List of mammals of Ohio

This is a list of mammals of Ohio.

Native species

There are 64 native mammal species of Ohio.

Native mammal species of Ohio

Common name	Binomial name	Status	Picture
Virginia opossum	Didelphis virginiana	Extant
Northern short-tailed shrew	Blarina brevicauda	Extant
North American least shrew	Cryptotis parva	Extant
Masked shrew	Sorex cinereus	Extant
Smoky shrew	Sorex fumeus	Extant
American pygmy shrew	Sorex hoyi	Extant	[ data missing ]
Star-nosed mole	Condylura cristata	Extant
Hairy-tailed mole	Parascalops breweri	Extant
Eastern mole	Scalopus aquaticus	Extant
Rafinesque's big-eared bat	Corynorhinus rafinesquii	Extant
Big brown bat	Eptesicus fuscus	Extant
Silver-haired bat	Lasionycteris noctivagans	Extant
Eastern red bat	Lasiurus borealis	Extant
Hoary bat	Lasiurus cinereus	Extant
Eastern small-footed bat	Myotis leibii	Extant
Little brown bat	Myotis lucifugus	Extant
Northern long-eared bat	Myotis septentrionalis	Extant
Indiana bat	Myotis sodalis	Extant
Evening bat	Nycticeius humeralis	Extant
Tricolored bat	Perimyotis subflavus	Extant
Snowshoe hare	Lepus americanus	Locally extinct	Summer coat Winter coat
Eastern cottontail	Sylvilagus floridanus	Extant
Southern flying squirrel	Glaucomys volans	Extant
Thirteen-lined ground squirrel	Ictidomys tridecemlineatus	Extant
Woodchuck / groundhog	Marmota monax	Extant
Eastern gray squirrel	Sciurus carolinensis	Extant
Fox squirrel	Sciurus niger	Extant
Eastern chipmunk	Tamias striatus	Extant
American red squirrel	Tamiasciurus hudsonicus	Extant
North American beaver	Castor canadensis	Extant
Woodland jumping mouse	Napaeozapus insignis	Extant
Meadow jumping mouse	Zapus hudsonius	Extant
Prairie vole	Microtus ochrogaster	Extant
Eastern meadow vole	Microtus pennsylvanicus	Extant
Woodland vole	Microtus pinetorum	Extant
Southern red-backed vole	Clethrionomys gapperi	Extant
Allegheny woodrat	Neotoma magister	Locally extinct
Muskrat	Ondatra zibethicus	Extant
Marsh rice rat	Oryzomys palustris	Locally extinct
White-footed mouse	Peromyscus leucopus	Extant
Eastern deer mouse	Peromyscus maniculatus	Extant
Eastern harvest mouse	Reithrodontomys humulis	Extant
Southern bog lemming	Synaptomys cooperi	Extant
North American porcupine	Erethizon dorsatum	Extant
Eastern wolf	Canis lycaon	Locally extinct
Gray fox	Urocyon cinereoargenteus	Extant
Red fox	Vulpes vulpes	Extant
American black bear	Ursus americanus	Extant
Raccoon	Procyon lotor	Extant
North American river otter	Lontra canadensis	Extant
American marten	Martes americana	Locally extinct
Least weasel	Mustela nivalis	Extant
American ermine	Mustela richardsonii	Extant
Long-tailed weasel	Neogale frenata	Extant
American mink	Neogale vison	Extant
Fisher	Pekania pennanti	Extant [1]
American badger	Taxidea taxus	Extant
Striped skunk	Mephitis mephitis	Extant
Bobcat	Lynx rufus	Extant
Canada lynx	Lynx canadensis	Locally extinct
Eastern cougar	Puma concolor couguar	Globally extinct
Plains bison	Bison bison bison	Locally extinct
Eastern elk	Cervus canadensis canadensis	Globally extinct
White-tailed deer	Odocoileus virginianus	Extant	Male (buck or stag) Female (doe) with juveniles (fawns)

Non-native species

There are 5 non-native mammal species in Ohio.

Non-native mammal species in Ohio

Common name	Binomial name	Picture
Coyote [a]	Canis latrans
Wild boar [4]	Sus scrofa
House mouse	Mus musculus
Brown rat	Rattus norvegicus
Black rat	Rattus rattus

See also

• Lists of mammals by region
• List of U.S. state mammals
• List of birds of Ohio

Notes

1. While coyotes are native to the contiguous United States as a whole, they only first appeared in Ohio in 1919. ^[2] The eastward expansion of coyotes out of their native range was caused by the human-driven extinction of local apex predators (gray wolves, eastern wolves, and cougars) and the conversion of previously forested areas into farmland. ^[3]

References

1. DiTirro, Tessa (March 7, 2024). "An animal that was extirpated from Northeast Ohio is making a comeback". News 5 Cleveland. Scripps Media, Inc. Retrieved July 19, 2025.
2. Weeks, John L.; Tori, Gildo M.; Shieldcastle, Mark C. (1990). "Coyotes (Canis latrans) in Ohio" (PDF). Ohio Journal of Science. 90 (5). Ohio Division of Wildlife, Crane Creek Wildlife Experiment Station: The Ohio State University Libraries: 142–145. hdl: 1811/23411 . Retrieved October 30, 2025. p. 142: Coyotes were first recorded in Ohio in 1919.
3. Hody, James W.; Kays, Roland (2018). Eizirik, Eduardo (ed.). "Mapping the expansion of coyotes (Canis latrans) across North and Central America". ZooKeys (759). Pensoft Publishers: 81–97. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.759.15149 . Retrieved October 30, 2025. p. 82: Various interacting factors are thought to have contributed to coyotes' rapid expansion in North America. First, extirpation of apex predators likely helped coyotes expand by reducing predation risk and allowing coyotes to expand their niche to larger prey. Specifically, the extirpation of wolves (C. lupus, C. rufus, and/or C. lycaon) and cougar (Puma concolor) across most of eastern North America, and the decline of cougar and jaguar (Panthera onca) in Central America probably set the stage for coyote colonization (Bekoff and Gese 2003, Berger and Gese 2007, Cove et al. 2012, Méndez-Carvajal and Moreno 2014). Second, conversion of once-forested landscapes to agricultural landscapes in eastern North America and Central America likely facilitated coyote expansion by creating suitable coyote habitat in areas that were previously unsuitable (Vaughan 1983, Parker 1995, Macdonald and Sillero-Zubiri 2004).
4. "Invasive Species: Feral Swine in Ohio". Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved July 19, 2025.