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This is a list of North American mammals. It includes all mammals currently found in North America north of Mexico, whether resident or as migrants. It does not include species found only in captivity. Mammal species that went extinct since between 10,000 to 13,000 years are included here. 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; any member of the fauna that died out between 13,000 to present times.
  • (Ex) = Extirpated; no longer occurs in area of interest, but other populations still exist elsewhere.
  • (I) = Introduced population established solely as result of direct or indirect human intervention; synonymous with non-native and non-indigenous.
American Black Bear
Gray Wolf
Jefferson's Ground Sloth
American Beaver

There has been much debate among taxonomists about which races of pocket gopher should be recognized as full species, and the following list cannot be regarded as definitive.

Botta's Pocket Gopher
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Ord's Kangaroo Rat
Eastern Gray Squirrel
Black-tailed Prairie Dog
Woodchuck
Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel
Eastern Chipmunk

There has been much debate among taxonomists about which races of mice and voles should be recognized as full species, and the following list cannot be regarded as definitive.

Meadow Vole
Muskrat
Deer Mouse
Norway Rat
Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Star-nosed Mole
Short-tailed Shrew
Cinerous Shrew
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Big Brown Bat
Indiana Bat
Mexican Long-nosed Bat

Pallid Bat Antrozous pallidus

Ghost-faced Bat Mormoops megalophylla

Red Fox
River Otter
Harbor Seal
A mammoth and a mastodon.
American Bison
Humpback Whale
Killer Whale
Bottlenose Dolphin

See also

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