Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge -- Mammals
DIDELPHIDAE Virginia Opossum Didelphis virginiana
SORICIDAE Least Shrew Cryptotis parva Desert Shrew Notiosorex crawfordi
TALPIDAE Eastern mole Scalopus aquaticus
PHYLLOSTOMATIDAE Ghost-faced Bat Mormoops megalophylla
VESPERTILIONIDAE Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Eastern Pipistrelle Pipistrellus subflavus Evening Bat Nycticeius humeralis Northern Yellow Bat Lasiurus intermedius Southern Yellow Bat Lasiurus ega Eastern Red Bat Lasiurus borealis Hoary Bat Lasiurus cinereus Pallid Bat Antrozous pallidus Yuma myotis Myotis yumanensis
MOLOSSIDAE Mexican (Brazilian) Free-tailed Bat Tadarida brasiliensis
DASYPODIDAE Nine-banded Armadillo Dasypus novemcinctus
LEPORIDAE Eastern Cottontail Sylvilagus floridanus Desert Cottontail Sylvilagus audubonii Black-tailed Jackrabbit Lepus californicus
SCIURIDAE Mexican Ground Squirrel Spermophilus mexicanus Spotted Ground Squirrel Spermophilus spilosoma †Fox Squirrel Sciurus niger
HETEROMYIDAE Silky Pocket Mouse Perognathus flavus Hispid Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus hispidus Ord Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys ordii South Texas (Gulf Coast) Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys compactus Mexican Spiny Pocket Mouse Liomys irroratus
CASTORIDAE Beaver Castor canadensis
MURIDAE Coues' Rice Rat Oryzomys couesi Marsh Rice Rat Oryzomys palustris Fulvous Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys fulvous White-footed Mouse Peromyscus leucopus Northern Pygmy Mouse Baiomys taylori Northern Grasshopper Mouse Onychomys leucogaster Hispid Cotton Rat Sigmodon hispidus South Plains Wood Rat Neotoma micropus †Black Rat Rattus rattus †Norway Rat Rattus norvegicus †House Mouse Mus musculus
CAPROMYIDAE †Nutria Myocastor coypus
CANIDAE Coyote Canis latrans Gray Fox Urocyon cinereoargenteus
PROCYONIDAE Raccoon Procyon lotor White-nosed coati Nasua narica
MUSTELIDAE Long-tailed Weasel Mustela frenata Badger Taxidea taxus Eastern Spotted Skunk Spilogale putorius Striped Skunk Mephitis mephitis
FELIDAE Mountain Lion Felis concolor Ocelot Leopardus pardalis Gulf Coast jaguarundi Herpailurus yagouaroundi cacomitli Bobcat Felis rufus
SUIDAE †Feral Hog Sus scrofa
TAYASSUIDAE Collared Peccary Tayassu tajacu
CERVIDAE White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus
BOVIDAE †Nilgai Boselaphus tragocamelus
† - Introduced or Exotic Species