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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.

Eastern Cottontail 1
Sylvilagus floridanus
Swamp Rabbit 2
Sylvilagus aquaticus
Black-tailed Jackrabbit 3
Lepus californicus
European Rabbit 4
Oryctolagus cuniculus
American Beaver 5
Castor canadensis
Nutria 6
Myocastor coypus
North American Porcupine 7
Erethizon dorsatum
Baird’s Pocket Gopher 8
Geomys breviceps
Plains Pocket Gopher 9
Geomys bursarius
Hispid Pocket Mouse 10
Chaetodipus hispidus
Woodland Vole
Microtus pinetorum
Texas Mouse 11
Peromyscus attwateri
White-footed Mouse 12
Peromyscus leucopus
Deer Mouse 13
Peromyscus maniculatus
Fulvous Harvest Mouse 6
Reithrodontomys fulvescens
Plains Harvest Mouse 14
Reithrodontomys montanus
Black Rat 15
Rattus rattus
Brown Rat 16
Rattus norvegicus
House Mouse 17
Mus musculus
Eastern Woodrat
Neotoma floridana
Southern Plains Woodrat 18
Neotoma micropus
Hispid Cotton Rat 19
Sigmodon hispidus
Northern Pygmy Mouse 6
Baiomys taylori
Muskrat 20
Ondatra zibethicus
Eastern Gray Squirrel 21
Sciurus carolinensis
Fox Squirrel 22
Sciurus niger
Black-tailed Prairie Dog 23
Cynomys ludovicianus
Southern Flying Squirrel 24
Glaucomys volans

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