2025 NC Wildlife Action Plan

Appendix 3 Table 3-6 Mammals

Chapter 3 North Carolina Species

Table 3-6 MAMMALS

2025 WAP Revision SGCN and Other Priority Species

Red Text indicates Taxonomic Updates

Population

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Common Name

Scientific Name

Order

Family

Smoky Shrew

Sorex fumeus

Soricomorpha

Soricidae

X

X

Southern Pygmy Shrew

Sorex hoyi winnemana

Soricomorpha

Soricidae

Dismal Swamp Southeastern Shrew

Sorex longirostris fisheri

Soricomorpha

Soricidae

Southeastern Shrew

Soricomorpha

Soricidae

Sorex longirostris longirostris Sorex palustris punctulatus

Southern Water Shrew

Soricomorpha

Soricidae

X

X

an undescribed Shrew

Sorex sp. 1

Soricomorpha

Soricidae

X

Eastern Spotted Skunk

Spilogale putorius

Carnivora

Mephitidae

H

X

Feral Hog

Sus scrofa

Artiodactyla

Suidae

Y

Eastern Cottontail

Sylvilagus floridanus

Lagomorpha

Leporidae

X

X

X

Appalachian Cottontail

Sylvilagus obscurus

Lagomorpha

Leporidae

M

Marsh Rabbit

Sylvilagus palustris

Lagomorpha

Leporidae

X

X

Dismal Swamp Southern Bog Lemming

Synaptomys cooperi helaletes

Rodentia

Cricetidae

X

Southern Bog Lemming

Synaptomys cooperi stonei

Rodentia

Cricetidae

X

Brazilian Free-tailed Bat

Tadarida brasiliensis

Chiroptera

Molossidae

X

Eastern Chipmunk

Tamias striatus

Rodentia

Sciuridae

X

Red Squirrel

Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

Rodentia

Sciuridae

T

T

X

West Indian Manatee

Trichechus manatus

Sirenia

Trichechidae

X

Gray Fox

Urocyon cinereoargenteus

Carnivora

Canidae

X

American Black Bear

Ursus americanus

Carnivora

Ursidae

X

Red Fox

Vulpes vulpes

Carnivora

Canidae

Y

X

Meadow Jumping Mouse

Zapus hudsonius

Rodentia

Dipodidae

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