Mammalia, Mammals

Mammals

Don Linzey & Christy Brecht
Wytheville Community College
Wytheville, Virginia

John Pickering
University of Georgia, Athens

Checklist - North American species

IDnature Guide - North American species

Kinds, Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Photographs

Phylogeny

Links to other sites

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Last updated: 29 July, 2005

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Kinds, Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Kinds Common Names
Bovidae bison
Canidae wolves, foxes
Castoridae beavers
Cervidae deer
Didelphidae opossum
Dipodidae jumping mice
Felidae cats
Leporidae rabbits, hares
Mephitidae skunks
Muridae murid rats, mice
Mustelidae otters, weasels, mink
Procyonidae raccoons
Sciuridae woodchuck, chipmunk, squirrels
Soricidae shrews
Suidae pigs
Talpidae moles
Ursidae bears
Vespertilionidae bats

Photographs

Calphotos -- over 5,000 images of animals, primarily Californian species

Fotogalleri pattedyr -- images of European species

Phylogeny

Scientific Name -- Common Name
Chordata -- Chordates
Mammalia -- Mammals
Eutheria -- placental mammals
Artiodactyla -- even-toed ungulates
Carnivora -- carnivores
Cetacea -- dolphins, porpoises, and whales
Chiroptera -- bats
Dermoptera -- flying lemurs
Hyracoidea -- hyraxes
Insectivora -- insectivores
Lagomorpha -- hares, pikas, and rabbits
Macroscelidea -- elephant shrews
Perissodactyla -- horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs
Pholidota -- pangolins
Primates -- primates
Proboscidea -- elephants
Rodentia -- rodents
Scandentia -- tree shrews
Sirenia -- dugings, manatees, and sea cows
Tubulidentata -- aardvark
Xenarthra -- edentates

Metatheria -- marsupials
Dasyuromorphia -- dasyuroid marsupials and marsupial carnivores
Didelphimorphia -- American marsupials
Diprotodontia -- kangaroos, possums, wallabies, and relatives
Microbiotheria -- monito del monte
Notoryctemorphia -- marsupial moles
Paucituberculata -- shrew oppossums
Peramelemorphia -- bandicoots and bilbies

Prototheria -- egg-laying mammals
Monotremata -- monotremes

Links to Other Sites

Smithsonian Institution's Mammal Species of the World -- names of 4,629 mammals
North American Mammals, Smithsonian Institution
University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology
Checklist of North American Mammals North of Mexico, 1997, Texas Tech University
Tanzanian Mammal Key, Chicago Field Museum

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