List of mammals of South Carolina facts for kids

This is a list of mammals that are or were in the past native to South Carolina.

• Bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus)
• Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
• Humpback whale (Megaptera novaengliae)
• Minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata)
• Right whale (Eubalaena glacialis)
• Sei Whale (Balaenoptera borealis)

• Bison (Bison bison)

• Coyote (Canis latrans)
• Fox
  • Grey fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)
  • Red fox (Vulpes vulpes)
• Wolf
• Gray wolf (Canis lupus)
• Red wolf (Canis rufus)

• Elk (Cervus elaphus)
• White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

• Nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus)

• Antillean beaked whale (Mesoplodon europaeus)
• Atlantic pilot whale (Globicephala melaena)
• Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontails)
• Common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
• Dense-beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris)
• Grampus (Grampus griseus)
• Pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata)
• Rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanenis)
• Saddleback dolphin (Delphinus delphis)
• Short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrohyncha)
• Spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris)
• Striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba)
• True's beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus)

• Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana)

• Horse (Equus caballus)

• Gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus)

• Bobcat (Lynx rufus)
• Mountain lion (Puma concolor)

• Eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus)
• Marsh rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris)
• New England cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis)
• Swamp rabbit (Sylvilagus aquaticus)

• Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis)

• Black rat (Rattus rattus)
• Cotton mouse (Peromyscus gossypinus)
• Deer mouse (Peromyscuc maniculatus)
• Eastern harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys humulis)
• Eastern woodrat (Neotoma Floridana)
• Golden mouse (Ochrotomys nuttalli)
• Hispid cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus)
• House mouse (Mus musculus)
• Meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus)
• Muskrat (Ondatra zibethiscus)
• Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus)
• Oldfield mouse (Peromyscus polionotus)
• Pine vole (Microtus pinetorum)
• Red-backed vole (Clethrionomys gapperi)
• Rice rat (Oryzomys palustris)
• White-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus)

• Least weasel (Mustela nivalis)
• Long-tailed weasel (Mustela frenata)
• Mink (Mustela vison)
• North American river otter (Lutra canadensis)
• Spotted skunk (Spilogal putorius)
• Striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis)

• Harbor seal (Phoca vitulina)
• Hooded seal (Cystophora cristata)

• Harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)

• Dwarf sperm whale (Kogia simus)
• Pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps)
• Sperm whale (Physeter catodon)

• Raccoon (Procyon lotor)

• Eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus)
• Grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)
• Least shrew (Cryptotis parva)
• Masked shrew (Sorex cinereus)
• Southern short-tailed shrew (Blarina carolinensis)

• American pygmy shrew (Microsorex hoyi)
• Red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus)
• Short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda)
• Smoky shrew (Sorex fumeus)
• Southeastern shrew (Sorex longirostris)
• Southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans)
• Woodchuck (Marmota monax)

• Wild boar (Sus scrofa)

• Eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus)
• Hairy-tailed mole (Parascalops breweri)
• Star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata)

• Manatee (Trichechus manatus)

• Black bear (Ursus americanus)

• Big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus)
• Eastern pipistrelle (Pipistrellus subflavus)
• Eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis)
• Eastern small-footed bat (Myotis leibii)
• Evening bat (Nycticeius humeralis)
• Hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus)
• Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis)
• Little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus)
• Northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis)
• Northern yellow bat (Lasiurus intermedius)
• Rafinesque's big-eared bat (Plecotus rafinesqueii)
• Seminole bat (Lasiurus seminolus)
• Silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans)
• Southeastern myotis (Myotis austroriparius)

• Meadow jumping mouse (Zapus hudsonius)
• Woodland jumping mouse (Napaeozapus insignis)

• Goosebeaked whale (Ziphius carvirostris)