Mammals
Rank: class
Delaware Biodiversity Project has documented 86 taxa in Class Mammalia spanning 10 orders, 30 families, and 66 genera
NOTE: We are currently adding many species lists to the project. The following taxonomic checklists are complete or nearly so today: Vascular Plants, Liverworts, Birds, Mammals, Reptiles and Amphibians, Butterflies, Dragonflies and Damselflies, Mosquitoes.
NOTE: We are currently adding many species lists to the project. The following taxonomic checklists are complete or nearly so today: Vascular Plants, Liverworts, Birds, Mammals, Reptiles and Amphibians, Butterflies, Dragonflies and Damselflies, Mosquitoes.
Cetaceans and Ungulates
Grazing Mammals
Bison
1
American Bison
Deer
New World Deer
True New World Deer and Caribou
2
White-tailed Deer
Typical Old World Deer
3
Wapiti
4
Sika Deer
Cetaceans
Bowhead and Right Whales
5
North Atlantic Right Whale
Rorqual Whales
6
Common Minke Whale
7
Sei Whale
8
Blue Whale
9
Fin Whale
10
Humpback Whale
Oceanic Dolphins
Long-nosed Dolphins
11
Common Dolphin
12
Striped Dolphin
13
Atlantic Spotted Dolphin
14
Tamanend's Bottlenose Dolphin
15
Common Bottlenose Dolphin
16
Short-finned Pilot Whale
17
Long-finned Pilot Whale
18
Risso's Dolphin
19
Atlantic White-sided Dolphin
20
Orca
21
Rough-toothed Dolphin
Gray Whales
22
Gray Whale
Pygmy and Dwarf Sperm Whales
23
Pygmy Sperm Whale
Porpoises
24
Harbor Porpoise
Sperm Whales
25
Sperm Whale
Beaked Whales
26
North Atlantic Bottlenose Whale
27
Dense-beaked Whale
28
Gulf Stream Beaked Whale
29
True's Beaked Whale
30
Cuvier's Beaked Whale
Carnivores
Canids
31
Coyote
32
Gray Wolf
33
Gray Fox
34
Red Fox
Cats
Small Cats
Palearctic and African Small Cats
35
Domestic Cat
36
Bobcat
37
Cougar
Skunks
True Skunks
38
Striped Skunk
Mustelids
Otters
39
North American River Otter
Weasels
40
Long-tailed Weasel
41
American Mink
Earless Seals
42
Hooded Seal
Gray Seal
43
Atlantic Grey Seal
44
Harp Seal
45
Harbor Seal
Raccoons
46
Raccoon
Bears
47
American Black Bear
Bats
Evening Bats
Mouse-eared Bats
48
Eastern Small-footed Myotis
49
Little Brown Myotis
50
Northern Myotis
51
Evening Bat
52
Tricolored Bat
Vesper Bats
53
Big Brown Bat
54
Silver-haired Bat
Hairy-tailed Bats
Red Bats
55
Eastern Red Bat
56
Hoary Bat
57
Opossums
Opossums
Opossums
Large American Opossums, Mouse Opossums, and Allies
Large New World Opossums
58
Virginia Opossum
Shrews and Moles
Shrews, Moles, and Hedgehogs
Shrews
Red-toothed Shrews
Short-tailed and Small-eared Shrews
59
Norther Short-tailed Shrew
60
North American Least Shrew
61
North American Least Shrew
Long-tailed Shrews
62
Masked Shrew
Moles
New World Moles
Star-nosed Moles
63
Star-nosed Mole
New World Moles
64
Eastern Mole
65
Rabbits
Rabbits
66
Eastern Cottontail
Primates
Monkeys, Apes, and Tarsiers
Great Apes
African Hominids
Ancestral and Modern Humans
67
Human
Rodents
Beavers, Pocket Gophers, and Allies
Beavers
68
American Beaver
Ctenohystricans
Spiny Rats
Echimyines
Terrestrial Spiny Rats and Allies
69
Nutria
Mice, Rats, and Hamsters
Muskrat, Voles, New World Rats, and Allies
Voles, Lemmings, and Muskrats
Microtine Voles
70
Eastern Meadow Vole
71
Woodland Vole
Muskrats
72
Common Muskrat
North American Mice and Rats
73
White-fronted Deermouse
74
Eastern Deermouse
75
Marsh Rice Rat
Old World Mice and Rats
Murines
Typical Old World Mice
76
House Mouse
Typical Old World Rats
77
Brown Rat
78
Black Rat
Jumping Mice
79
Northern Meadow Jumping Mouse
Squirrels, Dormice, and Mountain Beavers
Squirrels
Typical and Flying Squirrels
Flying Squirrels
80
Southern Flying Squirrel
Typical Squirrels
Fox Squirrels and Allies
Fox Squirrel
81
Delmarva Fox Squirrel
82
Eastern Gray Squirrel
83
North American Red Squirrel
Ground and African Tree Squirrels
Holarctic Ground Squirrels
Palearctic Marmots and Groundhogs
84
Woodchuck
Chipmunks
Eastern Chipmunks
85
Eastern Chipmunk
Sea Cows
Manatees
86
West Indian Manatee