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This list of mammals in Pennsylvania consists of 66 species currently believed to occur wild in the state. This excludes feral domesticated species such as feral cats and dogs . Several species recently lived wild in Pennsylvania, but are now extirpated (locally, but not globally, extinct).
Three-toed box turtle (Terrapene triunguis) - seen near Philadelphia and Allentown [10] Ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata) - two records of escaped pets from southeast Pennsylvania [11] Chinese softshell turtle - an adult was found in the Delaware River. This species is present in New York City and has potential to become an invasive species ...
Bouteloua dactyloides, commonly known as buffalograss or buffalo grass, is a North American prairie grass native to Canada, Mexico, and the United States. It is a short grass found mainly on the High Plains and is co-dominant with blue grama (B. gracilis) over most of the shortgrass prairie.
Due to its semiarid climate, the shortgrass prairie receives on average less precipitation than that of the tall and mixed grass prairies to the east. [ 1 ] Lying largely in the rain shadow of the mountains to the west, the prairie includes lands in the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains and extends east as far as Nebraska and north into ...
The Allegheny Highlands forests are a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion located in a large part of the Allegheny Plateau physiographic province, including both unglaciated and glaciated portions, in Pennsylvania and New York within North America, [2] as defined by the World Wildlife Fund.
List of reptiles of Pennsylvania This page was last edited on 17 May 2022, at 01:30 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
This is a list of amphibians of Pennsylvania as listed by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. [1] Notes on ranges provided by Pennsylvania Amphibian & Reptile Survey . [ 2 ] Pennsylvania has 41 native species of amphibians, with 23 salamanders and newts, and 18 species of frogs and toads.
According to Theodore Roosevelt:. We have taken into our language the word prairie, because when our backwoodsmen first reached the land [in the Midwest] and saw the great natural meadows of long grass—sights unknown to the gloomy forests wherein they had always dwelt—they knew not what to call them, and borrowed the term already in use among the French inhabitants.