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Pouched ☐ House Mouse2 (Mus musculus) Didelphidae Leporidae (Didelphis virginiana) ☐ Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus) ☐ Meadow Jumping Mouse4 and Moles Gnawing Mammals (Zapus hudsonius) Soricidae Sciuridae Carnivores ☐ Southeastern ( longirostris) ☐ Eastern ( striatus) ☐ Northern Short-tailed Shrew1, 4 ☐ Woodchuck (Marmota monax) ☐ Coyote2 ( latrans) (Blarina brevicauda) ☐ Eastern Gray ☐ Red ( vulpes) ☐ Southern Short-tailed Shrew ( carolinensis) ☐ ( cinereoargenteus) (Blarina carolinensis) ☐ Eastern Ursidae ☐ North American Least Shrew (Sciurus niger)—Extremely Rare ☐ American Black Bear3 (Cryptotis parva) ☐ Southern ( americanus) (Glaucomys volans) (Scalopus aquaticus) ☐ Common ( lotor) ☐ Star-nosed Mole1 (Condylura cristata) ☐ American (Castor canadensis) ☐ North American River Bats 4 Vespertilionidae ☐ Eastern Harvest Mouse (Lontra canadensis) (Reithrodontomys humulis) ☐ Long-tailed (Mustela frenata) ☐ Little Brown Bat (Myotis lucifugus) ☐ Oldfield Deermouse ☐ American (Neovison vison) ☐ Silver-haired Bat (Peromyscus polionotus) (Lasionycteris noctivagans) ☐ White-footed Deermouse ☐ Striped ( mephitis) ☐ Eastern Pipistrelle, Tricolored Bat (Peromyscus leucopus) (Perimyotis subflavus) ☐ Cotton Deermouse1 ☐ ( rufus)—Very Rare ☐ Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus) (Peromyscus gossypinus) ☐ Eastern Red Bat (Lasiurus borealis) Hoofed Mammals ☐ Golden Mouse (Ochrotomys nuttalli) ☐ Seminole Bat1, 3 (Lasiurus seminolis) Suidae ☐ Hispid Cotton (Sigmodon hispidus) ☐ Hoary Bat3 (Lasiurus cinereus) 2 ☐ Meadow Vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus) ☐ (Sus scrofa) ☐ Northern Yellow Bat1, 3 ☐ Woodland Vole (Microtus pinetorum) (Lasiurus intermedius) 4, 5 ☐ Common Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) ☐ American (Bison bison) ☐ Evening Bat (Nycticeius humeralis) Cervidae Molossidae ☐ Roof Rat2 (Rattus rattus) ☐ White-tailed ☐ Mexican Free-tailed Bat ☐ Brown (Norway) Rat2 (Rattus norvegicus) ( virginianus) (Tadarida brasiliensis)

1Species are known only from a historic record. 2Exotic species. Not native to Mecklenburg County. 3Transient species. Not breeding in Mecklenburg County. 4These species are referenced in “A distributional survey of North Carolina mammals” by Lee et. al.,1983. 5The (as well as the Gray , , and possibly ) is believed to be extirpated from the region. However, paleontological evidence is lacking. Taxonomic nomenclature follows: Don E. Wilson and DeeAnn M. Reeder (editors). 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2,142 pp. Available: http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3. NatureServe. 2018. NatureServe Explorer: An online [web application]. Version 7.1. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Or Mammals of North Carolina: Their Distribution and Abundance. Checklist Publication Series: No. 03 © 2018 Mecklenburg County — All Rights Reserved. Photo: White-tailed Deer © Leigh Anne Carter.