List of mammals of Panama

Species assessed using this system are classified as the following instead of near threatened and least concern categories: Didelphimorphia is the order of common opossums of the Western Hemisphere.

They are small to medium-sized marsupials, about the size of a large house cat, with a long snout and prehensile tail.

Their much larger relatives, the pampatheres and glyptodonts, once lived in North and South America but went extinct following the appearance of humans.

The order Primates includes humans and their closest relatives: lemurs, lorisoids, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes.

Shrews and solenodons closely resemble mice, hedgehogs carry spines, while moles are stout-bodied burrowers.

They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater.