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Mammals introduced and extinct in the Holocene except Pleistocene/Holocene boundary are included. According to the IUCN Red List 3 of these species are critically endangered , 20 endangered , 15 vulnerable , 20 near threatened and 4 extinct .
Each species is listed, with its binomial name. Most established introduced species occurring across multiple states and provinces are also noted. Some species are identified as indicated below: (A) = Accidental: occurrence based on one or a few records, and unlikely to occur regularly (E) = Extinct: died out between 13,000 years ago and the ...
Mammals of Mexico (5 C, 88 P) P. Pinnipeds of North America (1 C, 18 P) ... American ermine; American red fox; Arctic fox; Arctic hare; B. American black bear; Beluga ...
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners. [1]
This category is for articles which discuss the use of a common (vernacular) name shared by multiple species of mammals which do not correspond to a taxon. Pages in category "Mammal common names" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...
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The American bison (Bison bison) is a North American species of bison, also commonly known as the American buffalo. These bison once roamed the grasslands of North America in massive herds ; their range roughly formed a triangle between the Great Bear Lake in Canada's far northwest, south to the Mexican states of Durango and Nuevo León , and ...