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List Of Fauna Of Oregon
This is a list of species of fauna (animals) that have been observed in the U.S. state of Oregon. Amphibians Caudata *Oregon slender salamander Reptiles Serpentes *California mountain kingsnake - Native to Oregon *Common garter snake - Native to Oregon. *Common kingsnake Native to Oregon *Gopher snake - Native to Oregon * Ground snake - Owyhee River *Night snake - Native to Oregon * Northwestern garter snake - Native to Oregon *Pacific rattlesnake- Native to Oregon * Racer - Native to Oregon *Ringneck snake - Native to Oregon *Rubber boa - Native to Oregon * Sharptail snake - Native to Oregon *Striped whipsnake - Native to Oregon *Western rattlesnake - Found in Eastern Oregon *Western terrestrial garter snake - Native to Oregon Testudines *Snapping turtle - Introduced into Oregon. *Western painted turtle - Native to Oregon. Annelids Haplotaxida *Oregon giant earthworm Birds *List of birds of Oregon Crustaceans Notostraca *Branchinecta lynchi - Als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oregon
Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho. The 42nd parallel north, 42° north parallel delineates the southern boundary with California and Nevada. Oregon has been home to many Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous nations for thousands of years. The first European traders, explorers, and settlers began exploring what is now Oregon's Pacific coast in the early-mid 16th century. As early as 1564, the Spanish expeditions to the Pacific Northwest, Spanish began sending vessels northeast from the Philippines, riding the Kuroshio Current in a sweeping circular route across the northern part of the Pacific. In 1592, Juan de Fuca undertook detailed mapping and studies of ocean currents in the Pacific Northwest, including the Oregon coast as well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snapping Turtle
The Chelydridae is a family of turtles that has seven extinct and two extant genera. The extant genera are the snapping turtles, ''Chelydra'' and '' Macrochelys''. Both are endemic to the Western Hemisphere. The extinct genera are '' Acherontemys'', '' Chelydrops'', '' Chelydropsis'', ''Emarginachelys'', '' Macrocephalochelys'', '' Planiplastron'', and '' Protochelydra''. Fossil history The Chelydridae have a long fossil history, with extinct species reported from North America as well as all over Asia and Europe, far outside their present range. The earliest described chelydrid is '' Emarginachelys cretacea'', known from well-preserved fossils from the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous of Montana. Another well-preserved fossil chelydrid is the Late Paleocene ''Protochelydra zangerli'' from North Dakota. The carapace of ''P. zangerli'' is higher-domed than that of the recent ''Chelydra'', a trait conjectured to be associated with the coexistence of large, turtle-eatin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Common Thresher
The common thresher (''Alopias vulpinus''), also known as Atlantic thresher, is the largest species of thresher shark, family Alopiidae, reaching some in length. About half of its length consists of the elongated upper lobe of its caudal fin. With a streamlined body, short pointed snout, and modestly sized eyes, the common thresher resembles (and has often been confused with) the pelagic thresher (''A. pelagicus''). It can be distinguished from the latter species by the white of its belly extending in a band over the bases of its pectoral fins. The common thresher is distributed worldwide in tropical and temperate waters, though it prefers cooler temperatures. It can be found both close to shore and in the open ocean, from the surface to a depth of . It is seasonally migratory and spends summers at lower latitudes. The long tail of the common thresher, the source of many fanciful tales through history, is used in a whip-like fashion to deliver incapacitating blows to its prey. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Sturgeon
White sturgeon (''Acipenser transmontanus'') is a species of sturgeon in the family Acipenseridae of the order Acipenseriformes. They are an anadromous fish species ranging in the Eastern Pacific; from the Gulf of Alaska to Monterey, California. However, some are landlocked in the Columbia River Drainage, Montana, and Lake Shasta in California, with reported sightings in northern Baja California, Mexico. cipenser transmontanus summary page. (n.d.). Retrieved October 04, 2017, from https://www.fishbase.se/summary/2594/ref> Description ''A. transmontanus'' is distinguished by the two rows of four to eight ganoid bony plates between the anus and anal fin, with about 45 rays present in the dorsal fin. Coloring can range from gray to brownish on the dorsal side, paler on the ventral side, and gray fins. Barbels are situated anterior to the mouth, closer to the snout than the mouth. At sexual maturity, ''A. transmontanus'' can reach in length, while the maximum length recorded o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Sturgeon
The green sturgeon (''Acipenser medirostris'') is a species of sturgeon native to the northern Pacific Ocean, from China and Russia to Canada and the United States. Description Sturgeons are among the largest and most ancient of ray finned fishes. They are placed, along with paddlefishes and numerous fossil groups, in the infraclass Chondrostei, which also contains the ancestors of all other bony fishes. The sturgeons themselves are not ancestral to modern bony fishes but are a highly specialized and successful offshoot of ancestral chondrosteans, retaining such ancestral features as a heterocercal tail, fin structure, jaw structure, and spiracle. They have replaced a bony skeleton with one of cartilage, and possess a few large bony plates instead of scales. Sturgeons are highly adapted for preying on bottom animals, which they detect with a row of sensitive barbels on the underside of their snouts. They protrude their very long and flexible “lips” to suck up foo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modoc Sucker
The Modoc sucker (''Catostomus microps'') is a rare species of freshwater fish native to northern California and southern Oregon. It grows to a length of about and becomes sexually mature at . It feeds on algae, small invertebrates and detritus, and hides under stones, detritus and overhanging vegetation. It is found in only a few streams and is listed as an endangered species in California and the United States. Conservation measures have been put in place such as fencing the streams in which it lives from livestock. It was previously rated as "endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, but this rating has now been changed to "near threatened". Description This sucker is mature when it reaches 3 to 4 inches long; the adult is usually no more than 7 inches longUSFWS''Catostomus microps'' Five-year Review.August 2009. but it rarely exceeds 13 inches. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost River Sucker
The Lost River sucker (''Deltistes luxatus'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Catostomidae. It is the only living member of the genus ''Deltistes''. It is found only in California and Oregon. Its population is much reduced from historical numbers for a number of reasons. It is federally listed as an endangered species of the United States. This species is known as the C'waam by the local Native American Nation, the Klamath Tribes. Description This fish is one of the largest suckers, capable of reaching in length. It can be identified by its long snout with a small hump on top. It is dark on the back and sides and whitish or yellowish on the belly.USFWS''Deltistes luxatus'' Recovery Plan.(March 1993). Retrieved October 6, 2011. Its lifespan can exceed 40 years. USGS Western Fisheries Research Center, Klamath Falls Field Station. R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shortnose Sucker
The shortnose sucker (''Chasmistes brevirostris'') is a rare species of fish in the family Catostomidae, the suckers. This fish is native to southern Oregon and northern California in the United States. It is a federally listed endangered species of the United States. This fish can grow up to half a meter long. It has a large head and thin, fleshy lips, the lower of which is notched. It has been observed to reach 33 years of age. It becomes sexually mature between four and six years of age.USFWS''Chasmistes brevirostris'' Five-year Review.July 2007. The preferable habitat for the fish is a turbid, shallow, somewhat alkaline, well-oxygenated lake that is cool, but not cold, in the summer season. The fish usually spawns in flowing river habitat, such as riffles, with gravelly or rocky substrates. It was at one time observed to spawn at lakeshores, but it apparently does this rarely today. The eggs incubate for two weeks and the juveniles hatch between April and June. The juveniles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Sucker
The Warner sucker (''Catostomus warnerensis'') is a rare species of freshwater ray-finned fish in the family Catostomidae. Native to Oregon in the United States and found only in the Warner Lakes, Warner Basin, its distribution extends just into Nevada''Catostomus warnerensis''. The Nature Conservancy. and California.USFWS ''Catostomus warnerensis'' Five-year Review. August 2010. It is a federally listed threatened species. Its other common name is redhorse.Williams, J. E. (1995) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackson County, Oregon
Jackson County is one of the Oregon counties, 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 223,259. The county seat is Medford, Oregon, Medford. The county Oregon Geographic Names, is named for Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States. Jackson County comprises the Medford, OR Metropolitan Statistical Area. There are 11 municipal corporation, incorporated cities and 34 unincorporated community, unincorporated communities in Jackson County; the largest is Medford, which has been the county seat since 1927. History Modoc people, Modoc, Shasta (tribe), Shasta, Takelma, Latgawa, and Umpqua (Native Americans), Umpqua Indian tribes are all native to the region of present Jackson County. Prior to the 1850s, the Klickitat Tribe, Klickitats from the north raided the area. The ''Territorial Legislature'' created Jackson County on January 12, 1852, from the southwestern portion of Lane County, Oregon, Lane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepidurus Packardi
''Lepidurus packardi'', known by the common name vernal pool tadpole shrimp, is a rare species of tadpole shrimp (Notostraca). Distribution The freshwater crustacean is endemic to California, where it lives in the endangered vernal pool type of habitat, and other freshwater aquatic habitats including ponds, reservoirs, ditches, road ruts, and other natural and artificial temporary water bodies. The animal is found in several regions of California, including the Central Coast, Sacramento Valley, San Joaquin Valley, and southern Sierra Nevada foothills. The southeastern Sacramento Valley contains about 15% of the remaining vernal pool grassland habitat in the state, and it has about 35% of the known occurrences of ''L. packardi''. 28% of all occurrences are in Sacramento County, California. Other areas with occurrences include the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, several preserves in Tehama County, and the vicinity of the cities of Chico, Redding, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Branchinecta Lynchi
The vernal pool fairy shrimp, ''Branchinecta lynchi'', is a species of freshwater crustacean in the family Branchinectidae. It is endemic to the U.S. states of Oregon and California, living in vernal pools as well as non-vernal pool habitat. They range in size from long. Vernal pool fairy shrimp are listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List, and has been listed as Federally Threatened species since 1994. Description Vernal pool fairy shrimp are usually translucent, however some have been observed to be white or orange. They feature stalked compound eyes, no carapace, and eleven pairs of legs. The fairy shrimp swim by moving their legs from front to back in a wave-like motion. They eat algae, bacteria, protozoa, rotifers, and detritus, and are eaten by birds and other animals, notably by the tadpoles of spadefoot toads. Vernal pool fairy shrimp have a lifetime of about two months. They usually hatch in early January, and die in early March. The female fairy s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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