LIST OF MAMMALS
OF THE WETLANDS CENTER PREMISES AND GALVESTON ISLAND
IN PHYLOGENETIC ORDER BY ORDER
This list was compiled from several resources including taxonomy and phylogeny
from the American Society of Mammalogists, The Non-volant Mammals of the
Galveston Bay Region, Texas (Hice and Schmidly, 1999), and The Mammals of
Texas - Online Edition (http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/txmammal.htm).
Order Didelphimorphia - opossums
Virginia opossum - Didelphis virginiana
Order Chiroptera - bats
eastern pipistrelle - Pipistrellus subflavus
big brown bat - Eptesicus fuscus
silver-haired bat - Lasionycteris noctivagans
eastern red bat - Lasiurus borealis
hoary bat - Lasiurus cinereus
northern yellow bat - Lasiurus intermedius
seminole bat - Lasiurus seminolus
evening bat - Nycticeius humeralis
Brazilian free-tailed bat - Tadarida brasiliensis
Order Xenarthra - armadillos
nine-banded armadillo - Dasyppus novemcinctus
Order Lagomorpha - hares and rabbits
eastern cottontail - Sylvilagus floridanus
Order Rodentia - rodents
eastern fox squirrel - Sciurus niger
house mouse - Mus musculus
marsh rice rat - Oryzomys palustris
Norway rat - Rattus norvegicus
roof rat - Rattus rattus
hispid cotton rat - Sigmodon hispidus
nutria - Myocastor coypus
Order Carnivora - carnivores
coyote - Canis latrans
common raccoon - Procyon lotor
bobcat - Lynx rufus
Order Artiodactyla - even-toed ungulates
feral pig - Sus scrofa
Order Sirenia
West Indian manatee - Trichechus manatus
Order Cetacea
bottlenose dolphin - Tursiops truncatus