List of fauna of Oregon facts for kids

This is a list of species of fauna (animals) that have been observed in the U.S. state of Oregon.

Amphibians

Caudata

• Oregon slender salamander

Reptiles

Serpentes

• California mountain kingsnake - Native to Oregon
• Common garter snake - Native to Oregon.
• Common kingsnake Native to Oregon
• Gopher snake - Native to Oregon
• Ground snake - Owyhee River
• Night snake - Native to Oregon
• Northwestern garter snake - Native to Oregon
• Pacific rattlesnake- Native to Oregon
• Racer - Native to Oregon
• Ringneck snake - Native to Oregon
• Rubber boa - Native to Oregon
• Sharptail snake - Native to Oregon
• Striped whipsnake - Native to Oregon
• Western rattlesnake - Found in Eastern Oregon
• Western terrestrial garter snake - Native to Oregon

Testudines

• Snapping turtle - Introduced into Oregon.
• Western painted turtle - Native to Oregon.

Annelids

Haplotaxida

• Oregon giant earthworm

Birds

• List of birds of Oregon

Crustaceans

Notostraca

• Branchinecta lynchi - Also in California.
• Lepidurus packardi - Mostly Californian, but found in Jackson County, Oregon as well.

Fish

Cypriniformes

• Warner sucker - Also in California, Arizona, and Nevada.
• Shortnose sucker - Also in California.
• Lost River sucker - Also in California.
• Modoc sucker - Also in California.

Acipenseriformes

• Green sturgeon - Rogue River in Oregon.
• White sturgeon - Umpqua River in Oregon.

Lamniformes

• Common thresher - Oregon coast.
• Great white shark - Oregon coast.
• Basking shark - Oregon coast.

Rajiformes

• Broad skate - Oregon coast.
• Fine-spined skate - Oregon coast.
• Pacific white skate - Oregon coast.
• Roughtail skate - Oregon coast.
• Deepsea skate - Oregon coast.
• Sandpaper skate - Oregon coast.

Perciformes

• Calico surfperch - Oregon coast.

Carcharhiniformes

• Brown catshark - Oregon coast.

Scorpaeniformes

• Mosshead sculpin - Oregon coast.
• Pit sculpin - Goose lake, Drews creek, and Thomas Creeks.
• Prickly sculpin - River drainages

Petromyzontidae

• Pacific lamprey - Native to Oregon
• Lampetra ayresii - Native to Oregon
• Western brook lamprey - Native to Oregon

Insects

Odonata

• Canada darner - Native to Oregon and common across America.
• Paddle-tailed darner - Native to Oregon and common across America.
• Shadow darner - Native to Oregon and common across America.
• Common green darner - Native to Oregon and common across America.
• Sooty dancer - Native to Oregon.
• Paiute dancer - Native to Oregon.
• River jewelwing - Native to Oregon and common across America.
• Taiga bluet - Native to Oregon and common across America.

Orthoptera

• Jerusalem cricket - Found in Central and Eastern Oregon in the desert regions.

Hymenoptera

• Franklin's bumble bee - Found in Southern Oregon.

Mammals

Rodentia

• Baird's shrew - Endemic to northwest Oregon.
• Camas pocket gopher - occurs only in the Willamette Valley, endemic to northwest Oregon in the Northwestern United States.
• Fog shrew - Also can be found in northern California.
• Gray-tailed vole - Endemic to Oregon.
• Pacific shrew - Endemic to western Oregon.
• White-tailed antelope squirrel - Found in central, eastern, and south-eastern Oregon, the desert regions.
• Mountain beaver - Found in Western Oregon.
• California kangaroo rat - Found in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Oregon.
• Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat - Found in South Eastern Oregon.
• Ord's kangaroo rat - Found in Eastern Central Oregon.

Chiroptera

• Pallid bat - Native to Oregon and common in the western United States.

Cetartiodactyla

• American bison - Regionally extinct.

Lagomorpha

• Pygmy rabbit - North Eastern Oregon.