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Dolphin, state saltwater mammal; [1] Florida panther, state animal; [2] and manatee, state marine mammal [1] One hundred sixteen species of mammals are known to inhabit, or have recently inhabited, the American state of Florida and its surrounding waters.
A state mammal is the official mammal of a U.S. state as designated by a state's legislature. The first column of the table is for those denoted as the state mammal, and the second shows the state marine mammals. Animals with more specific designations are also listed.
Florida once had a large number of species that formerly occupied the state in prehistoric and historic times, but became locally extinct or extirpated; such as the Florida short-faced bear, Florida black wolf, Dire wolf, Dexteria floridana, Florida bog lemming, Long-nosed peccary, Caribbean monk seal, Carolina parakeet, Great auk, Passenger ...
Recovery efforts are currently underway in Florida to conserve the state's remaining population of native panthers. This is a difficult task, as the panther requires contiguous areas of habitat – each breeding unit, consisting of one male and two to five females, requires about 200 square miles (500 km 2 ) of habitat. [ 50 ]
[6] [24] The loggerhead sea turtle was named by South Carolina as state reptile, while Florida chose it as state saltwater reptile. [nb 13] [14] [45] Florida also named an official tortoise, the gopher tortoise, the same animal as Georgia's state reptile. [12] [16] [17] Four genera are represented with different species in the list.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... List of mammals of Florida; G. List of mammals of Georgia (U.S. state) Mammals of Glacier National Park (U.S.)
†Alligator olseni – type locality for species; Alnus; Alosa; Alveopora; Amauropsis – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature †Ambystoma †Ambystoma tigrinum; Life restoration of the Miocene elephant relative Amebelodon. Margret Flinsch (1932). †Amebelodon; Americardia †Americardia media ...
Florida black bears live mainly in forested habitats, and are common in sand-pine scrub, oak scrub, upland hardwood forests and forested wetlands. [16] Black bears in South Florida are the only American black bear subspecies to live in a subtropical region. To a lesser extent, it also inhabits dry prairie and tropical hammock. [6]