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This is a list of North American mammals. It includes all mammals currently found in the United States, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean region, whether resident or as migrants. This article does not include species found only in captivity.
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 tail. Family: Didelphidae (American opossums)
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]
The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States and appears on its Great Seal.The bald eagle's range includes all of the contiguous United States and Alaska.. The fauna of the United States of America is all the animals living in the Continental United States and its surrounding seas and islands, the Hawaiian Archipelago, Alaska in the Arctic, and several island-territories in the ...
Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million in total. Animals range in size from 8.5 millionths of a metre to 33.6 metres (110 ft) long and have complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs .
Lists of reptiles of North America (2 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Lists of animals of North America" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Genus Herpailurus – Saint-Hilaire, 1803 – one species Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population [a] Jaguarundi. H. yagouaroundi (Saint-Hilaire, 1803) Most of South and Central America: Size: 49–78 cm (19–31 in) long, 28–59 cm (11–23 in) tail [49]
Scientific and Common Names of the Reptiles and Amphibians of North America – Explained, Ellin Beltz, 2006 "SSAR North American Species Names Database". Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. The Reptile Database, Uetz, P. and Jirí Hošek (eds.) US Fish & Wildlife Service – Species Search, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service