Scientific names of Mammals in Iowa

Masked Shrew

Sorex cinereus

Prairie Shrew

Sorex haydeni

Pygmy Shrew

Sorex hoyi

Northern Short-Tailed shrew

Blarina brevicauda

Elliot’s short-tailed shrew

Blarina hylophaga

least shrew

Cryptotis parvus

Eastern mole

Scalopus aquaticus

Little brown bat

Myotis lucifugus

Northern long-eared bat

Myotis septentrionalis

Indiana bat

Myotis sodalis

Silver-haired bat

Lasionycteris noctivagans

tricolored bat

Perimyotis subflavus

big brown bat

Eptesicus fuscus

eastern red bat

Lasiurus borealis

hoary bat

Lasiurus (Aeorestes) cinereus

Evening bat

Nycticeius humeralis

big free-tailed bat (vagrant)

Nyctinomops macrotis

Mexican free-tailed bat (vagrant)

Tadarida brasiliensis

nine-banded armadillo (vagrant)

Dasypus novemcinctus

eastern cottontail

Sylvilagus floridanus

white-tailed jackrabbit

Lepus townsendii

Eastern chipmunk

Tamias striatus

Woodchuck

Marmota monax

Franklin’s ground squirrel

Poliocitellus (Spermophilus) franklinii

Richardson’s ground squirrel

Urocitellus (Spermophilus) richardsonii

Thirteen-lined ground squirrel

Ictidomys (Spermophilus) tridecemlineatus

Virginia opossum

Didelphis virginiana

Eastern gray squirrel

Sciurus carolinensis

Fox squirrel

Sciurus niger

Red squirrel

Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

Southern flying squirrel

Glaucomys volans

plains pocket gopher

Geomys bursarius

plains pocket mouse

Perognathus flavescens

Beaver

Castor canadensis

Marsh rice rat

Oryzomys palustris

Western harvest mouse

Reithrodontomys megalotis

white-footed deermouse

Peromyscus leucopus

North American deermouse

Peromyscus maniculatus

northern grasshopper mouse

Onychomys leucogaster

hispid cotton rat

Sigmodon hispidus

eastern woodrat

Neotoma floridana

southern red-backed vole

Clethrionomys (Myodes) gapperi

southern bog lemming

Synaptomys cooperi

Prairie vole

Microtus ochrogaster

meadow vole

Microtus pennsylvanicus

woodland vole

Microtus pinetorum

Muskrat

Ondatra zibethicus

house mouse

Mus musculus

Norway rat

Rattus norvegicus

meadow jumping mouse

Zapus hudsonius

porcupine

Erethizon dorsatum

coyote

Canis latrans

gray wolf

Canis lupus

swift fox

Vulpes velox

Red fox

Vulpes vulpes

Gray fox

Urocyon cinereoargenteus

Black bear

Ursus americanus

common raccoon

Procyon lotor

Marten

Martes americanus

Fisher

Pekania pennanti

Ermine

Mustela erminea

least weasel

Mustela nivalis

long-tailed weasel

Neogale frenata

American mink

Neogale vison

wolverine

Gulo gulo

badger

Taxidea taxus

river otter

Lontra canadensis

striped skunk

Mephiti mephitis

Spotted skunk

Spilogale putorius

mountain lion

Puma concolor

bobcat

Lynx rufus

Lynx

Lynx canadensis

elk

Cervus elaphus

mule deer

Odocoileus hemionus

white-tailed deer

Odocoileus virginianus

moose

Alces americana

pronghorn

Antilocapra americana

bison

Bos bison