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WIS3402 > Mammals by Traits > Flashcards

Mammals by Traits Flashcards

1
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Northern yellow bat

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Yellow color

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Southeastern bat

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Tail fully webbed, white “vampire” incisors

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West Indian Manatee

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Unique skull, homodont

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Bottlenose dolphin

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Long skull, homodont

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Southeastern pocket gopher

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External cheek pockets

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Striped skunk

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Stripe on head, rostrum is compressed but skull/cranial cavity are stretched

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Eastern spotted skunk

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“Marbled” fur, spots on head

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Northern raccoon

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Striped tail, skull has no defining features

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Coyote

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Y-shaped sagittal crest

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Red fox

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V-shaped sagittal crest

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Gray fox

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U-shaped sagittal crest

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Cottontail rabbit

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Bicolor tail, complex “lacy” rostrum and extra “peg” incisors, diastema

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Marsh rabbit

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Brown tail

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14
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American black bear

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Complex lacy rostrum, large skull

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Long-tailed weasel

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Bicolor, black tail tip

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Bobcat

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Spotted legs, huge zygomatic arch for big eyes

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Florida panther

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Big skin

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American Fox Squirrel

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Black cap, white chin, potentially melanistic. Large diastema, orange incisors

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Florida deermouse

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5 plantar pads on the hind feet

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Cotton deermouse

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6 plantar pads on the hind feet

21
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Short-tailed shrew

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Tiny little skull with red tipped teeth, tail longer than least

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Virginia opossum

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50 teeth, defined sagittal crest

23
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American beaver

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Large diastema and orange incisors

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Nutria

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Guard hairs and webbed feet

25
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House mouse

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Tail is equal to or greater than body length

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Marsh rice rat

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Visible ears, super bicolored in body and tail

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Southern flying squirrel

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Skin flaps

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Gray squirrel

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Long body, not melanistic in FL

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Round-tailed muskrat

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Webbed feet, bicolor

30
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Hispid cotton rat

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Rough fur with guard hairs

31
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Eastern woodrat

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Little white feet, tail less than body

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Oldfield deermouse

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Sandy color (found by dunes)

33
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Roof rat

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Tail > body, oldworld

34
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Norway rat

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Tail = body, oldworld

35
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American mink

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Chocolate color with white chin

36
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American river otter

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5 toe pads, chocolate bar. Flat and bulbous cranium

37
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Least shrew

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Tiny, shortest tail

38
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Southern mole

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Digging claws, long rostrum and compressed flat cranium

39
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Woodland vole

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Visible eyes and ears, unlike shrews

40
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Golden mouse

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Golden color

41
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Free-tailed bat

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Webbing does not extend to full length of tail

42
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Nine-banded armadillo

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Obvious in skin and skull

43
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White-tailed deer

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No upper incisors

44
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Feral hog

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Triangle skull, canines that extend into tusks

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