Nevada's Animals
Nevada has a wide variety of unique and interesting animals. Click on the different types of animals you would like to learn more about. From there, you will find detailed fact sheets on certain critters, and quick facts on others that call Nevada home.
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Mammals Reptiles Fish Birds Amphibians
Endangered Species
Looking for more information about Endangered Species in Nevada? Visit Nevada's Natural Heritage Program web site or the Nevada's U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Endangered Species web page.
Mammals
What's a Mammal?
A mammal is a warm-blooded vertebrate (has a backbone) that can self-regulate its body temperature, has hair, and the females have mammae (milk producing organs). There are more than 4,000 living species of mammals, including humans.
- Antelope
- Bats
- Myotis Brown Bat
- Spotted Bat
- Townsend's Big-eared Bat
- Beaver - Mountain
- Black Bear
- Bobcat
- Chipmunk - Palmer's
- Coyote
- Deer - Mule Deer
- Desert Bighorn Sheep
- Goat - Rocky Mountain Goat
- Gopher - Pocket
- Mole - Broad-footed or California
- Mountain Lion
- Rabbits
- Black-tailed Jack rabbits
- Cottontail
- White-tailed Jack rabbits
- Pygmy Rabbits
- Squirrels
- Antelope
- Beldings
- Golden-Mantled
- Paiute
- Richardson's
- Rock
- Round Tailed
- Townsend's
- Wyoming
- Weasel
- Long-tailed
Reptiles
What's a Reptile?
A reptile is a cold-blooded, usually egg laying vertebrate (has a backbone) that has an outer covering of scales or horny plates and breathes with lungs.
- Chuckwalla
- Desert Tortoise
- Gecko - Banded
- Banded Gila Monster
- Snakes
- Sidewinder
- Mohave
- Speckled
- Western Diamondback
- Western Rattlesnake
- Great Basic Gopher Snake
Fish & Aquatics
What's a Fish?
A fish is a cold-blooded aquatic vertebrate (has a backbone) that has fins, gills and a streamlined body.
- Bass
- Largemouth Bass
- Smallmouth Bass
- Spotted Bass
- Striped Bass
- White Bass
- Wiper
- Catfish
- Bullhead Catfish
- Channel Catfish
- White Catfish
- Perch
- Sacramento Perch
- Yellow Perch
- Walleye
- Panfish
- Bluegill Sunfish
- Crappie
- Green Sunfish
- Redear Sunfish
- Trout
- Brook Trout
- Bull Trout
- Brown Trout
- Cutthroat Trout
- Kokanee Salmon
- Mackinaw Trout
- Rainbow Trout
- Rainbow Cutthroat Hybrid
- Tiger Trout
Birds
What's a Bird?
A bird is a warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate (has a backbone) that lays eggs and has wings.
- Mountain Bluebird
- Bald Eagle
- Falcon - Peregrine
- Hawk
- Goshawk
- Red-tailed
- Pelican - American White
- Phainopepla
- Owls
- Burrowing Owl
- Great Horned Owl
- Quail
- Gambel's
- Mountain
- Sage Grouse
- Sandpiper - Least
- Sandhill Crane
- Southwest Willow Flycatcher
- White-faced Ibis
- Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Quick Amphibian Facts
What's an Amphibian?
An amphibian is a cold-blooded, smooth skinned vertebrate (has a backbone) that typically are hatched in the water and breathe through gills and metamorphosize, or change into, an adult that breathes with air-breathing lungs.
Download your guide to Nevada's Frogs and Toads PDF. Learn how to tell the difference between frogs and toads, and how to identify them when you're out and about.