This is a list of the native wild mammal species recorded in Mexico. As of September 2014, there were 536 mammalian species or subspecies listed. Based on

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data, Mexico has 23% more noncetacean mammal species than the U.S. and Canada combined in an area only 10% as large, or a species density over 12 times that of its northern neighbors. Mexico's high mammal biodiversity is in part a reflection of the wide array of biomes present over its latitudinal, climatic and altitudinal ranges, from lowland tropical rainforest to temperate

desert A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to denudation. About on ...

to montane forest to

alpine tundra Alpine tundra is a type of natural region or biome that does not contain trees because it is at high elevation, with an associated alpine climate, harsh climate. As the latitude of a location approaches the poles, the threshold elevation for alp ...

. The general increase in terrestrial biodiversity moving towards the equator is another important factor in the comparison. Mexico includes much of the Mesoamerican and

Madrean pine-oak woodlands The Madrean Region (named after the Sierra Madre Occidental) is a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom in North America, as delineated by Armen Takhtajan and Robert F. Thorne. It occupies arid or semiarid areas in the southwestern United S ...

biodiversity hotspots. From a biogeographic standpoint, most of Mexico is linked to the rest of North America as part of the

Nearctic realm The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface. The Nearctic realm covers most of North America, including Greenland, Central Florida, and the highlands of Mexico. The parts of North America t ...

. However, the lowlands of southern Mexico are linked with Central America and South America as part of the Neotropical realm. Extensive mixing of Nearctic and Neotropical mammal species commenced only three million years ago, when the formation of the

Isthmus of Panama The Isthmus of Panama ( es, Istmo de Panamá), also historically known as the Isthmus of Darien (), is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North and South America. It contains the country ...

ended South America's long period of isolation and precipitated the

Great American Interchange The Great American Biotic Interchange (commonly abbreviated as GABI), also known as the Great American Interchange and the Great American Faunal Interchange, was an important late Cenozoic paleozoogeographic biotic interchange event in which lan ...

. Twenty of Mexico's extant nonflying species ( opossums,

armadillos Armadillos (meaning "little armored ones" in Spanish) are New World placental mammals in the order Cingulata. The Chlamyphoridae and Dasypodidae are the only surviving families in the order, which is part of the superorder Xenarthra, along w ...

anteaters Anteater is a common name for the four extant mammal species of the suborder Vermilingua (meaning "worm tongue") commonly known for eating ants and termites. The individual species have other names in English and other languages. Together with ...

monkeys Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes, which constitutes an incomple ...

and caviomorph rodents) are of South American origin. Most of the

megafauna In terrestrial zoology, the megafauna (from Greek μέγας ''megas'' "large" and New Latin ''fauna'' "animal life") comprises the large or giant animals of an area, habitat, or geological period, extinct and/or extant. The most common threshold ...

that formerly inhabited the region became extinct at the end of the Pleistocene about 10,000 years ago, shortly after the arrival of the first humans. Increasing alteration and destruction of natural habitats by expanding human populations during the last several centuries is causing further attrition of the region's biodiversity, as exemplified by the "

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" designations (by definition, such areas have lost over 70% of their primary vegetation). The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature; those on the left are used here, those in the second column in some other articles: Of the listed taxa, 7 are extinct, 1 (not recognized by the IUCN) is possibly extinct, 30 are critically endangered, 46 are endangered, 26 are vulnerable, and 23 are near threatened. These status tags were most recently updated in April 2011. Six of the extinct or possibly extinct taxa and 11 of the critically endangered taxa are

insular Insular is an adjective used to describe: * An island * Someone who is isolated and parochial Insular may also refer to: Sub-national territories or regions * Insular Chile * Insular region of Colombia * Insular Ecuador, administratively known ...

(all but two of these are rodents); another 13 of the critically endangered species (all rodents or shrews) are montane. The only critically endangered species that are neither rodents nor shrews are the Cozumel Island raccoon and the vaquita. The vaquita population estimate has dropped below 100 as of 2014 and it is regarded as being in imminent danger of extinction.

Subclass: Theria

Infraclass:
Metatheria Metatheria is a mammalian clade that includes all mammals more closely related to marsupials than to placentals. First proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1880, it is a more inclusive group than the marsupials; it contains all marsupials as well ...

Central American woolly opossum (Caluromys derbianus) male

Order: Didelphimorphia (common opossums)

---- Didelphimorphia is the order of common opossums of the Western Hemisphere. Opossums probably diverged from the basic South American marsupials in the late Cretaceous or early Paleocene. They are small to medium-sized marsupials, about the size of a large house cat, with a long snout and

prehensile Prehensility is the quality of an appendage or organ (anatomy), organ that has Adaptation (biology), adapted for grasping or holding. The word is derived from the Latin term ''prehendere'', meaning "to grasp". The ability to grasp is likely der ...

tail. *Family: Didelphidae (American opossums) **Subfamily: Caluromyinae ***Genus: '' Caluromys'' **** Derby's woolly opossum, ''C. derbianus'' **Subfamily:

Didelphinae The Didelphinae are a subfamily of opossums consisting of 15 genera and 123 species. Specimens have been collected throughout the Americas, but are predominant in South and Central America. Some sources call this subfamily the "American opossu ...

***Genus: '' Chironectes'' **** Water opossum, ''C. minimus'' ***Genus: '' Didelphis'' **** Common opossum, ''D. marsupialis'' **** Virginia opossum, ''D. virginiana'' ***Genus: '' Marmosa'' ****

Mexican mouse opossum The Mexican mouse opossum (''Marmosa mexicana'') is a species of North American opossum in the family Didelphidae. Description ''Marmosa mexicana'' is a small to moderate-sized reddish-brown marsupial, varying from bright to dull coloration. Ha ...

, ''M. mexicana'' ***Genus: '' Metachirus'' **** Brown four-eyed opossum, ''M. nudicaudatus'' ***Genus: '' Philander'' **** Gray four-eyed opossum, ''P. opossum'' ***Genus: ''

Tlacuatzin The grayish mouse opossum (''Tlacuatzin canescens'') is a species of opossum endemic to Mexico. It is the sole species in the genus ''Tlacuatzin''. Description The grayish mouse opossum is an unusually small opossum, measuring in total length, ...

'' ****

Grayish mouse opossum The grayish mouse opossum (''Tlacuatzin canescens'') is a species of opossum endemic to Mexico. It is the sole species in the genus ''Tlacuatzin''. Description The grayish mouse opossum is an unusually small opossum, measuring in total length ...

, ''T. canescens''

Infraclass: Eutheria

Order: Sirenia (manatees and dugongs)

----

Sirenia is an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit rivers, estuaries, coastal marine waters, swamps, and marine wetlands. All four species are endangered. They evolved about 50 million years ago, and their closest living relatives are elephants. Manatees are the only extant afrotherians in the Americas. However, a number

proboscid The Proboscidea (; , ) are a taxonomy (biology), taxonomic order (biology), order of afrotherian mammals containing one living family (biology), family (Elephantidae) and several extinct families. First described by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger ...

species, some of which survived until the arrival of Paleo-Indians, once inhabited the region. Mammoths, mastodons and

gomphothere Gomphotheres are any members of the diverse, extinct taxonomic family Gomphotheriidae. Gomphotheres were elephant-like proboscideans, but do not belong to the family Elephantidae. They were widespread across Afro-Eurasia and North America during ...

s all formerly lived in Mexico. *Family: Trichechidae **Genus: ''

Trichechus Manatees (family Trichechidae, genus ''Trichechus'') are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows. There are three accepted living species of Trichechidae, representing three of the four living species ...

'' *** West Indian manatee, ''T. manatus''

Order: Cingulata (armadillos)

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Armadillos are small mammals with a bony armored shell. Two of twenty-one extant species are present in Mexico; the remainder are only found in South America, where they originated. Their much larger relatives, the

pampatheres Pampatheriidae ("Pampas beasts") is an extinct family of large plantigrade armored armadillos related to extant armadillos in the order Cingulata. However, pampatheriids have existed as a separate lineage since at least the middle Eocene Musters ...

and glyptodonts, once lived in North and South America but went extinct following the appearance of humans. *Family: Dasypodidae (long-nosed armadillos) **Subfamily:

Dasypodinae Dasypodidae is a family of mostly extinct genera of armadillos. One genus, '' Dasypus'', is extant, with at least seven living species. __TOC__ Classification Below is a taxonomy of armadillos in this family. Family Dasypodidae *† Genu ...

***Genus: ''

Dasypus ''Dasypus'' is the only extant genus in the family Dasypodidae. Its species are known as long-nosed or naked-tailed armadillos. They are found in South, Central, and North America, as well as on the Caribbean islands of Grenada, Trinidad and Toba ...

'' **** Nine-banded armadillo, ''D. novemcinctus'' *Family: Chlamyphoridae (armadillos) **Subfamily:

Tolypeutinae Tolypeutinae is a subfamily of armadillos in the family Chlamyphoridae, consisting of the giant, three-banded and naked-tailed armadillos. __TOC__ Taxonomy It contains the following genera: *''Cabassous'' *''Kuntinaru'' *''Priodontes'' *''To ...

***Genus: '' Cabassous'' ****

Northern naked-tailed armadillo The northern naked-tailed armadillo (''Cabassous centralis'') is a species of armadillo. It is one of only two species of armadillo found outside of South America, the other being the more widely distributed nine-banded armadillo. Description Th ...

, ''C. centralis''

Order: Pilosa (anteaters, sloths and tamanduas)

----

The order Pilosa is extant only in the Americas and includes the

anteater Anteater is a common name for the four extant mammal species of the suborder Vermilingua (meaning "worm tongue") commonly known for eating ants and termites. The individual species have other names in English and other languages. Together with ...

s, sloths, and tamanduas. Their ancestral home is South America. Numerous

ground sloth Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths in the mammalian superorder Xenarthra. The term is used to refer to all extinct sloths because of the large size of the earliest forms discovered, compared to existing tree sloths. The Caribbe ...

s, some of which reached the size of elephants, were once present in both North and South America, as well as on the Antilles, but all went extinct following the arrival of humans. *Suborder: Vermilingua **Family: Cyclopedidae ***Genus: '' Cyclopes'' **** Common silky anteater, ''C. didactylus'' ****

Central American silky anteater Central is an adjective usually referring to being in the center of some place or (mathematical) object. Central may also refer to: Directions and generalised locations * Central Africa, a region in the centre of Africa continent, also known ...

, ''C. dorsalis'' **Family: Myrmecophagidae (American anteaters) ***Genus: '' Tamandua'' **** Northern tamandua, ''T. mexicana''

Order:
Primates Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys and apes, the latter including huma ...

----

The order Primates includes the lemurs,

monkey Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes, which constitutes an incomple ...

s, and apes, with the latter category including humans. It is divided into four main groupings: strepsirrhines,

tarsier Tarsiers ( ) are haplorhine primates of the family Tarsiidae, which is itself the lone extant family within the infraorder Tarsiiformes. Although the group was once more widespread, all of its species living today are found in Maritime Southeast ...

s, monkeys of the New World ( parvorder Platyrrhini), and monkeys and apes of the Old World. Mexico's 2 genera of nonhuman primates compares to 6 in Central America, 20 in South America, 15 in Madagascar, 23 in Africa and 19 in Asia. Mexican and Central American monkeys are recent immigrants from South America, where their ancestors arrived after rafting over from Africa roughly 25 million years ago. Southeastern Mexico is the northernmost limit of the distribution of New World monkeys, which are restricted to tropical rainforest habitat. *Suborder: Haplorrhini **Infraorder: Simiiformes ***Parvorder: Platyrrhini ****Family: Atelidae *****Subfamily: Alouattinae ******Genus: '' Alouatta'' ******* Mantled howler, ''A. palliata'' ******* Guatemalan black howler, ''A. pigra'' *****Subfamily: Atelinae ******Genus: '' Ateles'' ******* Geoffroy's spider monkey, ''A. geoffroyi''

Order: Rodentia (rodents)

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Beaver Yearling Grooming Alhambra Creek 2008

Cynomys ludovicianus -Paignton Zoo, Devon, England-8a

Rodents make up the largest order of mammals, with over 40% of mammalian species. They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be kept short by gnawing. Most rodents are small, although the

capybara The capybaraAlso called capivara (in Brazil), capiguara (in Bolivia), chigüire, chigüiro, or fercho (in Colombia and Venezuela), carpincho (in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) and ronsoco (in Peru). or greater capybara (''Hydrochoerus hydro ...

can weigh up to . According to the IUCN listing, Mexico has more rodent species (236 as of April 2011) than any other country in the world (Brazil is second with 222). Of Mexico's rodents, 2% are caviomorphs, 14.5% are sciurids, 25.5% are castorimorphs and 58% are cricetids. This distribution is fairly similar to that of the remainder of North America (although sciurids are relatively twice as abundant to the north, at the expense of cricetids), but is very different from that of South America, where the corresponding figures are 36%, 3%, 1% and 60%. Of Mexico's cricetids, 17% are

sigmodontine The rodent subfamily Sigmodontinae includes New World rats and mice, with at least 376 species. Many authorities include the Neotominae and Tylomyinae as part of a larger definition of Sigmodontinae. When those genera are included, the species c ...

, while the figure for South America is 99.5%. Mexico's caviomorphs are recent immigrants from South America, where their ancestors washed ashore after rafting across the Atlantic from Africa about 40–45 million years ago. Conversely, South America's sciurids, castorimorphs and cricetids are recent immigrants from Central America (with sigmodontines getting a head start on the others). *Suborder: Hystricomorpha **Family: Erethizontidae (New World porcupines) ***Subfamily:

Erethizontinae Erethizontinae is a subfamily of the New World porcupine family Erethizontidae, and includes all species of the family with the exception of the bristle-spined rat The bristle-spined rat (''Chaetomys subspinosus'') is an arboreal rodent from th ...

****Genus: ''

Erethizon ''Erethizon'' is a genus of New World porcupine and the only one of its family to be found north of southern Mexico. The North American porcupine ''(Erethizon dorsatum)'' is the only extant species, but several extinct relatives are known, the old ...

'' ***** North American porcupine, ''E. dorsatum'' LC ****Genus: '' Coendou'' ***** Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine, ''Coendou mexicanus'' LC **Family: Dasyproctidae (agoutis and pacas) ***Genus: '' Dasyprocta'' ****

Mexican agouti The Mexican agouti (''Dasyprocta mexicana''), also known as the Mexican black agouti, is a species of rodent in the family Dasyproctidae. It is native to lowland evergreen forest and second growth in southern Mexico (Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas an ...

, ''Dasyprocta mexicana'' CR ****

Central American agouti The Central American agouti (''Dasyprocta punctata'') is a species of agouti from the family Dasyproctidae. The main portion of its range is from Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula (southern Mexico), through Central America, to northwestern Ecuad ...

, ''Dasyprocta punctata'' LC **Family: Cuniculidae ***Genus: '' Cuniculus'' ****

Lowland paca The lowland paca (''Cuniculus paca''), also known as the spotted paca, is a large rodent found in tropical and sub-tropical America, from east-central Mexico to northern Argentina, and has been introduced to Cuba and Algeria. The animal is cal ...

, ''Cuniculus paca'' LC *Suborder:

Sciuromorpha Sciuromorpha ("squirrel-like") is a rodent clade that includes several different rodent families. It includes all members of the Sciuridae (the squirrel family) as well as the mountain beaver species. Traditionally, the term has been defined on ...

**Family: Sciuridae (squirrels) ***Subfamily:

Sciurinae Sciurinae is a subfamily of squirrels (in the family Sciuridae), uniting the flying squirrels with certain related tree squirrels. Older sources place the flying squirrels in a separate subfamily (Pteromyinae) and unite all remaining sciurids into ...

****Tribe: Pteromyini *****Genus: '' Glaucomys'' ****** Southern flying squirrel, ''Glaucomys volans'' LC ****Tribe: Sciurini *****Genus: '' Sciurus'' ****** Abert's squirrel, ''Sciurus aberti'' LC ****** Allen's squirrel, ''Sciurus alleni'' LC ****** Arizona gray squirrel, ''Sciurus arizonensis'' DD ******

Mexican gray squirrel The Mexican gray squirrel (or red-bellied squirrel) (''Sciurus aureogaster'') is a tree squirrel in the genus ''Sciurus'' native to Guatemala and eastern and southern Mexico. It has been introduced to the Florida Keys. The alternate name should ...

, ''Sciurus aureogaster'' LC ******

Collie's squirrel Collie's squirrel (''Sciurus colliaei'') is a tree squirrel in the genus ''Sciurus'' endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined ...

, ''Sciurus colliaei'' LC ****** Deppe's squirrel, ''Sciurus deppei'' LC ******

Western gray squirrel The western gray squirrel (''Sciurus griseus'') is a tree squirrel found along the western coast of the United States and Mexico. In some places, this species has also been known as the silver-gray squirrel, the California gray squirrel, the Or ...

, ''Sciurus griseus'' LC ******

Mexican fox squirrel The Mexican fox squirrel (''Sciurus nayaritensis'') is a species of tree squirrel found throughout the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico as far south as Jalisco — and northward into the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona, U.S.Best, T ...

, ''Sciurus nayaritensis'' LC ****** Fox squirrel, ''Sciurus niger'' LC ******

Peters's squirrel Peters's squirrel (''Sciurus oculatus'') is a tree squirrel in the genus ''Sciurus'' endemic to Mexico. It was first described by the German naturalist and explorer Wilhelm Peters in 1863. Three subspecies are recognised. It is a common species, ...

, ''Sciurus oculatus'' LC ******

Variegated squirrel The variegated squirrel (''Sciurus variegatoides'') is a tree squirrel in the genus ''Sciurus'' found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, southern Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. Fifteen subspecies are recognised. It is a common s ...

, ''Sciurus variegatoides'' LC ******

Yucatan squirrel The Yucatan squirrel (, ''Sciurus yucatanensis''), originally named the Yucatan gray squirrel, also once named the Campeche squirrel, is a tree squirrel in the genus ''Sciurus'' found in the Yucatán Peninsula and adjacent areas. It is native to ...

, ''Sciurus yucatanensis'' LC *****Genus: ''

Tamiasciurus Pine squirrels are squirrels of the genus ''Tamiasciurus'', in the Sciurini tribe, of the large family Sciuridae. Species This genus includes three species: *''Tamiasciurus hudsonicus'' — American red squirrel *''Tamiasciurus douglasii'' ...

'' ******

Mearns's squirrel Mearns's squirrel (''Tamiasciurus douglasii mearnsi'') is a subspecies of the Douglas squirrel Endemism, endemic to Mexico. It is endangered species, endangered and occurs in low densities, and is threatened by habitat loss.Koprowski, Ramos, Pasc ...

, ''Tamiasciurus mearnsi'' EN ***Subfamily: Xerinae ****Tribe: Marmotini *****Genus: '' Ammospermophilus'' ****** Harris's antelope squirrel, ''Ammospermophilus harrisii'' LC ****** Espíritu Santo antelope squirrel, ''Ammospermophilus insularis'' ******

Texas antelope squirrel The Texas antelope squirrel (''Ammospermophilus interpres'') is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Mexico and in both Texas and New Mexico within the United States. Description Adults can measure up to long, and weigh . ...

, ''Ammospermophilus interpres'' LC ******

White-tailed antelope squirrel The white-tailed antelope squirrel (''Ammospermophilus leucurus'') is a diurnal species of ground squirrel, scientifically classified in the order Rodentia and family Sciuridae, found in arid regions of the southwestern United States and the B ...

, ''Ammospermophilus leucurus'' LC *****Genus: '' Cynomys'' ****** Black-tailed prairie dog, ''Cynomys ludovicianus'' LC ****** Mexican prairie dog, ''Cynomys mexicanus'' EN *****Genus: '' Neotamias'' ******

Buller's chipmunk Buller's chipmunk (''Neotamias bulleri'') is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is ...

, ''Neotamias bulleri'' VU ******

Cliff chipmunk The cliff chipmunk (''Neotamias dorsalis'') is a small, bushy-tailed squirrel that typically lives along cliff walls or boulder fields bordering Pinyon-juniper woodlands in the Western United States and Mexico (commonly spotted in northern Arizo ...

, ''Neotamias dorsalis'' LC ******

Durango chipmunk The Durango chipmunk (''Neotamias durangae'') is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to Mexico. Distribution This species has a disjunct distribution, with populations in the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Orient ...

, ''Neotamias durangae'' LC ****** Merriam's chipmunk, ''Neotamias merriami'' LC ****** California chipmunk, ''Neotamias obscurus'' LC *****Genus: ''

Spermophilus ''Spermophilus'' is a genus of ground squirrels in the Sciuridae, squirrel family. As traditionally defined the genus was very species-rich, ranging through Europe, Asia and North America, but this arrangement was found to be paraphyletic to ...

'' ******

Tropical ground squirrel The tropical ground squirrel (''Notocitellus adocetus'') is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. At one time the species was originally described as ''Spermophilus adocetus'', but the genus ''Spermophilus'' was revised and subdivided in ...

, ''Spermophilus adocetus'' LC ******

Ring-tailed ground squirrel The ring-tailed ground squirrel (''Notocitellus annulatus'') is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to the Pacific coast region of central Mexico. It is a common species and feeds mainly on fruits and nuts. The IUCN has as ...

, ''Spermophilus annulatus'' LC ****** Baja California rock squirrel, ''Spermophilus atricapillus'' EN ******

California ground squirrel The California ground squirrel (''Otospermophilus beecheyi''), also known as the Beechey ground squirrel, is a common and easily observed ground squirrel of the western United States and the Baja California Peninsula; it is common in Oregon and ...

, ''Spermophilus beecheyi'' LC ******

Sierra Madre ground squirrel The Sierra Madre ground squirrel (''Callospermophilus madrensis'') is a species of rodent in the squirrel family. It is endemic to the Sierra Madre Occidental, in northern Mexico. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassl ...

, ''Spermophilus madrensis'' NT ****** Mexican ground squirrel, ''Spermophilus mexicanus'' LC ******

Perote ground squirrel The Perote ground squirrel (''Xerospermosphilus perotensis'') is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to Mexico and is currently at risk of extinction. Perote ground squirrels live within the same area as rock squirrels ('' ...

, ''Xerospermophilus perotensis'' EN ****** Spotted ground squirrel, ''Spermophilus spilosoma'' LC ******

Round-tailed ground squirrel The round-tailed ground squirrel (''Xerospermophilus tereticaudus''), known as "Ardillón cola redonda" in Spanish, live in the desert of the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. They are called "ground squirrels" because they bur ...

, ''Spermophilus tereticaudus'' LC ******

Rock squirrel The rock squirrel (''Otospermophilus variegatus'') is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae and is native to Mexico and the Southwestern United States, including southern Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, West Texas, and the panha ...

, ''Spermophilus variegatus'' LC *Suborder: Castorimorpha **Family: Castoridae (beavers) ***Genus: '' Castor'' **** American beaver, ''Castor canadensis'' LC **Family: Geomyidae ***Genus: '' Cratogeomys'' **** Yellow-faced pocket gopher, ''Cratogeomys castanops'' LC **** Oriental Basin pocket gopher, ''Cratogeomys fulvescens'' LC **** Smoky pocket gopher, ''Cratogeomys fumosus'' LC **** Goldman's pocket gopher, ''Cratogeomys goldmani'' LC **** Merriam's pocket gopher, ''Cratogeomys merriami'' LC **** Perote pocket gopher, ''Cratogeomys perotensis'' LC **** Flat-headed pocket gopher, '' Cratogeomys planiceps'' LC ***Genus: '' Geomys'' **** Desert pocket gopher, ''Geomys arenarius'' NT ****

Texas pocket gopher The Texas pocket gopher (''Geomys personatus'') is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is found in Tamaulipas in Mexico and in Texas in the United States. Description Males grow to a length of about including a tail of about . Fem ...

, ''Geomys personatus'' LC ****

Tropical pocket gopher The tropical pocket gopher (''Geomys tropicalis'') is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitat is hot deserts. It is threatened by habitat loss. Description The tropical pocket gopher is cinnamon ...

, ''Geomys tropicalis'' CR ***Genus: '' Orthogeomys'' ****

Oaxacan pocket gopher The giant pocket gopher (''Orthogeomys grandis'') is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. It is the type species of the genus ''Orthogeomys''; some zoologists also include in thi ...

, ''Orthogeomys cuniculus'' DD ****

Giant pocket gopher The giant pocket gopher (''Orthogeomys grandis'') is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. It is the type species of the genus ''Orthogeomys''; some zoologists also include in th ...

, ''Orthogeomys grandis'' LC ****

Hispid pocket gopher The hispid pocket gopher (''Heterogeomys hispidus'') is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is found in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. Some authors classify it in the genus ''Orthogeomys'', but recent research has allowed t ...

, ''Orthogeomys hispidus'' LC ****

Big pocket gopher The big pocket gopher (''Heterogeomys lanius'') is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is endemic to Veracruz state in eastern Mexico. It has only been found on the southeastern slopes of Pico de Orizaba, at elevations of . Some auth ...

, ''Orthogeomys lanius'' CR ***Genus: '' Pappogeomys'' ****

Alcorn's pocket gopher Alcorn's pocket gopher (''Pappogeomys bulleri alcorni'') is a subspecies of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitat In ecology, the term habitat summarises the array of resources, physical and biotic ...

, ''Pappogeomys alcorni'' CR ****

Buller's pocket gopher Buller's pocket gopher (''Pappogeomys bulleri'') is a species of gopher that is endemic to Mexico. It is monotypic within the genus ''Pappogeomys''. It includes the Alcorn's pocket gopher Alcorn's pocket gopher (''Pappogeomys bulleri alcorni'' ...

, ''Pappogeomys bulleri'' LC ***Genus: '' Thomomys'' ****

Botta's pocket gopher Botta's pocket gopher (''Thomomys bottae'') is a pocket gopher native to western North America. It is also known in some sources as valley pocket gopher, particularly in California. Both the specific and common names of this species honor Paul-É ...

, ''Thomomys bottae'' LC ****

Southern pocket gopher The southern pocket gopher (''Thomomys umbrinus'') is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is found in Mexico and the United States, usually in high altitude grassland and shrubland. It feeds on plant material and has an extensive burr ...

, ''Thomomys umbrinus'' LC ***Genus: '' Zygogeomys'' ****

Michoacan pocket gopher The Michoacan pocket gopher (''Zygogeomys trichopus'') is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is monotypic within the genus ''Zygogeomys''. It is endemic to Mexico where its natural habitat is temperate, high-altitude forests. Its nu ...

, ''Zygogeomys trichopus'' EN **Family: Heteromyidae ***Subfamily: Dipodomyinae ****Genus: '' Dipodomys'' *****

Agile kangaroo rat The agile kangaroo rat (''Dipodomys agilis'') is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to southern California in the United States. Relatively little information has been published on the natural history, life history, ec ...

, ''Dipodomys agilis'' LC ***** Gulf Coast kangaroo rat, ''Dipodomys compactus'' LC ***** Desert kangaroo rat, ''Dipodomys deserti'' LC ***** San Quintin kangaroo rat, ''Dipodomys gravipes'' CR ***** San Jose Island kangaroo rat, ''Dipodomys insularis'' CR *****

Margarita Island kangaroo rat The Margarita Island kangaroo rat (''Dipodomys merriami margaritae'') is a subspecies of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to Mexico, where it is found only on Isla Santa Margarita of Magdalena Bay, Baja California Sur. The natura ...

, ''Dipodomys margaritae'' CR ***** Merriam's kangaroo rat, ''Dipodomys merriami'' LC *****

Nelson's kangaroo rat Nelson's kangaroo rat (''Dipodomys nelsoni'') is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae which is endemic to the central plateau of Mexico. Description Nelson's kangaroo rat reaches a length of about including a tail of about and is one ...

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Phillips's kangaroo rat Phillips's kangaroo rat (''Dipodomys phillipsii'') is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitat is hot deserts. The species is named after John Phillips, an official of a Mexican mining company ...

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Heteromyinae Heteromyinae is a subfamily of rodents in the family Heteromyidae, commonly known as spiny pocket mice. It contains a single extant genus, ''Heteromys'', as well as the extinct genera ''Diprionomys'' and ''Metaliomys''. ''Heteromys'' was recentl ...

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Heteromys ''Heteromys'' is a genus of rodents in the family Heteromyidae, commonly known as spiny pocket mice. It is the only extant genus in the subfamily Heteromyinae which also includes the extinct genera ''Diprionomys'' and ''Metaliomys''. ''Heteromys ...

'' ***** Desmarest's spiny pocket mouse, ''Heteromys desmarestianus'' LC ***** Gaumer's spiny pocket mouse, ''Heteromys gaumeri'' LC ***** Mexican spiny pocket mouse, ''Heteromys irroratus'' LC ***** Nelson's spiny pocket mouse, ''Heteromys nelsoni'' EN ***** Painted spiny pocket mouse, ''Heteromys pictus'' LC *****

Salvin's spiny pocket mouse Salvin's spiny pocket mouse (''Heteromys salvini'') is a small to medium-sized rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It was formerly placed in the genus ''Liomys'', which is now recognized to be paraphyletic and has been subsumed into ''Heteromys'' ...

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Jaliscan spiny pocket mouse The Jaliscan spiny pocket mouse (''Heteromys spectabilis'') is a species of heteromyid rodent endemic to Mexico. The specific name ''spectabilis'' means "striking", and refers to the animal's relatively bright coloration. It was formerly placed i ...

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Perognathinae Perognathinae is a subfamily of rodents consisting of two genera of pocket mice. Most species live in complex burrows within the deserts and grasslands of western North America, They feed mostly on seeds and other plant parts, which they carry i ...

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Little desert pocket mouse The little desert pocket mouse (''Chaetodipus arenarius'') is a species of small rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to Baja California in Mexico. Description The little desert pocket mouse reaches a length of about including a tai ...

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Narrow-skulled pocket mouse The narrow-skulled pocket mouse (''Chaetodipus artus'') is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to western Mexico, living west of the Sierra Madre Occidental crest. Description The narrow-skulled pocket mouse is a medium ...

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Bailey's pocket mouse Bailey's pocket mouse (''Chaetodipus baileyi'') is a species of rodent of the subfamily Perognathinae, family Heteromyidae. It is found in Baja California, Sinaloa and Sonora in Mexico and in California, Arizona and New Mexico in the United Sta ...

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California pocket mouse The California pocket mouse (''Chaetodipus californicus'') is a species of nocturnal and primarily solitary rodent in the family Heteromyidae. Distribution ''Chaetodipus californicus'' is native to California in the western United States and nor ...

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Dalquest's pocket mouse Dalquest's pocket mouse (''Chaetodipus dalquesti'') is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae, sometimes viewed as a subspecies of '' Chaetodipus ammophilus''. It is endemic to Mexico. The pocket mouse is named after Walter W. Dalquest (1 ...

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Chihuahuan pocket mouse The Chihuahuan pocket mouse (''Chaetodipus eremicus'') is a species of Heteromyidae, heteromyid rodent found in the southwestern United States and Mexico. It was formerly considered a subspecies of the desert pocket mouse (''C. pencillatus''), bu ...

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San Diego pocket mouse The San Diego pocket mouse (''Chaetodipus fallax'') is a rodent species in the family Heteromyidae. It occupies the northern region of Baja California near San Diego extending into Mexico. Description The San Diego pocket mouse occupies the no ...

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Long-tailed pocket mouse The long-tailed pocket mouse (''Chaetodipus formosus'') is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah in the United States and Baja California in Mexico. References

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Goldman's pocket mouse Goldman's pocket mouse (''Chaetodipus goldmani'') is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to Mexico, where it is threatened by the increasing conversion of its dry, scrubby habitat into agricultural land. As a result, th ...

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Rock pocket mouse The rock pocket mouse (''Chaetodipus intermedius'') is one of 19 species of pocket mice in the genus ''Chaetodipus''. It is sometimes grouped in the genus ''Perognathus''. Description Found mainly in rocky outcrops in the deserts of the southwes ...

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Lined pocket mouse The lined pocket mouse (''Chaetodipus lineatus'') is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. This pocket mouse is endemic to a small area of central Mexico. Description The lined pocket mouse is smaller than most pocket mice in the genus ...

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Nelson's pocket mouse Nelson's pocket mouse (''Chaetodipus nelsoni'') is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in Mexico and in New Mexico and Texas in United States. It is named in honor of the American naturalist Edward William Nelson. Descrip ...

, ''Chaetodipus nelsoni'' LC ***** Desert pocket mouse, ''Chaetodipus penicillatus'' LC ***** Sinaloan pocket mouse, ''Chaetodipus pernix'' LC *****

Baja pocket mouse The Baja pocket mouse (''Chaetodipus rudinoris'') is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. The species occurs in southern California, Baja California and on islands in the Gulf of California The Gulf of California ( es, Golfo de Ca ...

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Spiny pocket mouse The spiny pocket mouse (''Chaetodipus spinatus'') is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae and order Rodentia. It is found in Baja California in Mexico and in Arizona, California and Nevada. Description The spiny pocket mouse has long ...

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Perognathus ''Perognathus'' is a genus of pocket mouse. Like other members of their family they are more closely related to pocket gophers than to true mice. Characteristics The silky pocket mice are small animals with soft pelage, long tails, and small f ...

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Arizona pocket mouse The Arizona pocket mouse (''Perognathus amplus'') is a rodent native to the Sonoran desert. It is a small mouse with a thinly furred tail that is smooth from base to tip (i.e. it has no tuft). In color it ranges from tan to orange. It is a noctu ...

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Plains pocket mouse The plains pocket mouse (''Perognathus flavescens'') is a heteromyid rodent of North America.Monk, R. Richard, and J. Knox Jones.Perognathus flavescens" Mammalian Species 525 (1996): 1-4. It ranges from southwestern Minnesota and southeastern N ...

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Silky pocket mouse The silky pocket mouse (''Perognathus flavus'') is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in northern and central Mexico and the southwest region of the United States. It is a species of least concern, according to the IUCN, ...

, ''Perognathus flavus'' LC ***** Little pocket mouse, ''Perognathus longimembris'' LC ***** Merriam's pocket mouse, ''Perognathus merriami'' LC *Suborder:

Myomorpha The suborder Myomorpha contains 1,524 species of mouse-like rodents, nearly a quarter of all mammal species. Included are mice, rats, gerbils, hamsters, lemmings, and voles. They are grouped according to the structure of their jaws and molar ...

**Family: Cricetidae ***Subfamily: Arvicolinae ****Genus: '' Microtus'' ***** California vole, ''Microtus californicus'' LC *****

Guatemalan vole The Guatemalan vole (''Microtus guatemalensis'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico, in montane pine-oak forest and meadow at elevations between 2600 and 3100 m above sea level. It is te ...

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Tarabundí vole The Tarabundí vole (''Microtus oaxacensis'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America ...

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Jalapan pine vole The Jalapan pine vole (''Microtus quasiater'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae, found only in Mexico. The scientific name ''quasiater'' translates as "almost black", while the common name refers to the city of Jalapa, close to whe ...

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Ondatra 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 ...

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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 ...

, ''Ondatra zibethicus'' LC ***Subfamily:

Tylomyinae The subfamily Tylomyinae consists of several species of New World rats and mice including the vesper and climbing rats. They are not as well known as their relatives in the subfamilies Sigmodontinae and Neotominae. Many authorities place all th ...

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Nyctomys Sumichrast's vesper rat (''Nyctomys sumichrasti'') is a rodent of the family Cricetidae found from southern Mexico to Panama. It is named for the collector of the first specimen, and its closest relative is probably Hatt's vesper rat, a similar, ...

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Sumichrast's vesper rat Sumichrast's vesper rat (''Nyctomys sumichrasti'') is a rodent of the family Cricetidae found from southern Mexico to Panama. It is named for the collector of the first specimen, and its closest relative is probably Hatt's vesper rat, a similar, ...

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Otonyctomys Hatt's vesper rat (''Otonyctomys hatti''), also known as Hatt's vesper mouse or Yucatán vesper rat, is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is the only species in the genus ''Otonyctomys''. It is named for its discoverer, Robert T. ...

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Hatt's vesper rat Hatt's vesper rat (''Otonyctomys hatti''), also known as Hatt's vesper mouse or Yucatán vesper rat, is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is the only species in the genus ''Otonyctomys''. It is named for its discoverer, Robert T. ...

, ''Otonyctomys hatti'' LC ****Genus: ''

Ototylomys The big-eared climbing rat (''Ototylomys phyllotis'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae The Cricetidae are a family of rodents in the large and complex superfamily Muroidea. It includes true hamsters, voles, lemmings, muskrats, a ...

'' ***** Big-eared climbing rat, ''Ototylomys phyllotis'' LC ****Genus: ''

Tylomys ''Tylomys'' is a genus of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It contains the following species: * Chiapan climbing rat (''Tylomys bullaris'') * Fulvous-bellied climbing rat (''Tylomys fulviventer'') * Mira climbing rat (''Tylomys mirae'') * Peters ...

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Peters's climbing rat Peters's climbing rat (''Tylomys nudicaudus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the l ...

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Tumbala climbing rat The Tumbala climbing rat (''Tylomys tumbalensis'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Mexico, where it is known only from one locality in Tumbalá, Chiapas. The species is threatened by deforestation Deforest ...

, ''Tylomys tumbalensis'' CR ***Subfamily: Neotominae ****Genus: '' Baiomys'' *****

Southern pygmy mouse The southern pygmy mouse (''Baiomys musculus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest ...

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Northern pygmy mouse The northern pygmy mouse (''Baiomys taylori'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is known as ''ratón-pigmeo norteño'' in the Spanish-speaking areas of its range. It is found in Mexico and the United States. Parasites of the ...

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Habromys ''Habromys'' is a genus of rodent in the family Cricetidae, found in Mexico and Central America. It contains these species, all but one (''H. lophurus'') of which are threatened or endangered, five of them critically so. ''H. lophurus'' is near ...

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Chinanteco deer mouse The Chinanteco deer mouse (''Habromys chinanteco'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to Mexico. This species is known to live in only one location, on Cerro Pelón in the Sierra Juarez, Oaxaca, between 2,080 and 2,6 ...

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Delicate deer mouse The delicate deer mouse (''Habromys delicatulus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It was first described by Michael Carlton, Oscar Sanchez and Guillermina Urbano-Vidales after being discovered in a patch of cloud forest on the ...

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Ixtlán deer mouse The Ixtlán deer mouse (''Habromys ixtlani'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to southwestern Mexico, and found in the Sierra de Juárez, a subrange of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca in Oaxaca state. Although it wa ...

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Zempoaltepec deer mouse The Zempoaltepec deer mouse (''Habromys lepturus'') also known as the slender-tailed deer mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to southeastern Mexico, at one locality on Cerro Zempoaltepec above , in the Sierra ...

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Crested-tailed deer mouse The crested-tailed deer mouse (''Habromys lophurus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the souther ...

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Habromys schmidlyi ''Habromys schmidlyi'', sometimes known as Schmidly's deer mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found only in Mexico. Its natural habitat is cloud forest A cloud forest, also called a water forest, primas forest, or tropic ...

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Jico deer mouse The Jico deer mouse (''Habromys simulatus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found only in Mexico. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. References

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Hodomys Allen's woodrat (''Hodomys alleni'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is the only species in the genus ''Hodomys''. Distribution This woodrat species is endemic to Mexico. It is native from southern Sinaloa to Oaxaca states ...

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Megadontomys ''Megadontomys'' is a genus of rodent in the family Cricetidae, found in Mexico. It contains the following species: * Oaxaca giant deer mouse The Oaxaca giant deer mouse (''Megadontomys cryophilus'') is a species of rodent in the family Crice ...

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Oaxaca giant deer mouse The Oaxaca giant deer mouse (''Megadontomys cryophilus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of ...

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Nelson's giant deer mouse Nelson's giant deer mouse (''Megadontomys nelsoni'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North ...

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Thomas's giant deer mouse Thomas's giant deer mouse (''Megadontomys thomasi'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North ...

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Goldman's diminutive woodrat Goldman's diminutive woodrat (''Nelsonia goldmani'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North ...

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Diminutive woodrat The diminutive woodrat (''Nelsonia neotomodon'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North Ameri ...

, ''Nelsonia neotomodon'' NT ****Genus: '' Neotoma'' *****

White-throated woodrat The white-throated woodrat (''Neotoma albigula'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found from central Mexico north to Utah and Colorado in the United States. It is primarily a western species in the United States, extending ...

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Turner Island woodrat The Turner Island woodrat (''Neotoma albigula varia'') is a subspecies of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of ...

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Tamaulipan woodrat The Tamaulipan woodrat (''Neotoma angustapalata'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North A ...

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Bryant's woodrat Bryant's woodrat (''Neotoma bryanti'') is a species of new-world rodent in the family Cricetidae native to the Southwestern United States and Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the south ...

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Anthony's woodrat Anthony's woodrat (''Neotoma bryanti anthonyi'') is an extinct subspecies of Bryant's woodrat in the family Cricetidae. It was found only on Isla Todos Santos in Baja California, Mexico. It is thought to have been driven to extinction Exti ...

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Arizona woodrat The Arizona woodrat (''Neotoma devia'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Mexico and United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, i ...

, ''Neotoma devia'' LC ***** Dusky-footed woodrat, ''Neotoma fuscipes'' LC *****

Goldman's woodrat Goldman's woodrat (''Neotoma goldmani'') is a rodent species in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico throughout the Mexican Plateau, stretching from southeastern Chihuahua to southern San Luis Potosí and northern Querétaro. The pl ...

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Desert woodrat The desert woodrat (''Neotoma lepida'') is a species of pack rat native to desert regions of western North America. Description Desert woodrats are relatively small for pack rats, measuring in length, including a tail. They weigh from , wi ...

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White-toothed woodrat ''Neotoma leucodon'' is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. Although originally named from San Luis Potosí, Mexico, as a species by Merriam, the white-toothed woodrat was long considered to be a synonym of the white-throated woodrat ( ...

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Big-eared woodrat The big-eared woodrat (''Neotoma macrotis'') is a nocturnal rodent of the woodrat genus '' Neotoma'', in the family Cricetidae. Closely related to, and formerly included in the species '' Neotoma fuscipes'', it is endemic to western North Amer ...

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Mexican woodrat The Mexican woodrat (''Neotoma mexicana'') is a medium-sized pack rat. Distribution and habitat It ranges from the United States (Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and parts of Arizona and Trans-Pecos Texas) south to Honduras. Although occurring at l ...

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Southern plains woodrat The Southern Plains woodrat (''Neotoma micropus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in northwest Mexico and in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas in the United States. The subspecies ''Neotoma micropus ...

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Nelson's woodrat Nelson's woodrat (''Neotoma nelsoni'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to Mexico, where it is known only from the eastern slopes of the volcanoes Orizaba and Cofre de Perote. Due to the small geographic range, ...

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Bolaños woodrat Bolaños may refer to: Places * Bolaños, Jalisco, in town in Mexico. * Bolaños Municipality, in Mexico. * Bolaños River, in Mexico * Bolaños de Calatrava, a city in Spain * Bolaños de Campos, a municipality in Spain * Tobías Bolaños Inter ...

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Sonoran woodrat The Sonoran woodrat (''Neotoma phenax'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found only in Mexico. References

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Neotomodon The Mexican volcano mouse (''Neotomodon alstoni'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae endemic to high elevation areas of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. Taxonomy and systematics Merriam originally described the Mexican volcano mous ...

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Mexican volcano mouse The Mexican volcano mouse (''Neotomodon alstoni'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae endemic to high elevation areas of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. Taxonomy and systematics Merriam originally described the Mexican volcano mous ...

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Osgoodomys The Michoacan deer mouse (''Osgoodomys banderanus'') is a species of rodent Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of th ...

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Michoacan deer mouse The Michoacan deer mouse (''Osgoodomys banderanus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae The Cricetidae are a family of rodents in the large and complex superfamily Muroidea. It includes true hamsters, voles, lemmings, muskrats, a ...

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Peromyscus ''Peromyscus'' is a genus of rodents. They are commonly referred to as deer mice or deermice, not to be confused with the chevrotain or "mouse deer". They are New World mice only distantly related to the common house and laboratory mouse, ''Mu ...

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Aztec mouse The Aztec mouse (''Peromyscus aztecus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae, native to southern Mexico and parts of Central America. Description The Aztec mouse is a typically sized member of its genus, with a total length of , abou ...

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Orizaba deer mouse The Orizaba deer mouse (''Peromyscus beatae'') is a small species of rodent in the family Cricetidae, native to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country i ...

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Brush mouse The brush mouse (''Peromyscus boylii'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in mountainous areas of Mexico and the western United States at altitudes over . Description The brush mouse is medium-sized, with small ears a ...

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Perote mouse The Perote mouse (''Peromyscus bullatus''), or Perote deer mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico. Description The Perote mouse is the size of a small rat, with a total length of , including a hairy t ...

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California mouse The California deermouse or California mouse (''Peromyscus californicus'') is a species of rodent in the subfamily Neotominae in the family Cricetidae. It is the only species in the ''Peromyscus californicus'' species group. It is found in nort ...

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Burt's deer mouse Burt's deer mouse (''Peromyscus caniceps'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to Mexico, where it is found only on Montserrat Island off the east coast of Baja California Sur. The species is threatened by predation ...

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Canyon mouse The canyon mouse (''Peromyscus crinitus'') is a gray-brown mouse found in many states of the western United States and northern Mexico. Its preferred habitat is arid, rocky desert. Vegetation has little or no effect on the distribution of canyon ...

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Dickey's deer mouse Dickey's deer mouse (''Peromyscus dickeyi'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to Mexico, being found only on a small island in the Gulf of California. The species is named for Donald Dickey, who sponsored the expedi ...

, ''Peromyscus dickeyi'' CR ***** Zacatecan deer mouse, ''Peromyscus difficilis'' LC *****

Cactus mouse The cactus mouse (''Peromyscus eremicus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is a species of the genus ''Peromyscus'', a closely related group of New World mice often called "deermice" (although the term more commonly refers sp ...

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Eva's desert mouse Eva's desert mouse (''Peromyscus eva'') is a species of rodent in the genus ''Peromyscus'' of the family Cricetidae found only in the Baja California peninsula of Mexico.Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 ' ...

, ''Peromyscus eva'' LC *****

Northern Baja deer mouse The Northern Baja deer mouse (''Peromyscus fraterculus'') is a species of deer mouse native to Southern California and the Baja California peninsula as well as several islands in the Gulf of California The Gulf of California ( es, Golfo de C ...

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Blackish deer mouse The blackish deer mouse (''Peromyscus furvus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found only in Mexico, and is relatively poorly studied. Description The blackish deer mouse is a relatively large member of its genus, with a total ...

, ''Peromyscus furvus'' DD ***** Osgood's mouse, ''Peromyscus gratus'' LC ***** Angel Island mouse, ''Peromyscus guardia'' CR *****

Guatemalan deer mouse The Guatemalan deer mouse (''Peromyscus guatemalensis'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Guatemala and Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern po ...

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Naked-eared deer mouse The naked-eared deer mouse (''Peromyscus gymnotis'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the lar ...

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Hooper's mouse Hooper's mouse (''Peromyscus hooperi'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is the only member of the ''Peromyscus hooperi'' species group, and is found only in Mexico. The species is named for Emmett Hooper, a researcher into th ...

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Transvolcanic deer mouse The transvolcanic deer mouse (''Peromyscus hylocetes'') is a species of rodent in the genus ''Peromyscus'' of the family Cricetidae found only in Mexico. Habitat The Transvolcanic deer mouse is found from west central Jalisco eastwards to Mexico ...

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San Lorenzo mouse The San Lorenzo mouse (''Peromyscus interparietalis'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to Mexico, where it is found only from the islands of San Lorenzo Norte, San Lorenzo Sur, and Salsipuedes off the east coast of ...

, ''Peromyscus interparietalis'' CR ***** White-footed mouse, ''Peromyscus leucopus'' LC *****

Nimble-footed mouse The nimble-footed mouse (''Peromyscus levipes'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico. Description The nimble-footed mouse has a typical mouse-like appearance, and closely resembles other members of the ''P ...

, ''Peromyscus levipes'' LC *****

Tres Marias Island mouse Tres may refer to: * Tres (instrument), a Cuban musical instrument * Tres, Trentino, municipality in Italy * "Tres" (song) by Juanes * "Tres", a song by Líbido from their album ''Hembra'' * TrES, the ''Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey'' * Templi R ...

, ''Peromyscus madrensis'' EN ***** Deer mouse, ''Peromyscus maniculatus'' LC *****

Brown deer mouse The brown deer mouse (''Peromyscus megalops'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It ...

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Puebla deer mouse The Puebla deer mouse (''Peromyscus mekisturus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. Only two specimens are known, both from Puebla, Mexico, with the last collected in 1947. It is therefore possible that the species is now extinct ...

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Zempoaltepec The black-wristed deer mouse (''Peromyscus melanocarpus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in the Sierras de Zempoaltépec, Juárez, and Mazteca, sub-ranges of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca in southern Mexico Mex ...

, ''Peromyscus melanocarpus'' EN *****

Plateau mouse The plateau mouse (''Peromyscus melanophrys'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North Ameri ...

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Black-eared mouse The black-eared mouse (''Peromyscus melanotis''), or black-eared deer mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae, native to North America. Description The black-eared mouse is one of the smaller species in the genus ''Peromyscus'', m ...

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Black-tailed mouse The black-tailed mouse (''Peromyscus melanurus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae endemic to Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. I ...

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Mesquite mouse The mesquite mouse (''Peromyscus merriami'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found in Mexico and in Arizona in the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or U ...

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Mexican deer mouse The Mexican deer mouse (''Peromyscus mexicanus'') is a species of forest-dwelling rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in southern Mexico and throughout much of Central America. Description Mexican deer mice are moderately sized mouse-li ...

, ''Peromyscus mexicanus'' LC *****

Northern rock mouse The northern rock mouse (''Peromyscus nasutus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Mexico and the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) ...

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El Carrizo deer mouse The El Carrizo deer mouse (''Peromyscus ochraventer'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of N ...

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White-ankled mouse The white-ankled mouse (''Peromyscus pectoralis'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Mexico and in New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas in the United States. The white-ankled mouse is commonly found in coexistence with th ...

, ''Peromyscus pectoralis'' LC *****

Pemberton's deer mouse Pemberton's deer mouse (''Peromyscus pembertoni'') lived on San Pedro Nolasco Island () in the Gulf of California. The last 12 specimens were collected on 26 December 1931. Etymology The generic name comes from the Ancient Greek Ancien ...

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Tawny deer mouse The tawny deer mouseMusser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. (2005). Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in ''Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference''. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. ...

, ''Peromyscus perfulvus'' LC *****

Chihuahuan mouse The Chihuahuan mouse (''Peromyscus polius'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North Americ ...

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False canyon mouse The false canyon mouse or Coronados deer mouse (''Peromyscus pseudocrinitus''), is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is known only from Coronados Island, a small island in the Gulf of California, part of Baja California Sur, Mexic ...

, ''Peromyscus pseudocrinitus'' CR ***** La Palma field mouse, ''Peromyscus sagax'' DD ***** Schmidly's deer mouse, ''Peromyscus schmidlyi'' LC *****

Santa Cruz mouse The Santa Cruz mouse (''Peromyscus sejugis'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to Mexico, where it is found only on two small islands in the southern Gulf of California. Feral cats on Santa Cruz Island are a threat. ...

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Nayarit mouse The Nayarit mouse or Sinaloan deer mouse (''Peromyscus simulus'') is a species of cricetid rodent endemic to Mexico. It was considered a subspecies of brush mouse until 1977. Description The Nayarit mouse is the smallest mouse within the ''P. ...

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Slevin's mouse Slevin's mouse (''Peromyscus slevini''), also known as the Catalina deer mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to Isla Santa Catalina off the east coast of Baja California Sur, an island with an area of about , and ...

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Gleaning mouse The gleaning mouse (''Peromyscus spicilegus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North Amer ...

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San Esteban Island mouse The San Esteban Island mouse (''Peromyscus stephani'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to Mexico, where it is known only from San Esteban Island in the northern Gulf of California The Gulf of California ( es, G ...

, ''Peromyscus stephani'' CR *****

Pinyon mouse The pinyon mouse (''Peromyscus truei'') is native to the southwestern United States and Baja California in Mexico. These medium-sized mice are often distinguished by their relatively large ears. The range of this species extends from southern ...

, ''Peromyscus truei'' LC *****

Winkelmann's mouse Winkelmann's mouse (''Peromyscus winkelmanni'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found only in Mexico, and is named for John R. Winkelmann, who collected the first specimens. Description Rather larger than a house mouse, an adult ...

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Yucatan deer mouse The Yucatan deer mouse (''Peromyscus yucatanicus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. The species is found in Mexico and Guatemala; an example habitat is the Petenes mangroves ecoregion of the Yucatan. References * G.G.Musser and ...

, ''Peromyscus yucatanicus'' LC *****

Chiapan deer mouse The Chiapan deer mouse (''Peromyscus zarhynchus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico. Distribution and habitat The Chiapan deer mouse is endemic to central and southeast Chiapas, México. The species occ ...

, ''Peromyscus zarhynchus'' VU ****Genus: ''

Reithrodontomys ''Reithrodontomys'' is the genus of groove-toothed New World harvest mice. Species This genus contains these species: *Baker's small-toothed harvest mouse, ''Reithrodontomys bakeri'' *Short-nosed harvest mouse, ''Reithrodontomys brevirostris'' * ...

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Baker's small-toothed harvest mouse Baker's small-toothed harvest mouse (''Reithrodontomys bakeri'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is one of about 20 species of the genus ''Reithrodontomys''. This species was discovered in 2004 and is found in Central Mexico ...

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Sonoran harvest mouse The Sonoran harvest mouse (''Reithrodontomys burti'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of Nort ...

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Volcano harvest mouse The volcano harvest mouse (''Reithrodontomys chrysopsis'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of ...

, ''Reithrodontomys chrysopsis'' LC *****

Fulvous harvest mouse The fulvous harvest mouse (''Reithrodontomys fulvescens'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and the United States. Description About 17 subspecies of ''R. ful ...

, ''Reithrodontomys fulvescens'' LC *****

Slender harvest mouse The slender harvest mouse(''Reithrodontomys gracilis'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. A small mouse-like rodent distributed throughout a portion Central America. Description The slender harvest mouse has short pale pelage. Uppe ...

, ''Reithrodontomys gracilis'' LC *****

Hairy harvest mouse The hairy harvest mouse (''Reithrodontomys hirsutus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found only in Mexico. References

*Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 ''in'' Mammal Species ...

, ''Reithrodontomys hirsutus'' VU *****

Western harvest mouse The western harvest mouse (''Reithrodontomys megalotis'') is a small neotomine mouse native to most of the western United States. Many authorities consider the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse to be a subspecies, but the two are now usually ...

, ''Reithrodontomys megalotis'' LC *****

Mexican harvest mouse The Mexican harvest mouse (''Reithrodontomys mexicanus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is ...

, ''Reithrodontomys mexicanus'' LC ***** Small-toothed harvest mouse, ''Reithrodontomys microdon'' LC ***** Plains harvest mouse, ''Reithrodontomys montanus'' LC *****

Cozumel harvest mouse The Cozumel harvest mouse (''Reithrodontomys spectabilis'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to the Mexican island of Cozumel off the Yucatán Peninsula. It is nocturnal and semiareboreal, and lives in dense sec ...

, ''Reithrodontomys spectabilis'' CR *****

Sumichrast's harvest mouse Sumichrast's harvest mouse (''Reithrodontomys sumichrasti'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ) ...

, ''Reithrodontomys sumichrasti'' LC *****

Narrow-nosed harvest mouse The narrow-nosed harvest mouse (''Reithrodontomys tenuirostris'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Guatemala and Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the so ...

, ''Reithrodontomys tenuirostris'' VU *****

Zacatecas harvest mouse The Zacatecas harvest mouse (''Reithrodontomys zacatecae'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion o ...

, ''Reithrodontomys zacatecae'' LC ****Genus: ''

Scotinomys ''Scotinomys'' is a genus of rodent, the singing mice, in the family Cricetidae. Together with ''Baiomys'', it forms the tribe Baiomyini Baiomyini is a tribe of rodents in the subfamily Neotominae occurring from the southern United States to P ...

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Alston's brown mouse Alston's brown mouse, also called Alston's singing mouse, short-tailed singing mouse, or singing mouse (''Scotinomys teguina''), is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Central America, from Chiapas, Mexico, to western Pan ...

, ''Scotinomys teguina'' LC ****Genus: ''

Xenomys The Magdalena rat (''Xenomys nelsoni'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae which is found only in a small region of western Mexico. It is the only species in the genus ''Xenomys''. The common name comes from the village where the ...

'' ***** Magdalena rat, ''Xenomys nelsoni'' EN ***Subfamily:

Sigmodontinae The rodent subfamily Sigmodontinae includes New World rats and mice, with at least 376 species. Many authorities include the Neotominae and Tylomyinae as part of a larger definition of Sigmodontinae. When those genera are included, the specie ...

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Handleyomys ''Handleyomys'' is a genus of Central and South American rodents in the tribe Oryzomyini of family Cricetidae. It was first described in 2002 to include two species from the Colombian Andes which were previously included in distinct and unrelat ...

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Alfaro's rice rat ''Handleyomys alfaroi'', also known as Alfaro's rice rat or Alfaro's oryzomys,Musser and Carleton, 2005 is a species of rodent in the genus ''Handleyomys'' of family Cricetidae. It is found in Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, ...

, ''Handleyomys alfaroi'' LC ***** Chapman's rice rat, ''Handleyomys chapmani'' LC *****

Black-eared rice rat ''Handleyomys melanotis'', also known as the black-eared oryzomysMusser and Carleton, 2005 or black-eared rice rat, is a species of rodent in the genus ''Handleyomys'' of family Cricetidae. It is found in coastal lowland forest in western Mexico ...

, ''Handleyomys melanotis'' LC ***** Striped rice rat, ''Handleyomys rhabdops'' VU *****

Long-nosed rice rat ''Handleyomys rostratus'', also known as the long-nosed oryzomys, long-nosed rice rat, or rusty rice rat is a species of rodent in the genus '' Handleyomys'' of family Cricetidae. It is found in Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico ...

, ''Handleyomys rostratus'' LC ***** Cloud forest rice rat, ''Handleyomys saturatior'' NT ****Genus: ''

Oligoryzomys ''Oligoryzomys'' is a genus of rodents in the tribe Oryzomyini of family Cricetidae. Many species are known as pygmy rice rats or colilargos.Musser and Carleton, 2005 The genus is found from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego and includes approximately 1 ...

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Fulvous pygmy rice rat ''Oligoryzomys fulvescens'', also known as the fulvous colilargo,Musser and Carleton, 2005 fulvous pygmy rice rat, or northern pygmy rice rat,Duff and Lawson, 2004 is a species of rodent in the genus ''Oligoryzomys'' of family Cricetidae. It is fo ...

, ''Oligoryzomys fulvescens'' LC ****Genus: ''

Onychomys Grasshopper mice are rodents of the genus ''Onychomys'', occurring in North America. They feed on insects and other arthropods. Biology The three species in this genus of New World mice are only distantly related to the common house mouse, ''Mu ...

'' ***** Chihuahuan grasshopper mouse, ''Onychomys arenicola'' LC *****

Northern grasshopper mouse The northern grasshopper mouse (''Onychomys leucogaster'') is a North American carnivorous rodent of the family Cricetidae. It ranges over much of the western part of the continent, from southern Saskatchewan and central Washington to Tamaulipas ...

, ''Onychomys leucogaster'' LC ***** Southern grasshopper mouse, ''Onychomys torridus'' LC ****Genus: ''

Oryzomys ''Oryzomys'' is a genus of semiaquatic rodents in the tribe Oryzomyini living in southern North America and far northern South America. It includes eight species, two of which—the marsh rice rat (''O. palustris'') of the United States and ...

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White-bellied rice rat ''Oryzomys albiventer'' is a rodent in the genus ''Oryzomys'' of family Cricetidae from interior western Mexico, in the states of Jalisco, Guanajuato, and Michoacán. First described in 1901 as a separate species, it was later lumped under '' ...

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Coues' rice rat ''Oryzomys couesi'', also known as Coues's rice rat, is a semiaquatic rodent in the family Cricetidae occurring from southernmost Texas through Mexico and Central America into northwestern Colombia. It is usually found in wet habitats, such as ...

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Nelson's rice rat ''Oryzomys nelsoni'' is an extinct rodent of María Madre Island, Nayarit, Mexico. Within the genus ''Oryzomys'' of the family Cricetidae, it may have been most closely related to the mainland species '' O. albiventer''. Since its first des ...

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Marsh rice rat The marsh rice rat (''Oryzomys palustris'') is a semiaquatic North American rodent in the family Cricetidae. It usually occurs in wetland habitats, such as swamps and salt marshes. It is found mostly in the eastern and southern United States, fr ...

, ''Oryzomys palustris'' LC *****

Lower California rice rat ''Oryzomys peninsulae'', also known as the Lower California rice rat, is a species of rodent from western Mexico. Restricted to the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, it is a member of the genus ''Oryzomys'' of family Cricetidae. Onl ...

, ''Oryzomys peninsulae'' ****Genus: '' Rheomys'' ***** Mexican water mouse, ''Rheomys mexicanus'' EN ***** Thomas's water mouse, ''Rheomys thomasi'' NT ****Genus: '' Sigmodon'' *****

Allen's cotton rat Allen's cotton rat (''Sigmodon alleni'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to western Mexico, where its distribution extends from Sinaloa to Oaxaca. The formerly recognized '' S. planifrons'' and '' S. vulcani'' are n ...

, ''Sigmodon alleni'' VU ***** Arizona cotton rat, ''Sigmodon arizonae'' LC *****

Tawny-bellied cotton rat The tawny-bellied cotton rat (''Sigmodon fulviventer'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Mexico and in the US states of Arizona and New Mexico. Description Sexual dimorphism is not present, but the adult male ...

, ''Sigmodon fulviventer'' LC *****

Southern cotton rat The southern cotton rat (''Sigmodon hirsutus'') is a rodent species in the family Cricetidae. It is found from southern Chiapas in Mexico through Central America, except for Belize, and as far east as northern Colombia and Venezuela. It lives in ...

, ''Sigmodon hirsutus'' LC *****

Hispid cotton rat The hispid cotton rat (''Sigmodon hispidus'') is a rodent species long thought to occur in parts of South America, Central America, and southern North America. However, recent taxonomic revisions, based on mitochondrial DNA sequence data, have ...

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White-eared cotton rat The white-eared cotton rat (''Sigmodon leucotis'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North A ...

, ''Sigmodon leucotis'' LC ***** Jaliscan cotton rat, ''Sigmodon mascotensis'' LC *****

Yellow-nosed cotton rat The yellow-nosed cotton rat (''Sigmodon ochrognathus'') is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is native to Mexico and to the states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas in the United States, where it inhabits mountain grassland, scru ...

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Miahuatlán cotton rat The Miahuatlán cotton rat (''Sigmodon planifrons'') was formerly considered a rodent species in the family Cricetidae. It is found only on the Pacific slope of the Sierra de Miahuatlán in the Mexican state of Oaxaca Oaxaca ( , also , , from ...

, ''Sigmodon planifrons'' EN ***** Toltec cotton rat, ''Sigmodon toltecus'' LC

Order: Lagomorpha (lagomorphs)

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The lagomorphs comprise two families, Leporidae (

hare Hares and jackrabbits are mammals belonging to the genus ''Lepus''. They are herbivores, and live solitarily or in pairs. They nest in slight depressions called forms, and their young are able to fend for themselves shortly after birth. The ge ...

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rabbit Rabbits, also known as bunnies or bunny rabbits, are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also contains the hares) of the order Lagomorpha (which also contains the pikas). ''Oryctolagus cuniculus'' includes the European rabbit speci ...

s), and Ochotonidae ( pikas). Though they can resemble rodents, and were classified as a

superfamily SUPERFAMILY is a database and search platform of structural and functional annotation for all proteins and genomes. It classifies amino acid sequences into known structural domains, especially into SCOP superfamilies. Domains are functional, str ...

in that order until the early 20th century, they have since been considered a separate order. They differ from rodents in a number of physical characteristics, such as having four incisors in the upper jaw rather than two. The endangered volcano rabbit of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt is the world's second smallest rabbit. In North America, pikas are not found south of southern California and northern New Mexico. *Family: Leporidae (rabbits, hares) **Genus: '' Romerolagus'' *** Volcano rabbit, ''R. diazi'' **Genus: '' Sylvilagus'' *** Desert cottontail, ''S. audubonii'' ***

Brush rabbit The brush rabbit (''Sylvilagus bachmani''), or western brush rabbit, or Californian brush rabbit, is a species of cottontail rabbit found in western coastal regions of North America, from the Columbia River in Oregon to the southern tip of the ...

, ''S. bachmani'' **** San Jose brush rabbit, ''S. b. mansuetus'' ***

Mexican cottontail The Mexican cottontail (''Sylvilagus cunicularius'') is a species of cottontail rabbit in the family Leporidae. It is endemic to Mexico where its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry forests and pastureland. Taxono ...

, ''S. cunicularius'' *** Eastern cottontail, ''S. floridanus'' ***

Central American tapetí Central is an adjective usually referring to being in the center of some place or (mathematical) object. Central may also refer to: Directions and generalised locations * Central Africa, a region in the centre of Africa continent, also known a ...

, ''S. gabbi'' ***

Tres Marias cottontail The Tres Marias cottontail or Tres Marias rabbit (''Sylvilagus graysoni'') is a species of mammal in the family Leporidae. Distribution and habitat It is endemic to the Tres Marias Islands, part of the Mexican state of Nayarit. The rabbit is a ...

, ''S. graysoni'' ***

Robust cottontail The robust cottontail or Holzner's cottontail (''Sylvilagus holzneri'') is a species of cottontail rabbit native to high-altitude regions of the southwestern United States and western Mexico. Taxonomy This species and the subspecies comprising i ...

, ''S. holzneri'' presence uncertain *** Omilteme cottontail, ''S. insonus'' **Genus: '' Lepus'' ***

Antelope jackrabbit The antelope jackrabbit (''Lepus alleni'') is a species of North American hare found in southern Arizona and northwestern Mexico that occupies dry desert areas. Behaviour It is most active during twilight ( crepuscular) and during the night ( no ...

, ''L. alleni'' ***

Tamaulipas jackrabbit The Tamaulipas jackrabbit (''Lepus altamirae''), also known as the Tamaulipas white-sided jackrabbit, is a species of hare Endemism, endemic to the Gulf Coast of Mexico, Gulf Coast of Mexico. Taxonomy and evolution It was formerly thought to b ...

, ''L. altamirae'' *** Black-tailed jackrabbit, ''L. californicus'' ***

White-sided jackrabbit The white-sided jackrabbit (''Lepus callotis''), also known as the Mexican hare, is a jackrabbit found in a limited range in North America, from southern New Mexico to northwestern and central Mexico. The animal is considered threatened in New M ...

, ''L. callotis'' ***

Tehuantepec jackrabbit The Tehuantepec jackrabbit (''Lepus flavigularis'') is a jackrabbit endemic to Mexico. Description It is easily distinguished from other species by two black stripes that run from the base of the ears to the nape, and by its white flanks. Its un ...

, ''L. flavigularis'' *** Black jackrabbit, ''L. insularis''

Order: Eulipotyphla (shrews, hedgehogs, moles, and solenodons)

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Eulipotyphlans are insectivorous mammals. Shrews and solenodons closely resemble mice, hedgehogs carry spines, while moles are stout-bodied burrowers. In the Americas, moles are not present south of the northernmost tier of Mexican states, where they are rare. *Family: Soricidae (shrews) **Subfamily: Soricinae ***Tribe: Blarinini ****Genus: '' Cryptotis'' *****

Central Mexican broad-clawed shrew The Central Mexican broad-clawed shrew (''Cryptotis alticola'' ) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in the highlands above 2000 m in the Mexican states of Colima, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Mexico, and Puebla, Morelos ...

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Goldman's broad-clawed shrew Goldman's broad-clawed shrew (''Cryptotis goldmani'') is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Guatemala and Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern porti ...

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Goodwin's broad-clawed shrew Goodwin's broad-clawed shrew (''Cryptotis goodwini'') is a species of mammal in the shrew family, Soricidae. Body length and size of adults average 9.49 cm and 7.0 grams respectively making it a relatively larger shew. What distinguishes th ...

, ''Cryptotis goodwini'' LC *****

Guatemalan broad-clawed shrew The Guatemalan broad-clawed shrew (''Cryptotis griseoventris'') is a species of small-eared shrew in the family Soricidae. It is known from Guatemala and the Mexican state of Chiapas, where it has been found in montane forests of oak, pine and f ...

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Big Mexican small-eared shrew The big Mexican small-eared shrew (''Cryptotis magna'') is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign stat ...

, ''Cryptotis magna'' VU ***** Yucatan small-eared shrew, ''Cryptotis mayensis'' LC *****

Merriam's small-eared shrew Merriam's small-eared shrew (''Cryptotis merriami'') is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), official ...

, ''Cryptotis merriami'' LC ***** Mexican small-eared shrew, ''Cryptotis mexicana'' LC *****

Nelson's small-eared shrew Nelson's small-eared shrew (''Cryptotis nelsoni'') is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to eastern Mexico. The species was discovered by Edward William Nelson and Edward Alphonso Goldman in 1894, who collected a number ...

, ''Cryptotis nelsoni'' CR ***** Grizzled Mexican small-eared shrew, ''Cryptotis obscura'' LC *****

North American least shrew The North American least shrew (''Cryptotis parvus'') is one of the smallest mammals, growing to be only up to 3 inches long. It has a long pointed snout and a tail never more than twice the length of its hind foot. The dense fur coat is e ...

, ''Cryptotis parva'' LC *****

Oaxacan broad-clawed shrew The Oaxacan broad-clawed shrew (''Cryptotis peregrina'') is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Oaxaca in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion ...

, ''Cryptotis peregrina'' DD ***** Phillips' small-eared shrew, ''Cryptotis phillipsii'' VU *****

Tropical small-eared shrew The tropical small-eared shrew (''Cryptotis tropicalis'') is a very small mammal of the family Soricidae. The species is found in the eastern highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, and parts of Belize Belize (; bzj, Bileez) is a Caribbean and C ...

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Notiosoricini Notiosoricini, whose members are known as the North American gray shrews, is a tribe of shrews in the family Soricidae, including the genera ''Megasorex'' and ''Notiosorex''. They are found across the southwestern United States and most of Mexic ...

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Megasorex The Mexican shrew (''Megasorex gigas'') is a species of mammal from the subfamily Soricinae in the family Soricidae. It is monotypic within the genus ''Megasorex'' and is endemic to Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United ...

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Mexican shrew The Mexican shrew (''Megasorex gigas'') is a species of mammal from the subfamily Soricinae in the family Soricidae. It is monotypic within the genus ''Megasorex'' and is endemic to Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United ...

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Notiosorex ''Notiosorex'' is a genus of Shrew (animal), shrew from the subfamily Soricinae. History ''Notiosorex'' shrews have a fossil history that extends to the Miocene (i.e., mid-Hemphillian). The geographic distribution of the genus has always been in ...

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Cockrum's gray shrew ''Notiosorex cockrumi'', also called Cockrum's gray shrew or Cockrum's desert shrew, is a tiny species of shrews named in 2003. This red-toothed shrew, which is as light as a penny, is the first new mammal species from Arizona since 1977. Its r ...

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Crawford's gray shrew Crawford's gray shrew (''Notiosorex crawfordi''), also known as the desert shrew, is a small shrew found in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. It is a member of the family Soricidae of the order Eulipotyphla. It was the only ...

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Large-eared gray shrew The large-eared gray shrew (''Notiosorex evotis'') is a species of shrew Shrews (family Soricidae) are small mole-like mammals classified in the order Eulipotyphla. True shrews are not to be confused with treeshrews, otter shrews, elephant s ...

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Villa's gray shrew Villa's gray shrew (''Notiosorex villai'') is a shrew native to northeastern Mexico, where it is called ''musaraña''. It is assessed vulnerable by the IUCN due to its small extent of occurrence and degradation of habitat. Taxonomy The shrew ...

, ''Notiosorex villai'' VU ***Tribe: Soricini ****Genus: '' Sorex'' *****

Arizona shrew The Arizona shrew (''Sorex arizonae'') is a species of shrew native to North America. Description The Arizona shrew is one of the smaller species of shrew, with a head and body in length, and a tail about long. When fully grown, they weigh an ...

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Zacatecas shrew The Zacatecas shrew (''Sorex emarginatus'') is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Mexico. It inhabits the southeastern Sierra Madre Occidental The Sierra Madre Occidental is a major mountain range system of the No ...

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Sorex ixtlanensis The Ixtlan shrew (''Sorex ixtlanensis'') is a species of mammal Mammals () are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding ...

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Large-toothed shrew The large-toothed shrew or Mexican large-toothed shrew (''Sorex macrodon'') is one of 77 species within the genus ''Sorex''. Registered on the IUCN Red List as vulnerable with a decreasing population, the Mexican large-toothed shrew has been reco ...

, ''Sorex macrodon'' VU ***** '' Sorex mediopua'' LC ***** Carmen Mountain shrew, ''Sorex milleri'' VU ***** Montane shrew, ''Sorex monticolus'' LC *****

Mexican long-tailed shrew The Mexican long-tailed shrew (''Sorex oreopolus'') is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North Ame ...

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Orizaba long-tailed shrew The Orizaba long-tailed shrew (''Sorex orizabae'') is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in the states of Federal District, México, Michoacán, Morelos, Puebla, Tlaxcala, and Veracruz in Mexico. It is named after Pico ...

, ''Sorex orizabae'' LC ***** Ornate shrew, ''Sorex ornatus'' LC ***** Saussure's shrew, ''Sorex saussurei'' LC *****

Sclater's shrew Sclater's shrew (''Sorex sclateri'') is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Mexico. Sclater's shrew is known only from two locations in Chiapas, the type locality in Tumbala at elevation, and from one other location nea ...

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San Cristobal shrew The San Cristobal shrew (''Sorex stizodon'') is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Mexico. It is known only from the Huitepec Ecological Reserve west of San Cristóbal de las Casas in the Chiapas Highlands of central ...

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Chestnut-bellied shrew The chestnut-bellied shrew (''Sorex ventralis'') is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North Americ ...

, ''Sorex ventralis'' LC ***** Veracruz shrew, ''Sorex veraecrucis'' LC *****

Verapaz shrew The Verapaz shrew (''Sorex veraepacis'') is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Guatemala and Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North ...

, ''Sorex veraepacis'' LC *Family: Talpidae (moles) **Subfamily: Scalopinae ***Tribe:

Scalopini The Scalopini are a tribe of moles belonging to the family Talpidae. They include all the New World moles apart from the strikingly distinctive star-nosed mole. As the similarity of the names implies, they are the standard form of the Scalopinae ...

****Genus: '' Scalopus'' ***** Eastern mole, ''Scalopus aquaticus'' LC ****Genus: '' Scapanus'' *****

Southern broad-footed mole The southern broad-footed mole (''Scapanus occultus'') is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is found only in the U.S. state of California and northernmost Baja California in Mexico. Taxonomy It was formerly considered a subspecie ...

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Mexican mole The Mexican mole (''Scapanus anthonyi'') is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is endemic to Baja California in Mexico, where it is restricted to the highlands of the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir mountain range. Its specific epithet ...

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Hairy-legged vampire bat, Diphylla ecaudata (closeup)

The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals. *Family: Noctilionidae **Genus: '' Noctilio'' ***

Lesser bulldog bat The lesser bulldog bat (''Noctilio albiventris'') is an insectivorous and occasionally carnivorous bat of the (Neotropics), ranging through Central America and northern South America. Some unique characteristics of the bat include, large feet tha ...

, ''Noctilio albiventris'' LC *** Greater bulldog bat, ''Noctilio leporinus'' LC *Family: Vespertilionidae **Subfamily:

Myotinae Myotinae is a subfamily of vesper bats. It contains three genera: ''Eudiscopus'', '' Myotis'', and ''Submyotodon''. Before the description of ''Submyotodon'' and analysis of its phylogenetics, as well as a phylogenetic analysis of ''Eudiscopus'', ...

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Lasionycteris The silver-haired bat (''Lasionycteris noctivagans'') is a solitary migratory species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae and the only member of the genus ''Lasionycteris''. Etymology The species name translates as night-wandering, ref ...

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Silver-tipped myotis The silver-tipped myotis (''Myotis albescens'') is a species of mouse-eared bat found in a range of lowland habitats in the Americas. It is part of the vesper bat genus ''Myotis'', which includes many common species across the world. Genetic ana ...

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Southwestern myotis The southwestern myotis (''Myotis auriculus'') is a species of vesper bat. It is found in Guatemala, Mexico, and in Arizona and New Mexico in the United States. Taxonomy The southwestern myotis is a member of the order Chiroptera and the famil ...

, ''Myotis auriculus'' LC **** California myotis, ''Myotis californicus'' LC ****

Western small-footed myotis The western small-footed bat (''Myotis ciliolabrum''), also known as the western small-footed myotis, is a species of vesper bat native to North America. Description Western small-footed bats are relatively small bats, having a total length of , ...

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Elegant myotis The elegant myotis (''Myotis elegans'') is a species of vesper bat found in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Description The elegant myotis is a small bat, with a body weight of about 4 g. Its fur is b ...

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Long-eared myotis The long-eared myotis (''Myotis evotis'') is a species of vesper bat in the suborder Microchiroptera. It can be found in western Canada, the western United States, and Baja California in Mexico. Description The long-eared myotis is a pale brown ...

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Findley's myotis Findley's myotis (''Myotis findleyi'') is a species of vesper bat. It is found only on the Tres Marías Islands off the west coast of Mexico. Taxonomy and etymology This species was first encountered by Alphonse Forrer in the late 19th century ...

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Cinnamon myotis The cinnamon myotis (''Myotis fortidens'') is a species of vesper bat. It is found in Guatemala and Mexico. References

Mouse-eared bats Bats of Central America Bats of Mexico Least concern biota of North America Taxonomy articles create ...

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Hairy-legged myotis The hairy-legged myotis (''Myotis keaysi'') is a species of mouse-eared bat. It is found from southern Tamaulipas in Mexico, through much of Central America and across northern South America as far east as Trinidad. Further south, it is found alo ...

, ''Myotis keaysi'' LC **** Little brown bat, ''Myotis lucifugus'' LC **** Dark-nosed small-footed myotis, ''Myotis melanorhinus'' LC **** Black myotis, ''Myotis nigricans'' LC ****

Arizona myotis The Arizona myotis (''Myotis occultus'') is a vesper bat species inhabiting much of the southwestern United States and central Mexico as far south as the Distrito Federal. Taxonomy and etymology It was described as a new species in 1909 by Amer ...

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Peninsular myotis The peninsular myotis (''Myotis peninsularis'') is a species of vesper bat. It is endemic to northwestern Mexico, found only within Baja California Sur state on the southern Baja California Peninsula. Its habitats include the southern Peninsular ...

, ''Myotis peninsularis'' EN **** Flat-headed myotis, ''Myotis planiceps'' EN ****

Fringed myotis The fringed myotis (''Myotis thysanodes'') is a species of vesper bat that is found in British Columbia, Mexico, and the western United States. Description ''Myotis thysanodes,'' or the fringed myotis, has the shortest ears of the long-eared my ...

, ''Myotis thysanodes'' LC **** Cave myotis, ''Myotis velifer'' LC ****

Fish-eating bat ''Myotis vivesi'', the fish-eating bat or fish-eating myotis, is a species of bat that lives around the Gulf of California, and feeds on fish and crustaceans. It is the largest species of the genus ''Myotis'' in the Americas, and has exceptional ...

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Long-legged myotis The long-legged myotis (''Myotis volans'') is a species of vesper bat that can be found in western Canada, Mexico, and the western United States. Description ''Myotis volans'' is a species of bat found in Order Chiroptera, Family Vespertillion ...

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Yuma myotis The Yuma myotis (''Myotis yumanensis'') is a species of vesper bat native to western North America. Description The Yuma myotis is a relatively small myotis, measuring in head-body length, with an average wingspan of and a weight of about . T ...

, ''Myotis yumanensis'' LC **Subfamily:

Vespertilioninae The Vespertilioninae are a subfamily of vesper bats from the family Vespertilionidae. Classification Subfamily Vespertilioninae *Tribe Antrozoini **Genus '' Antrozous'' *** Pallid bat, ''Antrozous pallidus'' **Genus '' Bauerus'' *** Van Geld ...

***Genus: '' Antrozous'' **** Pallid bat, ''Antrozous pallidus'' LC ***Genus: ''

Bauerus Van Gelder's bat or Van Gelder's big-eared bat (''Bauerus dubiaquercus'') is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Mexico. The species is monotypic within its genus. It is part of ...

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Van Gelder's bat Van Gelder's bat or Van Gelder's big-eared bat (''Bauerus dubiaquercus'') is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Mexico. The species is monotypic within its genus. It is part of ...

, ''Bauerus dubiaquercus'' NT ***Genus: '' Corynorhinus'' ****

Mexican big-eared bat The Mexican big-eared bat (''Corynorhinus mexicanus'') is a species of vesper bat endemic to Mexico. They are nocturnal and insectivorous. Their very large ears are located across their foreheads, and when captured, the bats are observed to curl ...

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Townsend's big-eared bat Townsend's big-eared bat (''Corynorhinus townsendii'') is a species of vesper bat. Description Townsend's big-eared bat is a medium-sized bat (7-12 g)

, ''Corynorhinus townsendii'' LC ***Genus: '' Eptesicus'' ****

Brazilian brown bat The Brazilian brown bat (''Eptesicus brasiliensis''), is a bat species from South and Central America Central America ( es, América Central or ) is a subregion of the Americas. Its boundaries are defined as bordering the United States ...

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Argentine brown bat The Argentine brown bat (''Eptesicus furinalis''), is a bat species from South and Central America. Description The Argentine brown bat is a small to medium sized bat, its dorsal pelage is a cinnamon brown color. Its ventral pelage is a dark bro ...

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Euderma The spotted bat (''Euderma maculatum'') is a species of vesper bat and the only species of the genus ''Euderma''. Description The spotted bat was first described by zoologist Joel Asaph Allen from the American Museum of Natural History in 1891. ...

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Spotted bat The spotted bat (''Euderma maculatum'') is a species of vesper bat and the only species of the genus ''Euderma''. Description The spotted bat was first described by zoologist Joel Asaph Allen from the American Museum of Natural History in 1891. ...

, ''Euderma maculatum'' LC ***Genus: ''

Idionycteris Allen's big-eared bat (''Idionycteris phyllotis'') is a species of vesper bat in the monotypic genus ''Idionycteris''. It occurs in Mexico and in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and ColoradoHayes, M. A., et al. (2009)Allen's big-ea ...

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Allen's big-eared bat Allen's big-eared bat (''Idionycteris phyllotis'') is a species of vesper bat in the monotypic genus ''Idionycteris''. It occurs in Mexico and in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and ColoradoHayes, M. A., et al. (2009)Allen's big-ea ...

, ''Idionycteris phyllotis'' LC ***Genus: ''

Lasiurus ''Lasiurus'' is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae Vespertilionidae is a family of microbats, of the order Chiroptera, flying, insect-eating mammals variously described as the common, vesper, or simple nosed bats. The vespertilio ...

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Desert red bat The western red bat or desert red bat (''Lasiurus frantzii'') is a species of microbat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is found in western North America and Central America. Taxonomy Previously, it was believed to be a subspecies of the ...

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Hoary bat The hoary bat (''Lasiurus cinereus'') is a species of bat in the vesper bat family, Vespertilionidae. It lives throughout most of North America (possibly including Hawaii, although this is disputed). Taxonomy The hoary bat was described as a ...

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Southern yellow bat The southern yellow bat (''Dasypterus ega'') is a species of vesper bat that belongs to suborder microchiroptera (microbat) in the family Vespertilionidae. It is native to South, North and Central America, from the Rio Grande Valley of Texas i ...

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Northern yellow bat The northern yellow bat (''Dasypterus intermedius'') is a non-migratory bat in the family Vespertilionidae, typically active year-round except during abnormally frigid winter weather, during which they will induce torpor. Description The norther ...

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Seminole bat The Seminole bat (''Lasiurus seminolus'') is a species of bat in the family Vespertilionidae. Taxonomy The Seminole bat was first described in 1895 by Samuel N. Rhoads. The holotype had been collected in Tarpon Springs, Florida in 1892 by Wi ...

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Western yellow bat The western yellow bat (''Dasypterus xanthinus'') is a species of vesper bat found in Mexico and the southwestern United States. This species roosts in trees such as ''Populus fremontii'', ''Platanus wrightii'', and ''Quercus arizonica''. If ...

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Nycticeius ''Nycticeius'' is a small genus of bats in the vesper bat family, Vespertilionidae, and the only member of the tribe Nycticeiini. It contains three species, the evening bat (''N. humeralis''), the Cuban evening bat (''N. cubanus'') and '' Nycti ...

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Pipistrellus ''Pipistrellus'' is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae and subfamily Vespertilioninae. The name of the genus is derived from the Italian language, Italian word , meaning "bat" (from Latin "bird of evening, bat"). The size of the ge ...

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Western pipistrelle The canyon bat (''Parastrellus hesperus''), also known as the western pipistrelle, is a species of vesper bat. It is found in Mexico and in the western United States. The species has historically been placed in the genus ''Pipistrellus ''Pip ...

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Rhogeessa ''Rhogeessa'' is a genus of bats within the vesper bats family, Vespertilionidae. Species *Yucatan yellow bat (''R. aeneus'') *Allen's yellow bat (''R. alleni'') * Bickham's little yellow bat (''Rhogeessa bickhami'') * Genoways's yellow bat ('' ...

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Yucatan yellow bat The Yucatan yellow bat (''Rhogeessa aeneus'') is a species of bat found in the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, and possibly also in Belize and Guatemala. These small insectivorous bats forage on flying insects (most likely mosquitoes) at dawn and ...

, ''Rhogeessa aeneus'' LC **** Allen's yellow bat, ''Rhogeessa alleni'' LC ****

Genoways's yellow bat Genoways's yellow bat (''Rhogeessa genowaysi'') is a species of vesper bat found only in Mexico. It is threatened by habitat loss. Due to its imperiled status, it is identified by the Alliance for Zero Extinction as a species in danger of imminent ...

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Slender yellow bat The slender yellow bat (''Rhogeessa gracilis'') is a species of vesper bat. It is found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered ...

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Least yellow bat The least yellow bat (''Rhogeessa mira'') is a species of vesper bat found only in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north ...

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Little yellow bat The little yellow bat (''Rhogeessa parvula'') is a species of vesper bat found only in Mexico. Description One of the smallest vesper bats, adult little yellow bats measure only in total length, with a forearm about long, and weigh just . The ...

, ''Rhogeessa parvula'' LC **** Black-winged little yellow bat, ''Rhogeessa tumida'' LC *Family: Molossidae **Genus: ''

Cynomops ''Cynomops'' is a genus of Central and South American dog-faced bats in the family Molossidae. It has sometimes been considered a subgenus of '' Molossops''. It contains the following species: * Cinnamon dog-faced bat (''C. abrasus'') * Free ...

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Mexican dog-faced bat The Mexican dog-faced bat (''Cynomops mexicanus'') is a bat species of the family Molossidae from Central America. It is found from Nayarit in Mexico to Costa Rica at elevations up to 1500 m. It was formerly considered a subspecies of '' C. gre ...

, ''Cynomops mexicanus'' LC **Genus: ''

Eumops ''Eumops'' (mastiff bats or bonneted bats) is a genus of bat Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera.''cheir'', "hand" and πτερόν''pteron'', "wing". With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true ...

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Black bonneted bat The black bonneted bat, also known as Shaw's mastiff bat, (''Eumops auripendulus''), is a species of bat from the Americas. Description The black-bonneted bat is a medium-sized bat, with adults weighing between . The head and back are covered in ...

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Dwarf bonneted bat The dwarf bonneted bat, or Peters' mastiff bat, (''Eumops bonariensis''), is a bat species from South and Central America. Description As its common name implies, ''E. bonariensis'' is the smallest species of bonneted bat. Adults measure in ...

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Wagner's bonneted bat Wagner's bonneted bat or Wagner's mastiff batBest, T. L., et al. (1997)''Eumops glaucinus''. ''Mammalian Species'' 551, 1-6. (''Eumops glaucinus''), is a species of bat in the family Molossidae. It is found in the Americas from Argentina and Peru ...

, ''Eumops glaucinus'' LC ***

Sanborn's bonneted bat Sanborn's bonneted bat (''Eumops hansae''), is a bat species from South and Central America. It was first described from a specimen collected at Colonia Hansa, Brazil, and is sometimes also known as the Hansa bonneted bat. Description Sanborn's ...

, ''Eumops hansae'' LC *** Western mastiff bat, ''Eumops perotis'' LC ***

Underwood's bonneted bat Underwood's bonneted bat (''Eumops underwoodi'') is a species of bat in the family Molossidae. Description Underwood's bonneted bat is sandy brown in color. It is a large bat with a wingspan of 20-22 inches, making it the second-largest bat foun ...

, ''Eumops underwoodi'' LC **Genus: '' Molossus'' *** Aztec mastiff bat, ''Molossus aztecus'' LC ***

Coiban mastiff bat The Coiban mastiff bat (''Molossus coibensis'') is a species of bat in the family Molossidae. Its range extends from Chiapas in southern Mexico to Mato Grosso in Brazil, including Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica and El Salv ...

, ''Molossus coibensis'' LC ***

Velvety free-tailed bat The velvety free-tailed bat or Pallas's mastiff bat (''Molossus molossus''), is a bat species in the family Molossidae. Description ''M. molossus'' is a medium-sized bat, with a length of and with a wingspan of . This species is brown in color ...

, ''Molossus molossus'' LC *** Miller's mastiff bat, ''Molossus pretiosus'' LC ***

Black mastiff bat The black mastiff bat (''Molossus rufus'') is a bat species. It ranges from the northern region of South America (excluding Chile), most of Central America (excluding Belize) and parts of southern Mexico. Taxonomy The black mastiff bat was ...

, ''Molossus rufus'' LC *** Sinaloan mastiff bat, ''Molossus sinaloae'' LC **Genus: ''

Nyctinomops ''Nyctinomops'' is a genus of bat Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera.''cheir'', "hand" and πτερόν''pteron'', "wing". With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight. Bats ...

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Peale's free-tailed bat Peale's free-tailed bat (''Nyctinomops aurispinosus'') is a bat species from South and Central America Central America ( es, América Central or ) is a subregion of the Americas. Its boundaries are defined as bordering the United States ...

, ''Nyctinomops aurispinosus'' LC ***

Pocketed free-tailed bat The pocketed free-tailed bat (''Nyctinomops femorosaccus'') is a species of bat in the family Molossidae found in Mexico and in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas in the United States. They resemble the Brazilian free-tailed bat (''Tadar ...

, ''Nyctinomops femorosaccus'' LC ***

Broad-eared bat The broad-eared bat or broad-tailed bat (''Nyctinomops laticaudatus'') is a species of free-tailed bat from the Americas. Description The broad-eared bat is a relatively small bat, measuring about in total length, and weighing on average. The ...

, ''Nyctinomops laticaudatus'' LC ***

Big free-tailed bat The big free-tailed bat (''Nyctinomops macrotis'') is a bat species found in the Americas. Taxonomy It was described as a new species in 1839 by British zoologist John Edward Gray. Gray placed it in the now-defunct genus ''Nyctinomus'', with a ...

, ''Nyctinomops macrotis'' LC **Genus: ''

Promops ''Promops'' is a genus of free-tailed bats. Species * ''Promops centralis'' - big crested mastiff bat * ''Promops davisoni'' * ''Promops nasutus'' - brown mastiff bat References

Promops, Molossidae Bat genera Taxa named by Paul Gervai ...

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Big crested mastiff bat The big crested mastiff bat (''Promops centralis''), is a bat species from South and Central America. Taxonomy It was described as a new species in 1915 by British zoologist Oldfield Thomas. The holotype was collected by George F. Gaumer, and p ...

, ''Promops centralis'' LC **Genus: '' Tadarida'' *** Mexican free-tailed bat, ''Tadarida brasiliensis'' LC *Family: Emballonuridae **Genus: '' Balantiopteryx'' *** Thomas's sac-winged bat, ''Balantiopteryx io'' VU *** Gray sac-winged bat, ''Balantiopteryx plicata'' LC **Genus: '' Centronycteris'' *** Thomas's shaggy bat, ''Centronycteris centralis'' LC **Genus: '' Diclidurus'' *** Northern ghost bat, ''Diclidurus albus'' LC **Genus: ''

Peropteryx ''Peropteryx'' is a genus of 5 species of bat in the family Emballonuridae, namely: *Greater dog-like bat (''Peropteryx kappleri'') *White-winged dog-like bat (''Peropteryx leucoptera'') *Lesser dog-like bat (''Peropteryx macrotis'') *Pale-win ...

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Greater dog-like bat The greater dog-like bat (''Peropteryx kappleri'') is a bat species found from southern Mexico through Brazil and Peru. Description It is the largest member of its genus, with a forearm length of . Individuals weigh approximately . Fur color ca ...

, ''Peropteryx kappleri'' LC ***

Lesser doglike bat The lesser dog-like bat (''Peropteryx macrotis''), also known as Peters' sac-winged bat, is a species of bat from South America, South and Central America. First described in 1826, it was renamed in 1843 because the original scientific name was a ...

, ''Peropteryx macrotis'' LC **Genus: ''

Rhynchonycteris The proboscis bat (''Rhynchonycteris naso'') is a species of bat found in South America and Central America. Other common names include Long-nosed proboscis bat, sharp-nosed bat, Brazilian long-nosed bat. and river bat It is the only species in ...

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Proboscis bat The proboscis bat (''Rhynchonycteris naso'') is a species of bat found in South America and Central America. Other common names include Long-nosed proboscis bat, sharp-nosed bat, Brazilian long-nosed bat. and river bat It is the only species i ...

, ''Rhynchonycteris naso'' LC **Genus: ''

Saccopteryx ''Saccopteryx'' is a genus of sac-winged bats from Central and South America. The species within this genus are: * Antioquian sac-winged bat ''Saccopteryx antioquensis'' *Greater sac-winged bat The greater sac-winged bat (''Saccopteryx bilin ...

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Greater sac-winged bat The greater sac-winged bat (''Saccopteryx bilineata'') is a bat of the family Emballonuridae native to Central and South America. They are the most common bats seen in the rainforest, as they often roost on the outside of large trees. They are ...

, ''Saccopteryx bilineata'' LC ***

Lesser sac-winged bat The lesser sac-winged bat or lesser white-lined bat (''Saccopteryx leptura'') is a bat species of the family Emballonuridae from South and Middle America. Description The lesser white-lined bat belongs to the genus ''Saccopteryx''. The bat ...

, ''Saccopteryx leptura'' LC *Family: Mormoopidae **Genus: ''

Mormoops ''Mormoops'' is a genus of bat in the family Mormoopidae. It contains the following species: * Antillean ghost-faced bat (''Mormoops blainvillii'') * Giant ghost-faced bat (†''Mormoops magna'') * Ghost-faced bat The ghost-faced bat (''Morm ...

'' *** Ghost-faced bat, ''Mormoops megalophylla'' LC **Genus: '' Pteronotus'' *** Davy's naked-backed bat, ''Pteronotus davyi'' LC ***

Big naked-backed bat The big naked-backed bat (''Pteronotus gymnonotus''), is a bat species from South America, South and Central America. Taxonomy It was species description, described as a new species in 1843 by German zoologist Johann Andreas Wagner. Wagner plac ...

, ''Pteronotus gymnonotus'' LC *** Parnell's mustached bat, ''Pteronotus parnellii'' LC ***

Wagner's mustached bat Wagner's mustached bat (''Pteronotus personatus'') is a bat species from South and Central America. It is one of the few New World bats species known to perform Doppler shift compensation behavior. Description Wagner's mustached bat is a relati ...

, ''Pteronotus personatus'' LC *Family: Phyllostomidae **Subfamily:

Phyllostominae Phyllostominae is a subfamily of bats that include big-eared, spear-nosed, sword-nosed bats and relatives. List of species *Subfamily: Phyllostominae ** Tribe Micronycterini ***Genus: ''Glyphonycteris'' ****Behn's bat, ''Glyphonycteris behnii'' ...

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Big-eared woolly bat The big-eared woolly bat or (Peters's) woolly false vampire bat (''Chrotopterus auritus'') is a species of bat, belonging to the family Phyllostomidae. The name ''Chrotopterus'' is derived from Greek roots ''ch''ariots (skin, color), and ''pter ...

, ''Chrotopterus auritus'' LC ***Genus: '' Glyphonycteris'' **** Tricolored big-eared bat, ''Glyphonycteris sylvestris'' LC ***Genus: ''

Lampronycteris The yellow-throated big-eared bat or orange-throated bat(''Lampronycteris brachyotis'') is a species of bat that ranges from southern Mexico to Brazil. It is the only species within the genus ''Lampronycteris''. A frugivore and insectivore, it i ...

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Yellow-throated big-eared bat The yellow-throated big-eared bat or orange-throated bat(''Lampronycteris brachyotis'') is a species of bat that ranges from southern Mexico to Brazil. It is the only species within the genus ''Lampronycteris''. A frugivore and insectivore, it i ...

, ''Lampronycteris brachyotis'' LC ***Genus: '' Lonchorhina'' **** Tomes's sword-nosed bat, ''Lonchorhina aurita'' LC ***Genus: '' Lophostoma'' ****

Pygmy round-eared bat The pygmy round-eared bat (''Lophostoma brasiliense'') is a bat species from South America, South and Central America. Description Its ears are large with rounded tips. Its upper lip has several small warts. The fur is dark brown or black in col ...

, ''Lophostoma brasiliense'' LC ****

Davis's round-eared bat Davis's round-eared bat (''Lophostoma evotis'') is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and southeastern Mexico. Description Its ears are long with rounded tips. Its fur is dark gray. Its for ...

, ''Lophostoma evotis'' LC ***Genus: '' Macrophyllum'' ****

Long-legged bat The long-legged bat (''Macrophyllum macrophyllum'') is a member of the Phyllostomidae family in the order Chiroptera. Both males and females of this species are generally small, with wingspans reaching 80mm with an average weight ranging betwee ...

, ''Macrophyllum macrophyllum'' LC ***Genus: '' Macrotus'' **** California leaf-nosed bat, ''Macrotus californicus'' LC **** Waterhouse's leaf-nosed bat, ''Macrotus waterhousii'' LC ***Genus: ''

Micronycteris ''Micronycteris'' is a genus of leaf-nosed bats. List of species Genus ''Micronycteris'' - little big-eared bats * Brosset's big-eared bat, ''Micronycteris brosseti ''Simmons & Voss, 1998 * '' Micronycteris buriri'' Larsen, Siles, Pedersen, & Kw ...

'' **** Common big-eared bat, ''Micronycteris microtis'' LC **** Schmidts's big-eared bat, ''Micronycteris schmidtorum'' LC ***Genus: ''Mimon'' **** Cozumelan golden bat, ''Mimon cozumelae'' LC **** Striped hairy-nosed bat, ''Mimon crenulatum'' LC ***Genus: ''Phylloderma'' **** Pale-faced bat, ''Phylloderma stenops'' LC ***Genus: ''Phyllostomus'' **** Pale spear-nosed bat, ''Phyllostomus discolor'' LC ***Genus: ''Tonatia'' **** Stripe-headed round-eared bat, ''Tonatia saurophila'' LC ***Genus: ''Trachops'' **** Fringe-lipped bat, ''Trachops cirrhosus'' LC ***Genus: ''Trinycteris'' **** Niceforo's big-eared bat, ''Trinycteris nicefori'' LC ***Genus: ''Vampyrum'' **** Spectral bat, ''Vampyrum spectrum'' NT **Subfamily: Glossophaginae ***Genus: ''Anoura'' **** Geoffroy's tailless bat, ''Anoura geoffroyi'' LC ***Genus: ''Choeroniscus'' **** Godman's long-tailed bat, ''Choeroniscus godmani'' LC ***Genus: ''Choeronycteris'' **** Mexican long-tongued bat, ''Choeronycteris mexicana'' NT ***Genus: ''Glossophaga'' **** Commissaris's long-tongued bat, ''Glossophaga commissarisi'' LC **** Gray long-tongued bat, ''Glossophaga leachii'' LC **** Western long-tongued bat, ''Glossophaga morenoi'' LC **** Pallas's long-tongued bat, ''Glossophaga soricina'' LC ***Genus: ''Hylonycteris'' **** Underwood's long-tongued bat, ''Hylonycteris underwoodi'' LC ***Genus: ''Leptonycteris'' **** Greater long-nosed bat, ''Leptonycteris nivalis'' EN **** Lesser long-nosed bat, ''Leptonycteris yerbabuenae'' VU ***Genus: ''Lichonycteris'' **** Dark long-tongued bat, ''Lichonycteris obscura'' LC ***Genus: ''Musonycteris'' **** Banana bat, ''Musonycteris harrisoni'' VU **Subfamily: Carolliinae ***Genus: ''Carollia'' **** Seba's short-tailed bat, ''Carollia perspicillata'' LC **** Sowell's short-tailed bat, ''Carollia sowelli'' LC **** Gray short-tailed bat, ''Carollia subrufa'' LC **Subfamily: Stenodermatinae ***Genus: ''Artibeus'' **** Hairy fruit-eating bat, ''Artibeus hirsutus'' LC **** Jamaican fruit bat, ''Artibeus jamaicensis'' LC **** Great fruit-eating bat, ''Artibeus lituratus'' LC ***Genus: ''Wrinkle-faced bat, Centurio'' **** Wrinkle-faced bat, ''Centurio senex'' LC ***Genus: ''Chiroderma'' **** Salvin's big-eyed bat, ''Chiroderma salvini'' LC **** Hairy big-eyed bat, ''Chiroderma villosum'' LC ***Genus: ''Dermanura'' **** Aztec fruit-eating bat, ''Dermanura azteca'' LC **** Pygmy fruit-eating bat, ''Dermanura phaeotis'' LC **** Toltec fruit-eating bat, ''Dermanura tolteca'' LC **** Thomas's fruit-eating bat, ''Dermanura watsoni'' LC ***Genus: ''Enchisthenes'' **** Velvety fruit-eating bat, ''Enchisthenes hartii'' LC ***Genus: ''Platyrrhinus'' **** Heller's broad-nosed bat, ''Platyrrhinus helleri'' LC ***Genus: ''Sturnira'' **** Little yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira lilium'' LC **** Highland yellow-shouldered bat, ''Sturnira ludovici'' LC ***Genus: ''Uroderma'' **** Tent-making bat, ''Uroderma bilobatum'' LC **** Brown tent-making bat, ''Uroderma magnirostrum'' LC ***Genus: ''Vampyressa'' **** Northern little yellow-eared bat, ''Vampyressa thyone'' LC ***Genus: ''Vampyrodes'' **** Great stripe-faced bat, ''Vampyrodes caraccioli'' LC **Subfamily: Desmodontinae ***Genus: ''Desmodus'' **** Common vampire bat, ''Desmodus rotundus'' LC ***Genus: ''Diaemus'' **** White-winged vampire bat, ''Diaemus youngi'' LC ***Genus: ''Diphylla'' **** Hairy-legged vampire bat, ''Diphylla ecaudata'' LC *Family: Natalidae **Genus: ''Natalus'' *** ''Natalus lanatus'' LC *** Mexican greater funnel-eared bat, ''Natalus mexicanus'' LC *Family: Thyropteridae **Genus: ''Thyroptera'' *** Spix's disk-winged bat, ''Thyroptera tricolor'' LC

Order: Carnivora (carnivorans)

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There are over 260 species of carnivorans, the majority of which feed primarily on meat. They have a characteristic skull shape and dentition. Mexico has more native Mephitidae, mephitids than any other country, with two thirds of extant species being present. Only Costa Rica and Panama have more Procyonidae, procyonid species (one more) than Mexico (it is tied with Colombia in this respect). Large extinct carnivorans that lived in the area prior to the coming of humans include the saber-toothed cat ''Smilodon fatalis'', the scimitar cat ''Homotherium, Homotherium serum'', American lions, American cheetahs, dire wolves and Arctodus, short-faced bears. *Suborder: Feliformia **Family: Felidae (cats) ***Subfamily: Felinae ****Genus: ''Herpailurus'' ***** Jaguarundi, ''H. yagouaroundi'' ****Genus: ''Leopardus'' ***** Ocelot, ''L. pardalis'' ***** Margay, ''L. wiedii'' ****Genus: ''Lynx'' ***** Bobcat, ''L. rufus'' ****Genus: ''Puma (genus), Puma'' ***** Cougar, ''P. concolor'' ***Subfamily: Pantherinae ****Genus: ''Panthera'' ***** Jaguar, ''P. onca'' *Suborder: Caniformia **Family: Canidae (dogs, foxes) ***Genus: ''Canis'' **** Coyote, ''C. latrans'' **** Gray wolf, ''C. lupus'' reintroduced ***** Mexican wolf, ''C. l. baileyi'' reintroduced ***Genus: ''Urocyon'' **** Gray fox, ''U. cinereoargenteus'' ***Genus: ''Vulpes'' **** Kit fox, ''V. macrotis'' **Family: Ursidae (bears) ***Genus: ''Ursus (biology), Ursus'' **** American black bear, ''U. americanus'' **** Brown bear, ''U. arctos'' extirpated ***** California grizzly bear, ''U. a. californicus'' ***** Mexican grizzly bear, ''U. a. horribilis'' **Family: Mephitidae ***Genus: ''Conepatus'' **** American hog-nosed skunk, ''C. leuconotus'' **** Striped hog-nosed skunk, ''C. semistriatus'' ***Genus: ''Mephitis (genus), Mephitis'' **** Hooded skunk, ''M. macroura'' **** Striped skunk, ''M. mephitis'' ***Genus: ''Spilogale'' **** Southern spotted skunk, ''S. angustifrons'' **** Western spotted skunk, ''S. gracilis'' **** Eastern spotted skunk, ''S. putorius'' **** Pygmy spotted skunk, ''S. pygmaea'' **Family: Mustelidae (mustelids) ***Genus: ''Tayra, Eira'' **** Tayra, ''E. barbara'' ***Genus: ''Sea otter, Enhydra'' **** Sea otter, ''E. lutris'' ***Genus: ''Galictis'' **** Greater grison, ''G. vittata'' ***Genus: ''Lontra'' **** North American river otter, ''L. canadensis'' presence uncertain **** Neotropical river otter, ''L. longicaudis'' ***Genus: ''Mustela'' **** Black-footed ferret, ''M. nigripes'' extirpated ***Genus: ''Neogale'' **** Long-tailed weasel, ''N. frenata'' ***Genus: ''Taxidea'' **** American badger, ''T. taxus'' **Family: Procyonidae (raccoons) ***Genus: ''Bassariscus'' **** Ring-tailed cat, Ringtail, ''B. astutus'' **** Cacomistle, ''B. sumichrasti'' ***Genus: ''Nasua'' **** White-nosed coati, ''N. narica'' ***** Cozumel Island coati, ''N. n. nelsoni'' ***Genus: ''Potos'' **** Kinkajou, ''P. flavus'' ***Genus: ''Procyon (genus), Procyon'' **** Common raccoon, ''P. lotor'' ***** Tres Marias raccoon, ''P. l. insularis'' **** Cozumel raccoon, ''P. pygmaeus'' **Clade Pinnipedia (seals, sea lions and walruses) ***Family: Otariidae (eared seals, sea lions) ****Genus: ''Arctocephalus'' ***** Galápagos fur seal, ''A. galapagoensis'' vagrant ***** Guadalupe fur seal, ''A. townsendi'' ****Genus: ''Callorhinus'' ***** Northern fur seal, ''C. ursinus'' ****Genus: ''Zalophus'' ***** California sea lion, ''Z. californianus'' ***Family: Phocidae (earless seals) ****Genus: ''Mirounga'' ***** Northern elephant seal, ''M. angustirostris'' ****Genus: ''Neomonachus'' ***** Caribbean monk seal, ''N. tropicalis'' ****Genus: ''Phoca'' ***** Harbor seal, ''P. vitulina''

Order: Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates)

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The odd-toed ungulates are browsing and grazing mammals. They are usually large to very large, and have relatively simple stomachs and a large middle toe. Tapirids were more widespread before humans appeared, formerly being present in temperate North America as well as the tropical regions they are found in today. Native Equidae, equids once lived in the region, having evolved in North America over Evolution of the horse, a period of 50 million years, but died out around the time of the first arrival of humans, along with at least one ungulate of South American origin, the notoungulate ''Mixotoxodon''. Sequencing of collagen from a fossil of one recently extinct notoungulate has indicated that this order was closer to the perissodactyls than any extant mammal order. *Family: Tapiridae (tapirs) **Genus: ''Tapirus'' *** Baird's tapir, ''T. bairdii''

Order: Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates and cetaceans)

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The even-toed ungulates are ungulates whose weight is borne about equally by the third and fourth toes, rather than mostly or entirely by the third as in perissodactyls. There are about 220 noncetacean artiodactyl species, including many that are of great economic importance to humans. All of Mexico's extant ungulates are of Nearctic realm, Nearctic origin. Prior to the arrival of humans, camelids, which evolved in North America, also lived in the region, as did additional antilocaprids (e.g., ''Capromeryx minor''). *Family: Tayassuidae (peccaries) **Genus: ''Dicotyles'' *** Collared peccary, ''D. tajacu'' **Genus: ''Tayassu'' *** White-lipped peccary, ''T. pecari'' *Family: Cervidae (deer) **Subfamily: Cervinae ***Genus: ''Cervus'' **** Elk, ''C. canadensis'' extirpated ***** Merriam's elk, ''C. c. merriami'' **Subfamily: Capreolinae ***Genus: ''Brocket deer, Mazama'' **** Central American red brocket, ''M. temama'' ***Genus: ''Odocoileus'' **** Mule deer, ''O. hemionus'' **** Yucatan brown brocket, ''O. pandora'' **** White-tailed deer, ''O. virginianus'' *Family: Antilocapridae (pronghorn) **Genus: ''Antilocapra'' *** Pronghorn, ''A. americana'' reintroduced **** Mexican pronghorn, ''A. a. mexicana'' **** Baja California pronghorn, ''A. a. peninsularis'' **** Sonoran pronghorn, ''A. a. sonoriensis'' *Family: Bovidae (cattle, antelope, sheep, goats) **Subfamily: Bovinae ***Genus: ''Bison'' **** American bison, ''B. bison'' reintroduced *****Plains bison, ''B. b. bison'' reintroduced **Subfamily: Caprinae ***Genus: ''Ovis'' **** Bighorn sheep, ''O. canadensis'' ***** Desert bighorn sheep, ''O. c. nelsoni''

Order: Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises)

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Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis) NOAA

Pacific white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens) NOAA

The order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. They are the mammals most fully aquatic adaptation, adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Their closest extant relatives are the Hippopotamidae, hippos, which are artiodactyls, from which cetaceans descended; cetaceans are thus also artiodactyls. Lagoons on the coast of Baja California Sur provide calving grounds for the eastern Pacific population of gray whales. The vaquita of the northern Gulf of California is the world's smallest and The world's 100 most threatened species, most endangered cetacean. *Parvorder: Mysticeti **Family: Balaenopteridae ***Subfamily: Balaenopterinae ****Genus: ''Balaenoptera'' ***** Northern minke whale, ''Balaenoptera acutorostrata'' LC ***** Sei whale, ''Balaenoptera borealis '' EN ***** Bryde's whale, ''Balaenoptera edeni'' DD critically endangered population in Gulf of Mexico ***** Blue whale, ''Balaenoptera musculus'' EN ***** Fin whale, ''Balaenoptera physalus'' ****** Northern fin whale, ''B. p. physalus'' VU ***Subfamily: Megapterinae ****Genus: ''Megaptera'' ***** Humpback whale, ''Megaptera novaeangliae'' LC **Family: Eschrichtiidae ***Genus: ''Eschrichtius'' **** Gray whale, ''Eschrichtius robustus'' LC **Family: Balaenidae ***Genus: ''Eubalaena'' ****North Pacific right whale, ''Eubalaena japonica'' CR extremely rare **** North Atlantic right whale, ''Eubalaena glacialis'' CR possibly seen historically *Parvorder: Odontoceti **Family: Physeteridae (sperm whales) ***Genus: ''Physeter'' **** Sperm whale, ''Physeter macrocephalus'' VU **Family: Kogiidae ***Genus: ''Kogia'' **** Pygmy sperm whale, ''Kogia breviceps'' DD **** Dwarf sperm whale, ''Kogia sima'' DD **Family: Ziphidae ***Genus: ''Ziphius'' **** Cuvier's beaked whale, ''Ziphius cavirostris'' LC ***Genus: ''Berardius'' **** Baird's beaked whale, ''Berardius bairdii'' DD ***Subfamily: Hyperoodontinae ****Genus: ''Indopacetus'' ***** Tropical bottlenose whale, ''Indopacetus pacificus'' DD ****Genus: ''Mesoplodon'' ***** Blainville's beaked whale, ''Mesoplodon densirostris'' DD ***** Gervais' beaked whale, ''Mesoplodon europaeus'' DD ***** Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, ''Mesoplodon ginkgodens'' DD ***** Pygmy beaked whale, ''Mesoplodon peruvianus'' DD **Superfamily: Delphinoidea ***Family: Phocoenidae (porpoises) ****Genus: ''Phocoena'' ***** Vaquita, ''P. sinus'' ****Genus: ''Phocoenoides'' ***** Dall's porpoise, ''Phocoenoides dalli'' LC ***Family: Delphinidae (marine dolphins) ****Genus: ''Rough-toothed dolphin, Steno'' ***** Rough-toothed dolphin, ''Steno bredanensis'' LC ****Genus: ''Tursiops'' ***** Bottlenose dolphin, ''Tursiops truncatus'' LC ****Genus: ''Stenella'' ***** Pantropical spotted dolphin, ''Stenella attenuata'' LC ***** Clymene dolphin, ''Stenella clymene'' DD ***** Striped dolphin, ''Stenella coeruleoalba'' LC ***** Atlantic spotted dolphin, ''Stenella frontalis'' DD ***** Spinner dolphin, ''Stenella longirostris'' DD ****Genus: ''Common dolphin, Delphinus'' ***** Long-beaked common dolphin, ''Delphinus capensis'' DD ***** Short-beaked common dolphin, ''Delphinus delphis'' LC ****Genus: ''Lagenodelphis'' ***** Fraser's dolphin, ''Lagenodelphis hosei'' LC ****Genus: ''Lissodelphis'' ***** Northern right whale dolphin, ''Lissodelphis borealis'' LC ****Genus: ''Sagmatias'' ***** Pacific white-sided dolphin, ''Sagmatias obliquidens'' LC ****Genus: ''Risso's dolphin, Grampus'' ***** Risso's dolphin, ''Grampus griseus'' LC ****Genus: ''Peponocephala'' ***** Melon-headed whale, ''Peponocephala electra'' LC ****Genus: ''Feresa'' ***** Pygmy killer whale, ''Feresa attenuata'' DD ****Genus: ''Pseudorca'' ***** False killer whale, ''Pseudorca crassidens'' DD ****Genus: ''Orcinus'' ***** Orca, ''Orcinus orca'' DD ****Genus: ''Globicephala'' ***** Short-finned pilot whale, ''Globicephala macrorhynchus'' DD

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References

* * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mexico Lists of mammals by country Mammals of Mexico, * Lists of biota of Mexico, Mammals Lists of mammals of North America, Mexico

Subclass: Theria

Infraclass: Metatheria Metatheria is a mammalian clade that includes all mammals more closely related to marsupials than to placentals. First proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1880, it is a more inclusive group than the marsupials; it contains all marsupials as well ...

Order: Didelphimorphia (common opossums)

Infraclass: Eutheria

Order: Sirenia (manatees and dugongs)

Order: Cingulata (armadillos)

Order: Pilosa (anteaters, sloths and tamanduas)

Order: Primates Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys and apes, the latter including huma ...

Order: Rodentia (rodents)

Order: Lagomorpha (lagomorphs)

Order: Eulipotyphla (shrews, hedgehogs, moles, and solenodons)

Order: Chiroptera (bats)

Order: Carnivora (carnivorans)

Order: Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates)

Order: Artiodactyla (even-toed ungulates and cetaceans)

Order: Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises)

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Infraclass:
Metatheria Metatheria is a mammalian clade that includes all mammals more closely related to marsupials than to placentals. First proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1880, it is a more inclusive group than the marsupials; it contains all marsupials as well ...

Order:
Primates Primates are a diverse order of mammals. They are divided into the strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the haplorhines, which include the tarsiers and the simians (monkeys and apes, the latter including huma ...