
Microtus pinetorum
Texas Mouse 7
Peromyscus attwateri
White-footed Mouse 8
Peromyscus leucopus
Deer Mouse 9
Peromyscus maniculatus
Fulvous Harvest Mouse 2
Reithrodontomys fulvescens
Plains Harvest Mouse 10
Reithrodontomys montanus
Black Rat 11
Rattus rattus
Brown Rat 12
Rattus norvegicus
House Mouse 13
Mus musculus
Eastern Woodrat
Neotoma floridana
Southern Plains Woodrat 14
Neotoma micropus
Hispid Cotton Rat 15
Sigmodon hispidus
Northern Pygmy Mouse 2
Baiomys taylori
Muskrat 16
Ondatra zibethicus
Eastern Gray Squirrel 17
Sciurus carolinensis
Fox Squirrel 18
Sciurus niger
Black-tailed Prairie Dog 19
Cynomys ludovicianus
Southern Flying Squirrel 20
Glaucomys volans

Edited by Joshua (Josh) Quiring, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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