MAMMALS

This page provides links to a notable records and accounts of mammal species as well any posts centered on a particular species.

Contents:
A full list of orders is shown below but there is content only for those shown with bold links:

  1. MONOTREMATA (Egg-laying Mammals)
  2. PAUCITUBERCULATA (Shrew Opossums)
  3. DIDELPHIMORPHIA (American Opossums)
  4. MICROBIOTHERIA (Monito del Montes)
  5. DIPROTODONTIA (Kangaroos, Possums, and relatives)
  6. NOTORYCTEMORPHIA (Marsupial Moles)
  7. PERAMELEMORPHIA (Bandicoots and Bilby)
  8. DASYUROMORPHIA (Carniverous Marsupials)
  9. CINGULATA (Armoured New World Placental Mammals)
  10. PILOSA (Anteaters and Sloths)
  11. TUBULIDENTATA (Aardvaarks)
  12. AFROSORICIDA (Golden-moles and Tenrecs)
  13. MACROSCELIDEA (Elephant-shrews)
  14. HYRACOIDEA (Hyraxes)
  15. PROBOSCIDEA (Elephants)
  16. SIRENIA (Dugongs and Manatees)
  17. EULIPOTYPHLA (Hedgehogs, Solenodons, Moles, True Shrews and relatives)
  18. CHIROPTERA (Bats)
  19. PHOLIDOTA (Pangolins)
  20. CARNIVORA (Carnivores)
  21. PERISSODACTYLA (Odd-toed Ungulates)
  22. CETARTIODACTYLA (Even-toed Ungulates and Cetaceans)
  23. LAGOMORPHA (Rabbits, Hares and Pikas)
  24. RODENTIA (Rodents)
  25. SCANDENTIA (Treeshrews)
  26. DERMOPTERA (Colugos)
  27. PRIMATES (Primates)

3. DIDELPHIMORPHIA (American Opossums)
Alston’s Woolly Mouse Opossum (Marmosa alstoni) at Boquete (Panama), 2022. First confirmed record in Panama?

16. SIRENIA (Dugongs and Manatees)
Dugong (Dugong dugon) records at Uluwatu Beach (Bali, Indonesia).

18. CHIROPTERA (Bats)
Geoffroy’s Rousette (Rousettus amplexicaudatus) colony at Pura Goa Lawah (Bali, Indonesia).

20. CARNIVORA (Carnivores)
Marbled Cat (Pardofelis marmorata). High elevation record at Mount Kinabalu (Sabah, Malaysia). Also published in CAT News.
Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus) at Modrudalur (Iceland), 2020. At a well-protected site with a highly habituated group.

22. CETARTIODACTYLA (Even-toed Ungulates and Cetaceans)
Bryde’s Whale (Balaenoptera brydei): sightings in False Bay (South Africa).

23. LAGOMORPHA (Rabbits, Hares and Pikas)
Pygmy Rabbit (Sylvilagus idahoensis) near Bannack State Park (Montana, USA), 2013.

24. RODENTIA (Rodents)
Streaked Dwarf Porcupine (Coendou ichillus): first published site records in northeastern Peru (2023).
Whiskered Flying Squirrel (Petinomys genibarbis), Kinabalu Park, Sabah (Borneo, Malaysia), 2016. First photographs in the wild.
Humboldt’s Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys oregonensis) in the San Bernardino Mountains (California, USA), 2020.
Brants’ Climbing Mouse (Dendromus mesomelas), South Africa.
Woodland Thicket Rat (Grammomys dolichurus), South Africa.
Maned Rat (Lophiomys imhausi), Ethiopia 2018. One of three recent records in Ethiopia.

27. PRIMATES
Grey-shanked Douc Langur ((Pygathrix cinerea) near Nui Thanh (Vietnam), 2024.
Red-shanked Douc Langur (Pygathrix nemaeus) at Danang (Vietnam), 2024.

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