MARSUPICARNIVORA/DIDELPHIMORPHIA
Virginia Opossum Didelphis virginiana **

INSECTIVORA (now EULIPOTYPHLA)
Southern Short-tailed Shrew Blarina carolinensis ** (photo above)
Eastern Mole Scalopus aquaticus **

CHIROPTERA
Tricolored Bat Perimyotis subflavus, formerly Eastern Pipistrelle Pipistrellus subflavus ** (photo at right)
Eastern Red Bat Lasiurus borealis **
Big Brown Bat Eptesicus fuscus **

CARNIVORA
American Mink Neovison vison, formerly Mustela vison--roadkill in front of Center
River Otter Lontra canadensis, formerly Lutra canadensis
Striped Skunk Mephitis mephitis
Dog* Canis familiaris **
Coyote Canis latrans--Not directly observed but heard howling and "captured" with trail cam at staked-out roadkill (photo below right)
Red Fox Vulpes vulpes
Raccoon Procyon lotor **
Feral (House) Cat* Felis silvestris catus, formerly F. domestica **

PRIMATES
Human* Homo sapiens

ARTIODACTYLA
White-tailed Deer Odocoileus virginianus
Cow* Bos taurus

LAGOMORPHA
Eastern Cottontail Sylvilagus floridanus **

RODENTIA
Eastern Chipmunk Tamias striatus **
Eastern Gray Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis **
Southern Fox Squirrel Sciurus niger niger
Southern Flying Squirrel Glaucomys volans ** (photo below)
American Beaver Castor canadensis
Marsh Rice Rat Oryzomys palustris ** (possible first York County SC record)
White-footed Mouse Peromyscus leucopus **
Golden Mouse Ochrotomys nuttalli **
Hispid Cotton Rat Sigmodon hispidus **
Woodland (Pine) Vole Microtus pinetorum **
Muskrat Ondatra zibethicus
House Mouse* Mus musculus **
Brown (Norway) Rat* Rattus norvegicus **

* = Introduced species
** = 19 species that have been live-trapped (or otherwise captured), examined, and released

Southern Flying Squirrel, Glaucomys volans

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