Welcome to this special area of Burke Mammalogy's web pages, where you can explore the biodiversity of Washington's mammals.  All species in the state are found on our checklist, and you can click on each name for an account of its natural history, geographic distribution, and further information.

Washington's mammal fauna consists of 148 species that belong to nine of the world's 26 orders of mammals.  Of the 148 species, nine have been introduced, leaving 139 natives  Thirty-two of the species are marine mammals, and we have 16 species of flying mammals, the bats. This leaves 91 species of land mammals.

Jim Kenagy
Curator of Mammals and Professor of Zoology

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Maps of geographic distribution within Washington in our individual species accounts are taken from "Terrestrial Mammals of Washington State, a Washington Gap Analysis Project," by R. E. Johnson and K. M. Cassidy (1997) .  Maps of geographic distribution in North America are taken from "Land Mammals of Oregon," by B. J. Verts and L. N. Carraway (1998), University of California Press www.ucpress.edu.  Many of the links to species accounts are to the Animal Diversity Web of the University of Michigan's Museum of Zoology.

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