ECOLOGY OF COLORADO MAMMALS

Class Mammalia

Order, Family: species

Insectivora, Soricidae: Masked Shrew

Lagomorpha, Leporidae: Desert Cottontail, Black-tailed Jackrabbit, Snowshoe Hare

                     Ochotonidae: Pika

Rodentia, Sciuridae: Least Chipmunk, Colorado Chipmunk, Yellow-bellied Marmot, Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel, Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel, Rock Squirrel, Black-tailed Prairie Dog, Abert’s Squirrel, Fox Squirrel, Pine Squirrel or Chickaree

                Geomyidae: Northern Pocket Gopher

                Castoridae: Beaver

                Muridae: Deer Mouse, Mexican Woodrat, Montane Vole

                Zapodidae: Meadow Jumping Mouse

                Erethizontidae: Porcupine

Carnivora, Canidae: Coyote, Red Fox

                  Procyonidae: Raccoon

                  Ursidae: Black Bear 

                  Mustelidae: Long-tailed Weasel, American Badger, Striped Skunk

                  Felidae: Mountain Lion

Artiodactyla, Cervidae: Elk, or Wapiti, Mule Deer

                      Antilocapridae: Pronghorn