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Mammal Appearances (old) Flashcards

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Higher taxonomy

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Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata, Subphylum Vertebrata, Class Mammalia

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Nine-Banded Armadillo

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Easily recognizable in skin and skull

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Virginia opossum

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Possesses thumbs on rear feet, skull has 50 teeth and a pronounced sagittal crest

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Short-tailed shrew

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possesses a longer tail than the other shrew. red tipped teeth

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Least shrew

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smaller than short-tailed, but may be used to trick you. remember, short-tailed shrew TAIL is LONGER. red tipped teeth

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Southern mole

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skin is recognizable by claws. skull has small zygomatic arch, long rostrum, bulbous cranium

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Northern yellow bat

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yellow colored skin. white vampire incisors

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Free-tailed bat

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webbing stretches partial length of tail. white vampire incisors

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Marsh rabbit

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brown tail

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Cottontail rabbit

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bicolor tail with white on bottom

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Gray squirrel

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thin body, not melanistic in fl

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Eastern fox squirrel

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black cap, white nose, melanistic. 4 foot pads

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Southern flying squirrel

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skin flaps

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Southeastern pocket gopher

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Oldfield deermouse

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Cotton deermouse

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Florida deermouse

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Golden mouse

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Marsh rice rat

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Woodland vole

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Hispid cotton rat

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Eastern wood rat

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Round-tailed muskrat

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House mouse

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Roof rat

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Norway rat

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American Beaver

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Nutria

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Red fox

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Gray fox

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Coyote

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Northern raccoon

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American black bear

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Long-tailed weasel

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American mink

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Northern river otter

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Striped skunk

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Eastern spotted skunk

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Bobcat

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Florida panther

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White-tailed deer

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Feral hog

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West Indian Manatee

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44
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Bottlenose dolphin

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45
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southeastern bat

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webbing stretches entire length of tail. look for white incisors pointing out, like a vampire

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