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Mammals
Florida is home to at least 95 species of mammals (Class Mammalia), ten of which have been introduced or recently expanded their range into the state. Many nonnative species also have established breeding populations in the state. Mammals have several characteristics that set them apart from other vertebrates. Some of the most notable include mammary glands and hair. Except for the bats, mammals listed below have been documented to occur in NATL either by formal survey techniques or casual observations. Dr. Jackie Belwood provided the list of bats based on their expected occurrence in the air above NATL, either routinely or during their migrations.
= Time-expanded echolocating call; each sample lasts ten times longer than natural, and its frequency (“pitch”) is dropped to one-tenth of natural, to make the ultrasonic call audible to human ears.
Class Mammalia
| Order DIDELPHIMORPHIA | Opossums |
| Family Didelphidae | Opossums |
| Didelphis virginiana | Virginia Opossum |
| Order EDENTATA | Anteaters, Sloths, Armadillos |
| Family Dasypodidae | Armadillos | Dasypus novemcinctus | Nine-banded Armadillo |
| Order LAGOMORPHA | Rabbits, Hares and Pikas |
| Family Leporidae | Rabbits and Hares |
| Sylvilagus floridanus | Cottontail Rabbit |
| Sylvilagus palustris | Marsh Rabbit | Order RODENTIA | Rodents |
| Family Sciuridae | Squirrels |
| Sciurus carolinensis | Eastern Grey Squirrel |
| Family Cricetidae | New World Rats, Mice, etc. |
| Sigmodon hispidus | Hispid Cotton Rat |
| Peromyscus gossypinus | Cotton Mouse (more) |
| Order CHIROPTERA | Bats |
| Family Vespertilionidae | Twilight Bats |
| Eptesicus fuscus | Big Brown Bat |
| Lasiurus borealis | Red Bat |
| Lasiurus intermedius | Northern Yellow Bat |
| Lasiurus seminolus | Seminole Bat |
| Myotis austroriparius | Southeastern Bat (more) |
| Nycticeius humeralis | Evening Bat |
| Pipistrellus subflavus | Eastern Pipistrelle |
| Family Molossidae | Free-tailed Bats |
| Tadarida brasiliensis cynocephala | Brazilian Free-tailed Bat (more) |
| Order INSECTIVORA | Insectivores |
| Family Talpidae | Moles |
| Scalopus aquaticus | Eastern Mole (more) |
| Order CARNIVORA | Flesh-eating Mammals |
| Family Procyonidae | Raccoons |
| Procyon lotor | Raccoon | Family Canidae | Dogs, Wolves, Foxes |
| Canis latrans | Coyote** |
| Urocyon cinereoargenteus | Gray Fox (more) |
| Vulpes vulpes | Red Fox (more)** | Family Felidae | Cats |
| Felis domesticus | Feral Housecat | Order ARTIODACTYLA | Even-toed Ungulates |
| Family Cervidae | Deer | Odocoileus virginianus | White-tailed Deer* |
* White-tailed deer, tracks observed by Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman on 12 June 2012. Further evidence and sightings of a doe were noted until approximately October 2012. A white-tailed doe was spotted again 31 May 2016 by UGTA, Alex LoCastro.
**Lary Reeves spotted what he thought to be a coyote 23 December 2015. The presence of the coyote and NATL's first record of a red fox were confirmed via camera trap photos from Dr. Bob McCleery's Wildlife Techniques class.
