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List of fauna of Oregon

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This is a list of species of fauna (animals) that have been observed in the U.S. State of Oregon.

Contents

Caudata

  • Oregon slender salamander

    • Serpentes

  • California mountain kingsnake - Native to Oregon
  • Common garter snake - Native to Oregon.
  • Common kingsnake Native to Oregon
  • Gopher snake - Native to Oregon
  • Ground snake - Owyhee River
  • Night snake - Native to Oregon
  • Northwestern garter snake - Native to Oregon
  • Pacific rattlesnake- Native to Oregon
  • Racer - Native to Oregon
  • Ringneck snake - Native to Oregon
  • Rubber boa - Native to Oregon
  • Sharptail snake - Native to Oregon
  • Striped whipsnake - Native to Oregon
  • Western rattlesnake - Found in Eastern Oregon
  • Western terrestrial garter snake - Native to Oregon

    • Testudines

  • Snapping turtle - Introduced into Oregon.
  • Western painted turtle - Native to Oregon.

    • Haplotaxida

  • Oregon giant earthworm

    • Birds

  • List of birds of Oregon

    • Notostraca

  • Branchinecta lynchi - Also in California.
  • Lepidurus packardi - Mostly Californian, but found in Jackson County, Oregon as well.

    • Cypriniformes

  • Warner sucker - Also in California, Arizona, and Nevada.
  • Shortnose sucker - Also in California.
  • Lost River sucker - Also in California.
  • Modoc sucker - Also in California.

    • Acipenseriformes

  • Green sturgeon - Rogue River in Oregon.
  • White sturgeon - Umpqua River in Oregon.

    • Lamniformes

  • Common thresher - Oregon coast.
  • Great white shark - Oregon coast.
  • Basking shark - Oregon coast.

    • Rajiformes

  • Broad skate - Oregon coast.
  • Fine-spined skate - Oregon coast.
  • Pacific white skate - Oregon coast.
  • Roughtail skate - Oregon coast.
  • Deepsea skate - Oregon coast.
  • Sandpaper skate - Oregon coast.

    • Perciformes

  • Calico surfperch - Oregon coast.

    • Carcharhiniformes

  • Brown catshark - Oregon coast.

    • Scorpaeniformes

  • Mosshead sculpin - Oregon coast.
  • Pit sculpin - Goose lake, Drews creek, and Thomas Creeks.
  • Prickly sculpin - River drainages

    • Petromyzontidae

  • Pacific lamprey - Native to Oregon
  • Lampetra ayresii - Native to Oregon
  • Western brook lamprey - Native to Oregon

    • Odonata

  • Canada darner - Native to Oregon and common across America.
  • Paddle-tailed darner - Native to Oregon and common across America.
  • Shadow darner - Native to Oregon and common across America.
  • Common green darner - Native to Oregon and common across America.
  • Sooty dancer - Native to Oregon.
  • Paiute dancer - Native to Oregon.
  • River jewelwing - Native to Oregon and common across America.
  • Taiga bluet - Native to Oregon and common across America.

    • Orthoptera

  • Jerusalem cricket - Found in Central and Eastern Oregon in the desert regions.

    • Hymenoptera

  • Franklin's bumble bee - Found in Southern Oregon.

    • Rodenta

  • Baird's shrew - Endemic to northwest Oregon.
  • Camas pocket gopher - occurs only in the Willamette Valley, endemic to northwest Oregon in the Northwestern United States.
  • Fog shrew - Also can be found in northern California.
  • Gray-tailed vole - Endemic to Oregon.
  • Pacific shrew - Endemic to western Oregon.
  • White-tailed antelope squirrel - Found in central, eastern, and south-eastern Oregon, the desert regions.
  • Mountain beaver - Found in Western Oregon.
  • California kangaroo rat - Found in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Oregon.
  • Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat - Found in South Eastern Oregon.
  • Ord's kangaroo rat - Found in Eastern Central Oregon.

    • Chiroptera

  • Pallid bat - Native to Oregon and common in the western United States.

    • Cetartiodactyla

  • American bison - Regionally extinct.

    • Lagomorpha

  • Pygmy rabbit - North Eastern Oregon.

    • References

    List of fauna of Oregon Wikipedia
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