Mammal Species List Salt Plains NWR

Group Common Name Scientific Name Occurence Opossums Virginia Opossum Didelphis virginiana Common Moles and Shrews Least Shrew Cryptotis parva Uncommon Desert Shrew Notiosorex crawfordi Uncommon Eastern Mole Scalopus aquaticus Uncommon Bats Little Brown Bat Myotis lucifugus Possible Cave Myotis Myotis velifer Common Silver-haired Bat Lasionycteris Uncommon noctivagans Eastern Pipistrelle Pipistellus subflavus Uncommon Big Brown Bat Eptesicus fuscus Uncommon Eastern Red Bat Lasiurus borealis Uncommon Hoary Bat Lasiurus cinereus Uncommon Pallid Bat Antrozous pallidus Uncommon Northern Long-eared Myotis septentrionalis Possible Bat Evening Bat Nycticeius humeralis Possible Brazilian Free-tailed Tadarida brasiliensis Common Bat Armadillo Nine-banded Dasyppus Common Armadillo novemcinctus Rabbits and Hares Eastern Cottontail Sylvilagus floridanus Common Black-tailed Lepus californicus Uncommon Jackrabbit Squirrels and Thirteen-lined Ground Spermophilus Common Chipmunks Squirrel tridecemlineatus Black-tailed Prairie Cynomys ludovicianus Uncommon Dog Eastern Fox Squirrel Sciurus niger Common Pocket Gophers Plains Pocket Gopher Geomys bursarius Common Pocket Mice and Plains Pocket Mouse Perognathus Possible Kangaroo Rats flavescens Silky Pocket Mouse Perognathus flavus Common Hispid Pocket Mouse Chaetodipus hispidus Common Ord’s Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys ordii Common Beavers American Beaver Castor canidensis Common

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Mice and Rats Western Harvest Reithrodontomys Possible Mouse megalotis Plains Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys Common montanus White-footed Mouse Peromyscus leucopus Common Deer Mouse Peromyscus Common maniculatus Northern Grasshopper Onychomys Uncommon Mouse leucogaster Hispid Cotton Rat Sigmodon hispidus Common Southern Plains Neotoma micropus Common Woodrat Prairie Vole Microtus ochrogaster Uncommon Common Muskrat Ondantra zibethicus Common Norway Rat Rattus norvegicus Common House Mouse Mus musculus Common New World Porcupine Erethizon dorsatum Uncommon Porcupines Canids Coyote Canis latrans Common Gray Wolf Canis lupus Historic Red Fox Vulpes vulpes Uncommon Gray Fox Urocyon Common cineroeargenteus Bears Black Bear Ursus americanus Historic Brown Bear Ursus arctos Historic Raccoons and Common Raccoon Procyon lotor Common Ringtails Ringtail Bassariscus astutus Possible Mustelids Long-tailed Weasel Mustela frenata Uncommon Black-footed Ferret Mustela nigripes Historic Mink Mustela vison Uncommon American Badger Taxidea taxus Common Eastern Spotted Spilogale putorius Uncommon Skunk Striped Skunk Mephitis mephitis Common River Otter Lutra canadensis Historic Cats Mountain Lion Felis concolor Uncommon

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Bobcat Lunx rufus Common Cervids Elk Cervus elaphus Historic Mule Deer Odocoileus hemionus Possible White-tailed Deer Odocoileus Common virginianus Pronghorn Pronghorn Antilocapra Historic americana Bovidae Bison Bison bison Historic

Occurrence: Records of species presence and possible distributions were obtained either by inventory efforts of Refuge personnel, Oklahoma Biological Survey records, American Society of Mammalogists records, and/or “Bats of the United States” by Michael J. Harvey, J. Scott Altenbach, and Troy L. Best.

Common - Species are often seen and are abundant in numbers on the Refuge.

Uncommon - Species are not often seen but may be present in fair numbers on the Refuge. Species may also be difficult to find due to behavior or size.

Possible - Species have been recorded within Alfalfa County, but have not been found on the Refuge during inventory efforts.

Historic - Species were once found at Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge and/or the surrounding county, Alfalfa, but are no longer present.

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