Bent's Old Fort NHS
Resource Management Division
Fauna of Bent's Fort
     
Genus and Species Subspecies Common Name
Amphibians and Reptiles    
BUFO WOODHOUSEI Woodhouse's Woodhouse's Toad
BUFO COGNATUS   Great Plains Toad
RANA CATESBEIANA   BULLFROG
AMBYSTOMA TIGRINUM   Barred Tiger Salamander
TERRAPENE ORNATA   Ornate Box Turtle
TRIONYX SPINIFERUS   Western Spiny Softshell Turtle
CROTAPHYTUS COLLARIS Collarris Green Collared Lizard
PHRYNOSOMA   Horned Lizard, Texas or ShortHorned
CNEMIDOPHORUS SEXLINEATUS   Six-lined Racerunner
EUMECES OBSOLETUS   Great Plains Skink
HETERDON NASICUS   Western Hognose Snake
MASTICOPHIS FLAGELLUM   Coachwhip Snake
PITUOPHIS MELANOLEUCUS   Pine-gopher Snake
THAMNOPHIS PROXIMUS Western Western Ribbon Snake
TANTILLA NIGRICEPS   Plains Black-headed Snake
THAMNOPHIS RADIX   Plains Garter Snake
CROTALUS VIRDIS   Prairie Rattlesnake
     
Mammals    
DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA   Virginia Opossum
NOTIOSOREX CRAWFORDI   Desert Shrew
ANTROZOUS PALLIDUS   Pallid Bat
MYOTIS YUMANENSIS Yuma Yuma little brown bat
CANIS LATRANS   Coyote *
VULPES VULPES   Red Fox
VULPES MACROTIS   Swift Fox *
PROCYON LOTOR   Raccoon
TAXIDEA TAXUS   Badger
MEPHITIS MEPHITIS   Striped Skunk
LYNX RUFUS   Bobcat
ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS   Mule Deer *
ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS   White-tailed Deer
CYNOMYS IUDOVICIANUS   Blacktail Prairie Dog
SCIURUS NIGER   Eastern Fox Squirrel
SPERMOPHILUS SPILOSOMA   Spotted Ground Squirrel
SPERMOPPHILUS TRIDEMLINEATUS   Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel
SPERMOPHILUS VARIEGATUS   Rock Squirrel
DIPODOMYS ORDII   Ord's kangaroo rat
NEOTOMA ALBIGULA   White-throated woodrat
ONYCHOMYS LEUCOGASTER   Northern grasshopper mouse
PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS   White-footed mouse
PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS   Deer Mouse
SIGMODON HISPIDUS   Hispid Cotton Rat
CHAETODIPUS HISPIDUS   Hispid Cotton Mouse
CASTOR CANADENSIS   Beaver *
PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS   Deer Mouse
ONDATRA ZIBETHICUS   Muskrat
ERETHIZON DORSATUM   Porcupine
LEPUS CALIFORNICUS   Blacktail Jackrabbit *
SYLVILAGUS AUDUBONI   Desert Cottontail
     
* listed in historical accounts    

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Author: Matt Masten beol_interpretation@nps.gov
Last updated: 6-20-00
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