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Missouri Vertebrae

  1. Coyote
    • Order Carnivora
    • Family Canidae
    • Canis latrans
    • Facts: Jump and Land hunting Technique
    • Increasingly more common
  2. Bobcat
    • Order Carnivora
    • Family Felidae
    • Lynx rufus
    • Both Nocturnal and Diurnal
    • Eyes: Eliptical in day & Round at night
  3. River Otter
    • Order Carnivora
    • Family Mustelidae
    • Lontra canadensis
    • Fact: Social animal
    • Stable But was almost extinct
  4. Indiana Bat
    • Order Chiroptera
    • Myotis sodalis
    • Facts: Endangered
    • Polygynandrous
  5. Eastern Chipmunk
    • Order Rodentia
    • Tamias striatus
    • Facts: Common
    • Omnivour
  6. White tailed Deer
    • Order Artiodactyla
    • Odocoileus virginianus
    • Facts: Common
    • Hit by cars
  7. Wild Turkey
    • Order Galliformes
    • Meleagris gallopavo
    • Facts: Conmmon
    • Hens mate first Year Males may not
  8. Downey Woodpecker
    • Order Piciformes
    • Picoides pubescens
    • Facts: Animal of Least conserned
    • nest is made by both males and females
  9. Ruby Throated Hummingbird
    • Order Apodiformes
    • Archilochus colubris
    • Facts: Smallest Bird in Missouri
    • If it gets to 20 degrees its body goes in to hibernation
    • Not Endangered due to conservation
  10. Boreal Chorus Frog
    • Order Anura
    • Family Hylidae
    • Pseudacris triseriata
    • Facts: Use to be called Western Chorus
    • Male fertilizes eggs that are layed by female 5-300 of them
    • Natural Antifreeze in blood
    • Indicatior Species
  11. Eastern Collared Lizard
    • Order Squamata
    • Crotaphytus collaris collaris
    • Fact: On the Decline
    • Indicatior Species
  12. Eastern Garder Snake
    • Order Squamata
    • Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
  13. Timber Rattlesnake
    • Order Squamata
    • Crotalus horridus
    • Fact: Endangered for meat and skin
    • Shed skin every 1-2 years
  14. shovelnose sturgeon
    • Superclass Osteichthyes
    • Class Actinopterygii
    • Subclass Condrosteii
    • Scaphirhynchus platorynch
    • Facts: Barbles (wisker like)
    • Endangered in Ohio and Alabama not in Missouri
  15. Ozark cavefish
    • Superclass Osteichthyes
    • Class Actinopterygii
    • Subclass Neopterygi
    • Infraclass Telostei
    • Amblyopsis rosae
    • Facts: wisker like sensory projections
    • Endangered
Author
Ariecke12
ID
114130
Card Set
Missouri Vertebrae
Description
The species of Missouri vertebrata
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