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Imperiled Mammals

Authored By: P. A. Flebbe

In the southern Appalachians there are seven threatened and endangered mammal species (SAMAB 1996):

  1. Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsend ii virginianus)
  2. Gray bat (Myotis grisescens)
  3. Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis)
  4. Red wolf (Canis rufus)
  5. Eastern cougar (Felis concolor cougar)
  6. Carolina northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus coloratus)
  7. Virginia northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus fuscus)

Viability concerns exist for a number of other mammals in the southern Appalachians (SAMAB 1996): 

  1. Southeastern bat (Myotis austroriparius)
  2. Eastern small-footed bat (Myotis leibii)
  3. Appalachian cottontail (Sylvilagus obscurus)
  4. Southern rock vole (Microtus chrotorrhinus carolinensis)
  5. Southern Appalachian eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana haematoreia)
  6. Allegheny woodrat (Neotoma magister)
  7. Rafinesques big-eared bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii)
  8. Southern water shrew (Sorex palustris punctulatus)

 


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