Mammals

Mammals of Appomattox Court House NHP

Common name

Scientific name

Notes

Order Artiodactyla: Deer

White-tailed deer

Odocoileus virginianus

 

Order Carnivora: Predatory mammals

Black bear

Ursus americanus

 

Bobcat

Lynx rufus

 

Coyote

Canis latrans

 

Common gray fox

Urocyon cinereoargenteus

 

Red fox

Vulpes vulpes

 

Common raccoon

Procyon lotor

 

Striped skunk

Mephitis mephitis

 

American mink

Mustela vison

 

Long-tailed weasel

Mustela frenata

 

Least weasel

Mustela nivalis


Order Chiroptera: Bats

Little brown myotis

Myotis lucifugus

 

Northern myotis

Myotis septentrionalis

 

Silver-haired bat

Lasionycteris noctivagans

 

Eastern pipistrelle

Pipistrellus subflavus

 

Big brown bat

Eptesicus fuscus

 

Eastern red bat

Lasiurus borealis

 

Hoary bat

Lasiurus cinereus

 

Order Didelphimorphia: Marsupials

Virginia opossum

Didelphis virginiana

 

Order Insectivora: Shrews & Moles

Pygmy shrew

Sorex hoyi

 

Southeastern shrew

Sorex longirostris

 

Northern short-tailed shrew

Blarina brevicauda

 

Least shrew

Cryptotis parva

 

Eastern mole

Scalopus aquaticus

 

Star-nosed mole

Condylura cristata

 

Order Lagomorpha: Rabbits

Eastern cottontail

Sylvilagus floridanus

 

Order Rodentia: Rodents

American beaver

Castor canadensis

 

Woodchuck (groundhog)

Marmota monax

 

Common Muskrat

Ondatra zibethicus

 

Eastern gray squirrel

Sciurus carolinensis

 

Eastern fox squirrel

Sciurus niger

 

Southern flying squirrel

Glaucomys volans

 

Red squirrel

Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

 

Eastern chipmunk

Tamias striatus

 

Hispid cotton rat

Sigmodon hisidus

 

Alleghany woodrat

Neotoma magister

 

Eastern harvest mouse

Reithrodontomys humulis

 

White-footed mouse

Peromyscus leucopus

 

Golden mouse

Ochrotomys nuttalli

 

Meadow jumping mouse

Zapus hudsonius

 

Meadow vole

Microtus pennsylvanicus

 

Woodland vole

Microtus pinetorum

 

Southern red-backed vole

Clethrionomys gapperi

 


 

Did You Know?

Appomattox Parole - Appomattox Court House National Historical Park

On April 10, 1865 Generals Lee and Grant met a second time at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. At that second meeting General Lee requested that his men be given evidence that they were paroled prisoners - to protect them from arrest or harassment. 28,231 parole passes were issued to Confederates.