List of mammals of North America

It includes all mammals currently found in the United States, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean region, whether resident or as migrants.

This article does not include species found only in captivity.

Mammal species which became extinct in the last 10,000 to 13,000 years are also included in this article.

Most established introduced species occurring across multiple states and provinces are also noted.

There has been much debate among taxonomists about which races of mice and voles should be recognized as full species, and the following list cannot be regarded as definitive.

IUCN conservation statuses Extinction Extinction Extinct in the wild Critically Endangered Endangered species Vulnerable species Near Threatened Threatened species Least Concern Least Concern
Jefferson's ground sloth
North American beaver
Botta's pocket gopher
Ord's kangaroo rat
Eastern gray squirrel
Black-tailed prairie dog
Woodchuck
Golden-mantled ground squirrel
Eastern chipmunk
Eastern meadow vole
Muskrat
Deer mouse
Cactus mouse
Black-tailed jackrabbit
Star-nosed mole
Short-tailed shrew
Cinerous shrew
Indiana bat
Mexican long-nosed bat
Jaguar
Gray wolf
River otter
Harbor seal
American bison
Killer whales , Orcinus orca
near Unimak Island ,
eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Blue whale , Balaenoptera musculus
Manatee , Trichechus manatus
Crystal River, Florida
Physical reconstruction of a mammoth and a mastodon