This is a list of fauna found in the U.S. state of Michigan, including those of wider distribution. See also

List of threatened fauna of Michigan The list of threatened fauna of Michigan includes almost 400 endangered, threatened and special concern species that are located in Michigan as a part of the fauna of the United States. Endangered and threatened species in Michigan are protected ...

Invertebrates

Cnidaria

* '' Craspedacusta sowerbyi''

Arthropods

Arachnids

* European garden spider *''

Misumenops celer ''Mecaphesa celer'', known generally as the swift crab spider, is a species of crab spider in the family Thomisidae. Its range is quite large, and it is found throughout much of North and Central America. ''M. celer'' are sit-and-wait predators ...

Crustaceans

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Armadillidium vulgare ''Armadillidium vulgare'', the common pill-bug, potato bug, common pill woodlouse, roly-poly, slater, doodle bug, or carpenter, is a widespread European species of woodlouse. It is the most extensively investigated terrestrial isopod species. ...

'' (common pillbug) * '' Cambarus diogenes'' (chimney crayfish) * '' Cambarus robustus'' (big water crayfish) * ''

Creaserinus fodiens ''Creaserinus'' is a genus of Digger Crayfish in the family Cambaridae. There are about 15 described species in ''Creaserinus'', found in North America. This genus was formerly considered a subgenus of ''Fallicambarus ''Fallicambarus'' is a g ...

'' (digger crayfish) * '' Faxonius immunis'' (calico crayfish) * '' Faxonius propinquus'' (northern clearwater crayfish) * ''Faxonius rusticus'' (

rusty crayfish The rusty crayfish (''Faxonius rusticus'') is a large, aggressive species of freshwater crayfish which is native to the United States, in the Ohio River Basin in parts of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. Its range is rapidly expanding across much of ...

) * ''

Faxonius virilis ''Faxonius virilis'' is a species of crayfish known as the virile crayfish, northern crayfish, eastern crayfish, and lesser known as the lake crayfish or common crawfish. ''Faxonius virilis'' was reclassified in August 2017, and the genus was chan ...

'' (northern crayfish) * '' Procambarus acutus acutus'' (white river crawfish)

Insects

=Coleoptera

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Brychius hungerfordi Hungerford's crawling water beetle (''Brychius hungerfordi'') is a critically endangered member of the family Haliplidae of water beetles. The US Fish and Wildlife Service Draft Recovery Plan for the species published in August 2004 estimates ro ...

'' * '' Cicindela sexguttata'' * '' Colorado potato beetle'' * ''

Desmocerus palliatus The elderberry borer, ''Desmocerus palliatus'', is a species of Cerambycidae that occurs in Eastern North America. Description The adult is 17 to 26 mm, mostly a shimmering dark blue, and the bases of the elytra are yellow to yellow-red. ...

'' * '' Harmonia axyridis'' * ''

Megacyllene robiniae ''Megacyllene robiniae'', commonly known as the locust borer, is a species of longhorn beetle endemic to eastern North America. It is a serious pest of ''Robinia pseudoacacia'', the black locust tree, with which it is sympatric. Etymology The ...

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Neandra brunnea ''Neandra brunnea'', the pole borer, is a species of the longhorn beetle family, subfamily Parandrinae. The longhorn beetle grows between 8 and and is yellowish-brown or reddish-brown in colour with relatively short, serrate antennae. Its range ...

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Rhyssomatus lineaticollis ''Rhyssomatus lineaticollis'', also known by its common name milkweed stem weevil is a species of weevil whose adults feed on the stems of the common milkweed, ''Asclepias syriaca''. It is also destructive to the rare and threatened milkweed spec ...

=Diptera

= *'' Chironomus plumosus''

=Dictyoptera

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Chinese mantis The Chinese mantis (''Tenodera sinensis'') is a species of mantis native to Asia and the nearby islands. In 1896 this species was accidentally introduced by a nursery tender at Mt. Airy near Philadelphia, United States. ''Tenodera sinensis'' oft ...

(introduced)

=Hemiptera

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Adelphocoris lineolatus ''Adelphocoris lineolatus'', is commonly known as the Lucerne bug or the alfalfa plant bug, and belongs to the family Miridae. It is an agricultural pest causing vast amounts of damage to numerous crops, but primarily to alfalfa crops around the ...

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Green stink bug The green stink bug or green soldier bug (''Chinavia hilaris'') is a stink bug of the family Pentatomidae. Taxonomy The species was previously placed in the genus ''Acrosternum'' but has been classified as in the genus ''Chinavia'' in the more ...

* Large milkweed bug

=Hymenoptera

= *'' Dolichovespula maculata'' *''

Polistes dominulus The European paper wasp (''Polistes dominula'') is one of the most common and well-known species of social wasps in the genus '' Polistes''. Its diet is more diverse than those of most ''Polistes'' species—many genera of insects versus mainly ...

'' *'' Polistes exclamans'' *'' Polistes fuscatus'' *'' Polistes metricus'' *'' Vespa crabro'' *''

Vespula maculifrons The eastern yellow jacket or eastern yellowjacket (''Vespula maculifrons'') is a wasp found in eastern North America.Hoffman, Eric A., Kovacs, Jennifer L. and Goodisman, Michael A. D. (August 20, 2008). Genetic structure and breeding system in a ...

=Lepidoptera

=Odonata

= * Blue dasher *''

Erythemis simplicicollis ''Erythemis simplicicollis'', the eastern pondhawk, also known as the common pondhawk, is a dragonfly of the family Libellulidae, native to the eastern two-thirds of the United States and southern Ontario and Quebec, Canada. It is a dragonfly of ...

'' * Green darner *'' Ischnura posita'' *'' Lestes vigilax'' *''

Sympetrum vicinum ''Sympetrum vicinum'', the yellow-legged meadowhawk or autumn meadowhawk, is a member of the Libellulidae family. It grows to 26–35 mm long. Description Naiad This species has a small naiad, with a length of . It is mottled green and b ...

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Variable dancer The variable dancer (''Argia fumipennis'') is a damselfly of the family Coenagrionidae. It is native to North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bo ...

=Orthoptera

= * Differential grasshopper *''

Gryllus pennsylvanicus ''Gryllus pennsylvanicus'' is known as the fall field cricket. ''G. pennsylvanicus'' is common in southern Ontario, is widespread across much of North AmericaAlexander, R. D. 1968. Life cycle origins, speciation, and related phenomena in crickets ...

'' * Barrens or spotted-winged grasshopper * Spur-throat grasshopper * Blue-legged locust * Hebard's green-legged locust * Hoosier locust * Atlantic-coast or long-horned grasshopper * Lake Huron locust * Secretive locust * Post-oak grasshopper *'' Ceuthophilus silvestris'' *'' Ceuthophilus uhleri'' * Woodland meadow katydid *

Bog conehead A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main Wetland#Types, types of wetlands. Other names for bogs include mire, mosses, quagmire, ...

*'' Neoconocephalus retusus'' * Eelicate meadow katydid * Pine katydid * Davis's shield-bearer * Melodious ground cricket * Tamarack tree cricket * Pine tree cricket

Entognatha

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Willowsia nigromaculata ''Willowsia nigromaculata'' is a member of the family Entomobryidae Entomobryidae, sometimes called "slender springtails", is a family of springtails characterised by having an enlarged fourth abdominal segmentation (biology), segment and a ...

Molluscs

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Planogyra asteriscus ''Planogyra astericus'', common name the eastern flat-whorl, is a species of small air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Valloniidae. This species is listed as of "Special Concern" in the U.S. state o ...

'' (eastern flat-whorl) *Giant floater (''

Pyganodon grandis ''Pyganodon grandis'', the giant floater, is a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. This species is fast-growing, large, and has a short lifespan. This species is native to the Un ...

'') * Northern riffleshell (''Epioblasma torulosa'') * Quagga mussel (''Dreissena rostriformis bugensis'') * Zebra mussel (''Dreissena polymorpha'')

Vertebrates

Amphibians

Birds

''Longer list a
Michigan Breeding birds Atlas
Appendix 3'' Turkeys in Clyde

Dendroica kirtlandii -Michigan, USA -male-8 (5)

Picoides pubescens -Michigan, USA -male-8

* American bittern (''Botanus lentiginosus'') * American black duck (''Anas rubripes)'' * American coot (''Fulica americana'') * American crow (''Corvus brachyrhynchos'') * American goldfinch (''Carduelis tristis'') * American kestrel (''Falco sparverius'') *

American white pelican The American white pelican (''Pelecanus erythrorhynchos'') is a large aquatic soaring bird from the order Pelecaniformes. It breeds in interior North America, moving south and to the coasts, as far as Central America and South America, in winte ...

(''Pelecanus erythrorhynchos'') *

Bald eagle The bald eagle (''Haliaeetus leucocephalus'') is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known subspecies and forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle (''Haliaeetus albicilla''), which occupies the same niche as ...

(''Haliaeetus leucocephalus'') *

Baltimore oriole The Baltimore oriole (''Icterus galbula'') is a small icterid blackbird common in eastern North America as a migratory breeding bird. It received its name from the resemblance of the male's colors to those on the coat-of-arms of 17th century L ...

(''Icterus galbula'') *

Barn owl The barn owl (''Tyto alba'') is the most widely distributed species of owl in the world and one of the most widespread of all species of birds, being found almost everywhere except for the polar and desert regions, Asia north of the Himalaya ...

(''Tyto alba'') *

Belted kingfisher The belted kingfisher (''Megaceryle alcyon'') is a large, conspicuous water kingfisher, native to North America. All kingfishers were formerly placed in one family, Alcedinidae, but recent research suggests that this should be divided into three ...

(''Megaceryle alcyon'') * Black tern (''Chlidonias niger'') *

Black-backed woodpecker The black-backed woodpecker (''Picoides arcticus''), also known as the Arctic three-toed woodpecker, is a medium-sized woodpecker ( long) inhabiting the forests of North America. Taxonomy The black-backed woodpecker was described and illustrat ...

(''Picoides arcticus'') * Black-capped chickadee (''Poecile atricapillus'') * Snow goose (''Chen caerulescens'') * Bobolink (''Dolichonyx oryzivorus'') * Bobwhite quail (''Colinus virginianus'') * Boreal chickadee (''Poecile hudsonicus'') * Brant goose (''Branta bernicla'') * Bonaparte's gull (''Larus philadelphia'') * Broad-winged hawk (''Buteo platypterus'') * Brown-headed cowbird (''Molothrus ater'') *

Canada goose The Canada goose (''Branta canadensis''), or Canadian goose, is a large wild goose with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body. It is native to the arctic and temperate regions of North America, and it is o ...

(''Branta canadensis'') * Canvasback (''Aythya valisineria'') *

Cardinal Cardinal or The Cardinal may refer to: Animals * Cardinal (bird) or Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds **''Cardinalis'', genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae **''Cardinalis cardinalis'', or northern cardinal, the ...

(''Cardinalis cardinalis'') * Caspian tern (''Sterna caspia'') * Common loon (''Gavia immer'') * Common nighthawk (''Chordeiles minor'') * Common raven (''Corvis corax'') * Common tern (''Sterna hirundo'') * Double-crested cormorant (''Phalacrocorax auritus'') * Dovekie (''Alle alle'') * Downy woodpecker (''Dryobates pubescens'') * Eastern meadowlark (''Sturnella magna'') * Forster's tern (''Sterna forsteri'') * Gray catbird (''Dumetella carolinensis'') *

Great blue heron The great blue heron (''Ardea herodias'') is a large wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae, common near the shores of open water and in wetlands over most of North America and Central America, as well as the Caribbean and the Galápagos ...

(''Ardea herodias'') * Great egret (''Ardea alba'') * Great horned owl (''Bubo virginianus'') * Greater yellowlegs (''Tringa flavipes'') *

Green heron The green heron (''Butorides virescens'') is a small heron of North and Central America. ''Butorides'' is from Middle English ''butor'' "bittern" and Ancient Greek ''-oides'', "resembling", and ''virescens'' is Latin for "greenish". It was long c ...

(''Butorides virescens'') * Hairy woodpecker * Henslow's sparrow (''Ammodramus henslowii'') * Herring gull (''Larus argentantus'') * House finch *

House sparrow The house sparrow (''Passer domesticus'') is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in most parts of the world. It is a small bird that has a typical length of and a mass of . Females and young birds are coloured pale brown and grey, a ...

* King eider (''Somateria spectabilis'') *

King rail The king rail (''Rallus elegans'') is a waterbird, the largest North American rail. Description Distinct features are a long bill with a slight downward curve, with adults being brown on the back and rusty-brown on the face and breast with a da ...

(''Rallus elegans'') * Kirtland's warbler (''Dendroica kirtlandii'') * Least bittern (''Ixobrychus exilis'') * Lesser yellowlegs (''Tringa melanoleuca'') * Loggerhead shrike (''Lanius ludovicianus'') * Long-eared owl (''Asio otis'') * Long-tailed duck (''Clangula hyemalis'') *

Mallard The mallard () or wild duck (''Anas platyrhynchos'') is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Arge ...

* Merganser *

Merlin Merlin ( cy, Myrddin, kw, Marzhin, br, Merzhin) is a mythical figure prominently featured in the legend of King Arthur and best known as a mage, with several other main roles. His usual depiction, based on an amalgamation of historic and le ...

(''Falco columbarius'') * Mourning dove (''Zenaida macroura'') *

Mute swan The mute swan (''Cygnus olor'') is a species of swan and a member of the waterfowl family Anatidae. It is native to much of Eurosiberia, and (as a rare winter visitor) the far north of Africa. It is an introduced species in North America, home ...

Northern flicker The northern flicker or common flicker (''Colaptes auratus'') is a medium-sized bird of the woodpecker family. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker spec ...

* Northern gannet (''Morus bassanus'') (rare in state) *

Northern goshawk The northern goshawk (; ''Accipiter gentilis'') is a species of medium-large bird of prey, raptor in the Family (biology), family Accipitridae, a family which also includes other extant diurnal raptors, such as eagles, buzzards and harrier (bird) ...

* Northern harrier (''Circus cyaneus'') * Northern mockingbird (''Mimus polyglottos'') * Northern shoveler (''Spatula clypeata'') * Osprey (''Pandion haliaetus'') *

Peregrine falcon The peregrine falcon (''Falco peregrinus''), also known as the peregrine, and historically as the duck hawk in North America, is a Cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan bird of prey (Bird of prey, raptor) in the family (biology), family Falco ...

(''Falco peregrinus'') * Pheasant * Pigeon * Pileated woodpecker (''Dryocuopus pileatus'') * Pintail duck (''Anas acuta'') *

Piping plover The piping plover (''Charadrius melodus'') is a small sand-colored, sparrow-sized shorebird that nests and feeds along coastal sand and gravel beaches in North America. The adult has yellow-orange-red legs, a black band across the forehead from e ...

(''Charadrius melodus'') * Prairie warbler (''Dendroica discolor'') *

Purple martin The purple martin (''Progne subis'') is a passerine bird in the swallow family Hirundinidae. It is the largest swallow in North America. Despite its name, the purple martin is not truly purple. The dark blackish-blue feathers have an iridescent s ...

(''Progne subis'') *

Red crossbill The red crossbill or common crossbill (''Loxia curvirostra'') is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. Crossbills have distinctive mandibles, crossed at the tips, which enable them to extract seeds from conifer cones and other ...

(''Loxia curvirostra'') * Redhead duck * Red-shouldered hawk (''Buteo lineatus'') * Red-tailed hawk * Red-throated loon * Red-winged blackbird * Ring-billed gull (''Larus delawarensis'') *

Robin Robin may refer to: Animals * Australasian robins, red-breasted songbirds of the family Petroicidae * Many members of the subfamily Saxicolinae (Old World chats), including: **European robin (''Erithacus rubecula'') **Bush-robin **Forest rob ...

* Ross's goose * Ruby-throated hummingbird * Ruffed grouse *

Rusty blackbird The rusty blackbird (''Euphagus carolinus'') is a medium-sized New World blackbird, closely related to grackles ("rusty grackle" is an older name for the species). It is a bird that prefers wet forested areas, breeding in the boreal forest and mu ...

(''Euphagus carolinus'') * Sandhill crane (''Grus canadensis'') * Scarlet tanager (''Piranga olivacea'') *

Scaup Scaup is the common name for three species of diving duck: * Greater scaup, or just "scaup", ''Aythya marila'' * Lesser scaup, ''Aythya affinis'' * New Zealand scaup, ''Aythya novaeseelandiae'' External links

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* Scoters * Sharptailed grouse * Short-eared owl (''Asio flammeus'') * Snipe * Snowy owl *

Sora rail The sora (''Porzana carolina'') is a small waterbird of the rail family Rallidae, sometimes also referred to as the sora rail or sora crake, that occurs throughout much of North America. The genus name ''Porzana'' is derived from Venetian terms ...

* Spruce grouse (''Canachites canadensis'') * Trumpeter swan (''Cygnus buccinator'') * Tundra swan * Turkey vulture (''Cathartes aura'') * Upland sandpiper (''Bartramia longicauda'') * Virginia rail * Western meadowlark (''Sturnella neglecta'') * White-fronted goose * White pelican * Wild turkey (''Meleagris gallopavo'') * Willet (''Tringa semipalmata'') * Wilson's phalarope (''Phalaropus tricolor'') * Wood duck * Woodcock * Yellow rail (''Corturnicops noveboracensis'') * Yellow-throated warbler (''Dendroica dominica'')

Extinct

* Passenger pigeon (''Ectopistes migratorius'') *

Heath hen The heath hen (''Tympanuchus cupido cupido'') is an extinct subspecies of the greater prairie chicken (''Tympanuchus cupido''), a large North American bird in the grouse family. It became extinct in 1932. Heath hens lived in the scrubby heath ...

(''Tympanuchus cupido cupido'') * Carolina parakeet (''Conuropsis carolinensis'')

Fish

* Alewife (''Alosa pseudoharengus'') * American gizzard shad (''Dorosoma cepedianum'') *

American eel The American eel (''Anguilla rostrata'') is a facultative catadromous fish found on the eastern coast of North America. Freshwater eels are fish belonging to the elopomorph superorder, a group of phylogenetically ancient teleosts. The America ...

(''Anguilla rostrata'') *

Atlantic salmon The Atlantic salmon (''Salmo salar'') is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae. It is the third largest of the Salmonidae, behind Siberian taimen and Pacific Chinook salmon, growing up to a meter in length. Atlantic salmon are ...

(''Salmo salar'') *

Black buffalo The black buffalo (''Ictiobus niger'') is a North American species of freshwater fish in the Catostomidae or sucker family.* . At 56 years old for one specimen's age, it is one of the longest-lived catostomids. Found in the Mississippi Basin ...

(''Ictiobus Niger'') * Black bullhead (''Ameiurus melas'') *

Black crappie The black crappie (''Pomoxis nigromaculatus'') is a freshwater fish found in North America, one of the two types of crappies. It is very similar to the white crappie in size, shape, and habits, except that it is darker, with a pattern of black sp ...

(''Pomoxis nigromaculatus'') *

Bluegill The bluegill (''Lepomis macrochirus''), sometimes referred to as "bream", "brim", "sunny", or "copper nose" as is common in Texas, is a species of North American freshwater fish, native to and commonly found in streams, rivers, lakes, ponds and ...

(''Lepomis macrochirus'') * Bigmouth buffalo (''Ictiobus cyprinellus'') * Brook (five-spined)

stickleback The sticklebacks are a family of ray-finned fishes, the Gasterosteidae which have a Holarctic distribution in fresh, brackish and marine waters. They were thought to be related to the pipefish and seahorses but are now thought to be more closel ...

(''Culaea inconstans'') *

Brook silverside ''Labidesthes sicculus'', also known as the Brook silverside is a North American species of Neotropical silverside. The brook silverside lives in slow moving rivers and lakes from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi Basin and Gulf Coastal Plains. T ...

(''Labidesthes sicculus'') *

Brook trout The brook trout (''Salvelinus fontinalis'') is a species of freshwater fish in the char genus ''Salvelinus'' of the salmon family Salmonidae. It is native to Eastern North America in the United States and Canada, but has been introduced elsewhere ...

(''Salvelinus fontinalis'') * Brown bullhead (''Ameiurus nebulosus'') *

Brown trout The brown trout (''Salmo trutta'') is a European species of salmonid fish that has been widely introduced into suitable environments globally. It includes purely freshwater populations, referred to as the riverine ecotype, ''Salmo trutta'' morph ...

(''Salmo trutta'') *

Bowfin The bowfin (''Amia calva'') is a bony fish, native to North America. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, grindle, grinnel, swamp trout, and choupique. It is regarded as a relict, being the sole surviving species of the Halecomorphi ...

(''Amia calve'') * Burbot (''Lota lota'') *

Channel catfish The channel catfish (''Ictalurus punctatus'') is North America's most numerous catfish species. It is the official fish of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, and Tennessee, and is informally referred to as a "channel cat". In the United States, the ...

(''Ictalurus punctatus'') * Chinook salmon (''Oncorhynchus tshawytscha'') * Coho salmon (''Oncorhynchus kisutch'') *

Common carp The Eurasian carp or European carp (''Cyprinus carpio''), widely known as the common carp, is a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia.Fishbase''Cyprinus carpio'' Linnaeus, 1758/ref>Arkive The ...

(''Cyprinus carpio'') * Dace * Darter * Flathead catfish (''Pylodictis olivaris'') * Freshwater drum (''Aplodinotus grunniens'') * Goldfish (''Carassius auratus'') * Grass carp (''Ctenopharyngodon idella'') * Grass pickerel (''Esox americanus vermiculatus'') * Green sunfish (''Lepomis cyanellus'') * Killifish * Lake herring or northern cisco (''Coregonus artedi'') * Lake sturgeon (''Acipenser fulvescens'') * Lake trout (''Salvelinus namaycush'') * Lake whitefish (''Coregonus clupeaformis'') * Largemouth bass (''Micropterus salmoides'') *

Longear sunfish The longear sunfish (''Lepomis megalotis'') is a freshwater fish in the sunfish family, Centrarchidae, of order Perciformes. It is native to the area of eastern North America stretching from the Great Lakes down to northeastern Mexico.Berra, Tim ...

(''Lepomis megalotis'') * Longnose gar (''Lepisosteus osseus'') * Longnose sucker (''Catostomus catostomus'') * Menominee or round whitefish (''Prosopium cylindraceum'') * Mooneye (''Hiodon tergisus'') * Muskellunge (''Esox masquinongy'') * Ninespine stickleback (''Pungitius pungitius'') * Northern hogsucker (''Hypentelium nigricans'') * Northern pike (''Esox lucius'') * Orangespotted sunfish (''Lepomis humilis'') *

Oriental weatherfish The pond loach (''Misgurnus anguillicaudatus''), also known as the Dojo loach or oriental weatherfish, is a freshwater fish in the loach family Cobitidae. They are native to East Asia but are also popular as an aquarium fish and introduced else ...

(''Misgurnus anguillicaudatus'') * Pink salmon (''Oncorhynchus gorbuscha'') * Pumpkinseed (''Lepomis gibbosus'') * Quillback (''Carpiodes cyprinus'') * Rainbow darter (''Etheostoma caeruleum'') * Rainbow smelt (''Osmerus mordax'') *

Rainbow trout The rainbow trout (''Oncorhynchus mykiss'') is a species of trout native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America. The steelhead (sometimes called "steelhead trout") is an anadromous (sea-run) form of the coasta ...

or steelhead (''Oncorhynchus mykiss'') *

Redear sunfish The redear sunfish (''Lepomis microlophus''), also known as the shellcracker, Georgia bream, cherry gill, chinquapin, improved bream, rouge ear sunfish and sun perch) is a freshwater fish in the family Centrarchidae and is native to the southeast ...

(''Lepomis microlophus'') * River redhorse (''Moxostoma carinatum'') * Rock bass (''Ambloplites rupestris'') * Round goby (''Neogobius melanostomus'') * Ruffe (''Gymnocephalus cernuus'') * Sauger (''Sander canadensis'') * Saugeye (''Sander canadensis'' × ''Sander vitreus'') *

Sculpin A sculpin is a type of fish that belongs to the superfamily Cottoidea in the order Scorpaeniformes.Kane, E. A. and T. E. Higham. (2012)Life in the flow lane: differences in pectoral fin morphology suggest transitions in station-holding demand a ...

* Sea lamprey (''Petromyzon marinus'') * Shiner * Smallmouth bass (''Micropterus dolomieu'') * Smallmouth buffalo (''Ictiobus bubalus'') * Sockeye or kokanee (''Oncorhynchus nerka'') * Splake (''Salvelinus namaycush'' × ''Salvelinus fontinalis'') * Spotted gar (''Lepisosteus oculatus'') *

Stonecat ''Noturus flavus'', the stonecat, is a North American freshwater catfish of the family Ictaluridae. The common name is due to its habit of hiding near or under stones in fast-moving water. Anatomy Stonecats are small, slender, flat-headed ca ...

(''Noturus flavus'') *

Threespine stickleback The three-spined stickleback (''Gasterosteus aculeatus'') is a fish native to most inland and coastal waters north of 30°N. It has long been a subject of scientific study for many reasons. It shows great morphological variation throughout its ra ...

(''Gasterosteus aculeatus'') *

Topminnow Fundulidae is the family of topminnows and North American killifishes. Distribution The 46 species are native to North America as far south as Yucatan, and to the islands of Bermuda and Cuba, occurring in both freshwater and marine environments ...

Trout-perch ''Percopsis omiscomaycus'', also known as the trout-perch, the grounder or the sand minnow, is one of two species in the family Percopsidae. Its name comes from the Greek root words ''perc'', meaning perch and ''opsi'' meaning appearance. The sp ...

(''Percopsis omiscomaycus'') *

Tubenose goby ''Proterorhinus'' is a genus of fishes, known as the tubenose gobies. These gobiid fish are native to Eurasia where they occur in the region of the Caspian and Black seas, inhabiting marine, brackish and fresh waters. The species ''Proterorhi ...

(''Proterorhinus marmoratus'') * Walleye (''Sander vitreus'') * Warmouth (''Lepomis gulosus'') *

Western mosquitofish The western Mosquitofish (''Gambusia affinis'') is a North American freshwater fish, also known commonly, if ambiguously, as simply Mosquitofish or by its generic name, ''Gambusia'', or by the common name gambezi. Its sister species, the east ...

(''Gambusia affinis'') * White bass (''Morone chrysops'') * White crappie (''Pomoxis annularis'') * White perch (''Morone americana'') * White sucker (''Catostomus commersonii'') * Yellow bullhead (''Ameiurus natalis'') * Yellow perch (''Perca flavescens'')

Extinct fish

Bigeye chub Bigeye chub (''Hybopsis amblops'') is a species of freshwater fish in the carp family ( Cyprinidae). Geographic distribution The native range of the Bigeye chub includes the Lake Ontario and Lake Erie drainages in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, ...

(''Hybopsis amblops'') * Bluepike (''Sander vitreus glaucus'') * Blackfin cisco(''Coregonus nigrpinnis'') * Deepwater cisco (''Coregonus johannae'') *

Grayling Grayling or Greyling may refer to: Animals Fish * Grayling, generically, any fish of the genus ''Thymallus'' in the family Salmonidae ** European grayling (''Thymallus thymallus''), the European species of the genus ''Thymallus'' ** Arctic grayli ...

(''Thymallus arcticus'') * Ironcolor shiner (''Notropis chalybaeus'') * Mississippi paddlefish (''Polyodon spathula'') * Shortnose cisco (''Coregonus reighardi'') * Weed shiner (''Notropis texanus'')

Mammals

White-tailed Buck in a Wooded Area Kensington Metropark Michigan

* American badger * American bison (extirpated) *

American black bear The American black bear (''Ursus americanus''), also called simply a black bear or sometimes a baribal, is a medium-sized bear endemic to North America. It is the continent's smallest and most widely distributed bear species. American black bear ...

American ermine The American ermine or American stoat (''Mustela richardsonii'') is a species of mustelid native to most of North America. Taxonomy It was long considered conspecific with the stoat (''M. erminea''), but a 2021 study found it to be a distinct ...

American marten The American marten (''Martes americana''), also known as the American pine marten, is a species of North American mammal, a member of the family Mustelidae. The species is sometimes referred to as simply the pine marten. The name "pine marten" ...

American red squirrel The American red squirrel (''Tamiasciurus hudsonicus'') is one of three species of tree squirrels currently classified in the genus ''Tamiasciurus'', known as the pine squirrels (the others are the Douglas squirrel, ''T. douglasii'', and the sou ...

American water shrew The American water shrew (''Sorex palustris'') or northern water shrew, is a shrew found in the nearctic faunal region located throughout the mountain ranges of the northern United States and in Canada and Alaska. The organism resides in semi-aq ...

* Big brown bat *

Beaver Beavers are large, semiaquatic rodents in the genus ''Castor'' native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. There are two extant species: the North American beaver (''Castor canadensis'') and the Eurasian beaver (''C. fiber''). Beavers ar ...

Bobcat The bobcat (''Lynx rufus''), also known as the red lynx, is a medium-sized cat native to North America. It ranges from southern Canada through most of the contiguous United States to Oaxaca in Mexico. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUC ...

* Brown rat (introduced) * Canada lynx * Cinereus shrew *

Cougar The cougar (''Puma concolor'') is a large Felidae, cat native to the Americas. Its Species distribution, range spans from the Canadian Yukon to the southern Andes in South America and is the most widespread of any large wild terrestrial mamm ...

(extirpated, but vagrants sighted)
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Coyote The coyote (''Canis latrans'') is a species of canis, canine native to North America. It is smaller than its close relative, the wolf, and slightly smaller than the closely related eastern wolf and red wolf. It fills much of the same ecologica ...

* Deer mouse * Eastern cottontail rabbit * Eastern gray squirrel * Eastern mole * Eastern chipmunk * Eastern red bat * Eastern wolf ( naturally repopulated) *

Elk The elk (''Cervus canadensis''), also known as the wapiti, is one of the largest species within the deer family, Cervidae, and one of the largest terrestrial mammals in its native range of North America and Central and East Asia. The common ...

(reintroduced) * Fisher * Fox squirrel * Gray fox * Groundhog * Hoary bat *

House mouse The house mouse (''Mus musculus'') is a small mammal of the order Rodentia, characteristically having a pointed snout, large rounded ears, and a long and almost hairless tail. It is one of the most abundant species of the genus '' Mus''. Althoug ...

(introduced) * Indiana bat * Least chipmunk *

Least weasel The least weasel (''Mustela nivalis''), little weasel, common weasel, or simply weasel is the smallest member of the genus '' Mustela,'' family Mustelidae and order Carnivora. It is native to Eurasia, North America and North Africa, and has bee ...

* Little brown bat * Long-tailed weasel * Meadow vole * Meadow jumping mouse *

Mink Mink are dark-colored, semiaquatic, carnivorous mammals of the genera ''Neogale'' and '' Mustela'' and part of the family Mustelidae, which also includes weasels, otters, and ferrets. There are two extant species referred to as "mink": the A ...

* Moose (reintroduced) *

Muskrat The muskrat (''Ondatra zibethicus'') is a medium-sized semiaquatic rodent native to North America and an introduced species in parts of Europe, Asia, and South America. The muskrat is found in wetlands over a wide range of climates and habitat ...

* North American river otter * Northern short-tailed shrew * North American porcupine * Prairie vole * Raccoon *

Red fox The red fox (''Vulpes vulpes'') is the largest of the true foxes and one of the most widely distributed members of the Order (biology), order Carnivora, being present across the entire Northern Hemisphere including most of North America, Europe ...

* Silver-haired bat * Snowshoe hare * Southern bog lemming * Southern flying squirrel * Star-nosed mole *

Striped skunk The striped skunk (''Mephitis mephitis'') is a skunk of the genus '' Mephitis'' that occurs across much of North America, including southern Canada, the United States, and northern Mexico. It is currently listed as least concern by the IUCN on ac ...

* Thirteen-lined ground squirrel * Virginia opossum * White-footed mouse * White-tailed deer * Wolverine (extirpated) * Woodland caribou (extirpated) * Woodland jumping mouse * Woodland vole

Reptiles

References

Identifying Michigan Fish
Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Michigan Department of Natural Resources

James W. Fetzner Jr., Section of Invertebrate Zoology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA, 28 January 2008

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