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KANSAS MAMMALS
Artiodactyla - Even-toed Ungulates
Carnivora - Carnivores
Cingulata - Armadillos
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Didelphimorphia - Opossums
Eulipotyphla - Shrews and Moles
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Rodentia - Rodents
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American Badger (Taxidea taxus)
American Black Bear (Ursus americanus)
Beaver (Castor canadensis)
Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus)
Big Free-tailed Bat (Nyctinomops macrotis)
Bison (Bison bison)
Black Rat (Rattus rattus)
Black-footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes)
Black-tailed Jackrabbit (Lepus californicus)
Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus)
Bobcat (Lynx rufus)
Brazilian free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis)
Brown Bear (Ursus arctos)
Canada Lynx (Lynx canadensis)
Cave Myotis (Myotis velifer)
Cougar (Puma, Mountain Lion) (Puma concolor)
Coyote (Canis latrans)
Coypu (Myocastor coypus)
Crawford's Desert Shrew (Notiosorex crawfordi)
Desert Cottontail (Sylvilagus audubonii)
Eastern Chipmunk (Tamias striatus)
Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus)
Eastern Mole (Scalopus aquaticus)
Eastern Red Bat (Lasiurus borealis)
Eastern Spotted Skunk (Spilogale putorius)
Eastern Woodrat (Neotoma floridana)
Elliot's Short-tailed Shrew (Blarina hylophaga)
Evening Bat (Nycticeius humeralis)
Fox Squirrel (Sciurus niger)
Franklin's Ground Squirrel (Poliocitellus franklinii)
Fulvous Harvest Mouse (Reithrodontomys fulvescens)
Geomys lutescens (Geomys lutescens)
Gray Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)
Gray Myotis (Myotis grisescens)
Gray Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)
Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)
Hispid Cotton Rat (Sigmodon hispidus)
Hispid Pocket Mouse (Chaetodipus hispidus)
Hoary Bat (Lasiurus cinereus)
House Mouse (Mus musculus)
Least Shrew (Cryptotis parvus)
Least Weasel (Mustela nivalis)
Little Brown Myotis (Myotis lucifugus)
Long-tailed Chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera)
Long-tailed Weasel (Mustela frenata)
Marsh Rice Rat (Oryzomys palustris)
Masked Shrew (Sorex cinereus)
Meadow Jumping Mouse (Zapus hudsonius)
Meadow Vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus)
Mink (Neovison vison)
Moose (Alces americanus)
Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus)
Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus)
Nine-banded Armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus)
North American Porcupine (Erethizon dorsatum)
North American River Otter (Lontra canadensis)
Northern Grasshopper Mouse (Onychomys leucogaster)
Northern Myotis (Myotis septentrionalis)
Northern Short-tailed Shrew (Blarina brevicauda)
Norway Rat (Rattus norvegicus)
Ord's Kangaroo Rat (Dipodomys ordii)
Pallid Bat (Antrozous pallidus)
Peromyscus truei (Peromyscus truei)
Plains Harvest Mouse (Reithrodontomys montanus)
Plains Pocket Gopher (Geomys bursarius)
Plains Pocket Mouse (Perognathus flavescens)
Prairie Shrew (Sorex haydeni)
Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster)
Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana)
Raccoon (Procyon lotor)
Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)
Red Squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus)
Ringtail (Bassariscus astutus)
Silky Pocket Mouse (Perognathus flavus)
Silver-haired Bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans)
Southern Bog Lemming (Synaptomys cooperi)
Southern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys volans)
Southern Plains Woodrat (Neotoma micropus)
Spotted Ground Squirrel (Xerospermophilus spilosoma)
Striped Skunk (Mephitis mephitis)
Swamp Rabbit (Sylvilagus aquaticus)
Swift Fox (Vulpes velox)
Texas Mouse (Peromyscus attwateri)
Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus)
Townsend's Big-eared Bat (Corynorhinus townsendii)
Tri-colored Bat (Perimyotis subflavus)
Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana)
Wapiti (Elk) (Cervus elaphus)
Western Deer Mouse (Peromyscus sonoriensis)
Western Harvest Mouse (Reithrodontomys megalotis)
Western Small-footed Myotis (Myotis ciliolabrum)
White-footed Mouse (Peromyscus leucopus)
White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
White-tailed Jackrabbit (Lepus townsendii)
Wild Boar (Sus scrofa)
Woodchuck (Marmota monax)
Woodland Vole (Microtus pinetorum)
Yellow-faced Pocket Gopher (Cratogeomys castanops)
Yuma Myotis (Myotis yumanensis)
The American Badger (
Taxidea taxus
) has been reported from 58 counties in Kansas.
County Name
Number of Occurrences
Anderson
1
Barber
2
Barton
1
Butler
2
Chase
1
Cherokee
1
Comanche
1
Cowley
1
Crawford
1
Decatur
1
Dickinson
2
Douglas
8
Edwards
1
Ellis
11
Ellsworth
1
Finney
1
Gove
5
Graham
1
Gray
1
Greeley
1
Greenwood
2
Hamilton
1
Harper
2
Harvey
1
Haskell
2
Jefferson
2
Jewell
3
Kearney
2
Lane
1
Leavenworth
5
Logan
2
Meade
5
Miami
1
Mitchell
1
Morton
1
Nemaha
1
Ness
3
Norton
1
Osborne
3
Phillips
2
Pratt
2
Rawlins
1
Republic
1
Riley
2
Rooks
2
Rush
2
Russell
2
Saline
5
Shawnee
1
Sheridan
1
Smith
2
Stafford
4
Stanton
1
Sumner
2
Thomas
21
Trego
14
Wallace
3
Woodson
2