Mexican Animals

List of Animals living in Mexico

Mammals

• Alcorn’s Pocket Gopher
• Allen’s Yellow Bat
• Allen’s Squirrel
• Baja California Rock Squirrel
• Banana Bat
• Big Mexican Small-eared Shrew
• Big Pocket Gopher
• Black Jackrabbit
• Buller’s Chipmunk
• Buller’s Pocket Gopher
• Burt’s Deer Mouse
• Cacomistle
• Central Mexican Broad-clawed Shrew
• Chestnut-bellied Shrew
• Chihuahua
• Coati
• Collie’s Squirrel
• Cozumel Harvest Mouse
• Cozumel Raccoon
• Dickey’s Deer Mouse
• Douglas Squirrel
• Durango chipmunk
• East Mexican Black Bear
• Eva’s Desert Mouse
• False Canyon Mouse
• Fish-eating Bat
• Goldman’s Pocket Gopher
• Grayish Mouse Opossum
• Guatemalan Broad-clawed Shrew
• Hairy Fruit-eating Bat
• Hairy Harvest Mouse
• Hooper’s Mouse
• Jaguar
• Jalapan Pine Vole
• Jico Deer Mouse
• Large-eared Gray Shrew
• Large-toothed Shrew
• Little Yellow Bat
• Merriam’s Pocket Gopher
• Mexican Agouti
• Mexican Big-eared Bat
• Mexican Cottontail
• Mexican Free-Tailed Bat
• Mexican Hairless Dog
• Mexican Howler
• Mexican Prairie Dog
• Mexican Shrew
• Mexican Small-eared Shrew
• Mexican Spider Monkey
• Mexican Water Mouse
• Mexican Wolf
• Mexican Volcano Mouse
• Michoacan Pocket Gopher
• Nelson’s Kangaroo Rat
• Nelson’s Small-eared Shrew
• Northern Tamandua
• Oaxacan Broad-clawed Shrew
• Oaxacan Pocket Gopher
• Ocelot
• Omilteme Cottontail
• Oriental Basin Pocket Gopher
• Orizaba Long-tailed Shrew
• Perote Ground Squirrel
• Peters’s Squirrel
• Pygmy Spotted Skunk
• Ring-tailed Ground Squirrel
• San Cristobal Shrew
• San José Brush Rabbit
• San Lorenzo Mouse
• Santa Cruz Mouse
• Schmidly’s Deer Mouse
• Sclater’s Shrew
• Sierra Madre Ground Squirrel
• Slender Yellow Bat
• Smoky Pocket Gopher
• Southern Flying Squirrel
• Tres Marias Cottontail
• Tres Marías Island Mouse
• Tres Marias Raccoon
• Tropical Ground Squirrel
• Tropical Pocket Gopher
• Vaquita
• Volcano Rabbit
• West Indian Manatee
• White-tailed Deer
• Winkelmann’s Mouse
• Zempoaltépec Vole

Birds

• Cactus Wren
• Elf Owl
• Resplendent Quetzal
• Scarlet Macaw
• Stunning Golden Eagle
• American Kestrel

Amphibians

• Arboreal Treefrog
• Anderson’s Salamander
• Aquatic Salamander
• Axolotl
• Big-footed Leopard Frog
• Blunt-headed Salamander
• Cave Splayfoot Salamander
• Cloud Forest Tree Frog
• Cofre de Perote Salamander
• Common Mexican Tree Frog
• Delicate-skinned Salamander
• Forrer’s Grass Frog
• Granular Salamander
• Green-flecked Salamander
• Lake Lerma Salamander
• Lake Patzcuaro Salamander
• Large-crested Toad
• Leora’s Stream Salamander
• Mexican Burrowing Toad
• Mexican Cliff Frog
• Mexican Leaf Frog
• Mexican Madre Toad
• Mexican Shovel-headed Treefrog
• Mountain Tree Frog
• Oaxacan Caecilian
• Oaxaca Treefrog
• Plateau Tiger Salamander
• Puerto Hondo Stream Salamander
• Red-Eyed Tree Frog
• Rio Grande Chirping Frog
• Sinaloa Toad
• Southern Highland Tree Frog
• Tarahumara Salamander
• Taylor’s Salamander
• Transverse Volcanic Leopard Frog
• Yellow-peppered Salamander

Reptiles

• Alamos Mud Turtle
• Baja California Whiptail
• Bogert’s Coral Snake
• Bolson Tortoise
• Bunch Grass Lizard
• Carl Lieb’s Anole
• Carmen Island Whiptail
• Catalina Island Leaf-toed Gecko
• Cerralvo Island Whiptail
• Coahuilan Box Turtle
• Colima Giant Whiptail
• Colima Hognosed Pitviper
• Conant’s Garter Snake
• Cozumel Racerunner
• Creaser’s Mud Turtle
• Cuatro Ciénegas Softshell
• Davis’ Leaf-toed Gecko
• Del Campo’s Leaf-toed Gecko
• Duellman’s Pigmy Leaf-toed Gecko
• Dunn’s Hognosed Pitviper
• Durango Night Lizard
• Eastern Racer
• El Muerto Island Speckled Rattlesnake
• Espiritu Santo Whiptail
• Fer-de-lance
• Flathead Knob-scaled Lizard
• Forest Ground Skink
• Four-toed Worm Lizard
• Fox’s Mountain Meadow Snake
• Guerreran Leaf-toed Gecko
• Giant Blind Snake
• Godman’s Garter Snake
• Goldenhead Garter Snake
• Gopher Snake
• Grimser’s Collared Lizard
• Isla Cerralvo Sator
• Isla Monserrate Whiptail
• Isla San José Whiptail
• Lane’s Leaf-toed Gecko
• Leatherback Sea Turtle
• Liner’s Garter Snake
• Longnose Garter Snake
• Longtail Alpine Garter Snake
• Many-lined Whiptail
• Mexican Alligator Lizard
• Mexican Horned Pitviper
• Mexican Mole Lizard
• Mexican Milk Snake
• Mexican Pigmy Whiptail
• Mexican Racerunner
• Mexican Spiny-tailed Iguana
• Mexican West Coast Rattlesnake
• Mexican Whiptail
• Mexican Yellow-bellied Brown Snake
• Mexican Yellow-lipped Viper
• Montane Garter Snake
• Nolasco Spiny-tailed Iguana
• Oaxaca Burrowing Snake
• Oaxaca Mud Turtle
• Oaxacan Coral Snake
• Oaxacan Dwarf Boa
• Oaxacan Leaf-toed Gecko
• Oaxacan Small-headed Rattlesnake
• Omilteman Small-headed Rattlesnake
• Opata Whiptail
• Ornate Slider
• Pacific Coast Parrot Snake
• Pallid Knob-scaled Lizard
• Pardita Norte Leaf-toed Gecko
• Pueblan Milk Snake
• Rio Marquez Valley Gecko
• Rock Horned Lizard
• Rodeck’s Whiptail
• Rossman’s Garter Snake
• Sack’s Spotted Whiptail
• San Francisco Island Whiptail
• San Lucan Gecko
• San Lucan Skink
• San Pedro Martir Whiptail
• Sierra Mije Earth Snake
• Short-tail alpine Garter Snake
• Smith’s Arboreal Alligator Lizard
• Sonoran Leaf-toed Gecko
• Southern Durango Spotted Garter Snake
• Sumichrast’s Garter Snake
• Tamaulipan Montane Garter Snake
• Tepalcatepec Valley Garter Snake
• Tepalcatepec Valley Whiptail
• Three-toed Worm Lizard
• Tzotzil Montane Pitviper
• Western Mexico Whiptail
• Yaqui Slider
• Yellow-throated Garter Snake
• Yucatán Hognosed Pitviper

Insects

• Monarch Butterfly

Invertebrates

• Brown Sea Cucumber
• Elkhorn Coral
• Mexican Redknee Tarantula
• Smith’s Redknee Tarantula

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