Animals in Peru / Mammals native to Peru

Mammals native to Peru

Even-toed ungulates

Northern pudu
Collared peccary
White-lipped peccary
White-tailed deer
North andean deer
Vicugna
Chunyi
Red brocket
Brown brocket
Guanaco

Carnivores

Crab-eating raccoon
Cougar
Marine otter
La plata otter
Eyra cat
Chilean pampa cat
Andean cat
South american fur seal
Short-eared dog
Peruvian desert fox
Andean fox
Tropical weasel
Maned wolf
Jaguar
Molina's hog-nosed skunk
Amazonian hog-nosed skunk
Bush dog
Ocelot
Lesser grison
Margay
Greater grison
Tayra
Long-tailed weasel
Allen's olingo
Andean bear
Kinkajou
Giant brazilian otter
South american coati

Dolphins, porpoises, and whales

Killer whale
Bunch
Amazon river dolphin
Pygmy sperm whale
Blainville's beaked whale
Fraser's dolphin
Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale
Dusky dolphin
Gray's beaked whale
Lesser beaked whale
Common minke whale
Bryde's whale
Estuarine dolphin
Blue whale
Pygmy killer whale
Bridled dolphin
False killer whale
Black porpoise
Long-beaked dolphin
Rough-toothed dolphin
Southern right whale dolphin
Pacific pilot whale
Long-finned pilot whale
Atlantic dolphin

Bats

Pallas's long-tongued bat
Smokey bat
Common vampire bat
Tent-maiking bat
Thomas's nectar bat
Hairy yellow-shouldered bat
Dwarf dog-faced bat
White-winged vampire bat
Brown tent-making bat
Tomes's sword-nosed bat
Chestnut short-tailed bat
Little yellow-shouldered bat
Black mastiff bat
Northern ghost bat
Bedentate yellow-eared bat
Seba's short-tailed bat
Louis's yellow-shouldered bat
Handley's tailless bat
Fischer's little fruit bat
Greater ghost bat
Brock's yellow-eared bat
Greater yellow-shouldered bat
Geoffroy's tailless bat
Dwarf little fruit bat
Pallas's mastiff bat
Lesser ghost bat
Melissa's yellow-eared bat
Long-legged bat
Lesser yellow-shouldered bat
Shaggy bat
Tilda yellow-shouldered bat
Broad-toothed tailless bat
Little yellow-eared bat
Brazilian free-tailed bat
Big-eared brown bat
Hairy-legged vampire bat
Great stripe-faced bat
Small big-eared brown bat
Spectral bat
Long-snouted bat
Chestnut sac-winged bat
Andesen's fruit-eating bat
Proboscis bat
Ghost-faced bat
White-lined bat
Salvin's big-eyed bat
Brown fruit-eating bat
Greater sac-winged bat
Kalinowski's mastiff bat
Short-headed broad-nosed bat
Little big-eyed bat
Fraternal fruit-eating bat
Frosted sac-winged bat
Incan little mastiff bat
Thomas's broad-nosed bat
Hairy big-eyed bat
Silver fruit-eating bat
Lesser sac-winged bat
Heller's broad-nosed bat
Buffy broad-nosed bat
Intermediate long-tailed bat
Jamaican fruit-eating bat
Greater broad-nosed bat
Macconnell's bat
Lesser long-tailed bat
Great fruit-eating bat
Silver-tipped myotis
Brazilian brown bat
Dark fruit-eating bat
Atacama myotis
Argentine brown bat
Pygmy fruit-eating bat
Hairy-legged myotis
Big brown bat
Black myotis
Harmles serotine
Riparian myotis
Black bonneted bat
Velvety myotis
Dwarf bonneted bat
Wagner's bonneted bat
Hairy big-eared bat
Peter's disk-winged bat
Hawaiian hoary bat
Little big-eared bat
Sanborn's bonneted bat
White-bellied big-eared bat
Spix's disk-winged bat
Greater dog-like bat
Lesser bulldog bat
Western bonneted bat
Big crested mastiff bat
Blunt-eared bat
White-winged dog-like bat
Visored bat
Greater bulldog bat
Thumbless bat
Brown mastiff bat
Greater round-eared bat
Lesser dog-like bat
Dark long-tongued bat
Peale's free-tailed bat
Davy's naked-backed bat
Pale-faced bat
Chestnut long-tongued bat
Broad-eared bat
Big naked-backed bat
Pale spear-nosed bat
Aratathomas's yellow0shouldered bat
Big free-tailed bat
Parnell's mustached bat
Striped hairy-nosed bat
Fringe-lipped bat
Lesser spear-nosed bat
Handley's nectar bat
Wagner's mustached bat
Greater spear-nosed bat
Western nectar bat
Bidentate yellow-shouldered bat
Commissaris's long-tongued bat
Rufous dog-faced bat
Orange nectar bat
Bogota yellow-shouldered bat

American marsupials

Sepia short-tailed opossum
Black-shouldered opossum
Aceramarca gracile mouse opossum
Black four-eyed opossum
Agile gracile mouse opossum
Elegant fat-tailed opossum
Emilia's short-tailed opossum
Anderson's mouse opossum
Osgood's short-tailed opossum
Little rufous mouse opossum
Theresa's short-tailed opossum
Andean slender mouse opossum
Delicate slender mouse opossum
Water opossum
White-eared opossum
Common opossum
Murine mouse opossum
Robinson's mouse opossum
Bushy-tailed opossum
Red mouse opossum
White-bellied slender mouse opossum
Brown four-eyed opossum
Short-furred woolly mouse opossum
Western woolly opossum

Hares, pikas, and rabbits

Shrew opossums

Gray-bellied shrew opossum
Incan shrew opossum

Horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs

Andean tapir
Brazilian tapir

Primates

Ed-chested mustached tamarin
Andean night monkey
Equatorial saki
Black-chested mustached tamarin
Black-headed squirrel monkey
Ma's night monkey
Golden-mantled saddle-back tamarin
Black-headed night monkey
Night monkey
Black-faced black spider monkey
Coppery titi monkey
Black-mantled tamarin
Booted titi
Long-haired spider monkey
Saddlebacked tamarin
Emperor tamarin
Brown titi monkey
White-fronted capuchin
Red howler monkey
Gray monkey saki
Golden-mantled howling monkey
Geoffroy's monk saki
Bald uakari
Andean titi monkey
Goeldi's marmoset

Rodents

Trinidad arboreal rice rat
Andean leaf-eared mouse
Andean pygmy rice rat
Andean mouse
Darwin's leaf-eared mouse
Sandy pygmy rice rat
Puna mouse
Definitive leaf-eared mouse
Destructive pygmy rice rat
Gerbil leaf-eared mouse
Guinea pig
Small-eared pygmy rice rat
Master leaf-eared mouse
Montane guinea pig
Coues's climbing mouse
Pacarana
Bunchgrass leaf-eared mouse
Narrow-footed bristly mouse
Chibchan water mouse
White-footed climbing mouse
Ashy chinchilla rat
Short-tailed chinchilla
Yellow-bellied climbing mouse
Altiplano chincilla mouse
Tomes's rice rat
Marsh rat
Golden oldfield mouse
Ecuadorean rice rat
Capybara
Ash-colored oldfield mouse
Peruvian rice rat
Stolzmann's crab-eating rat
Peruvian tree rat
Zuniga's dark rice rat
Daphne's oldfield mouse
Keays's rice rat
Dark tree rat
Spiny tree rat
Peruvian oldfield mouse
Light-footed rice rat
Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat
Green acouchi
Andean gerbil mouse
Woolly-headed spiny tree rat
Slender oldfield mouse
Macconnell's rice rat
Neotropical pygmy squirrel
Red acouchi
Inca oldfield mouse
Black-eared rice rat
Bolivian squirrel
Andean altiplano mouse
Strong-tailed oldfield mouse
Elegant rice rat
Northern amazon red squirrel
Bolivian spiny rat
Jelski's altiplano mouse
Kalinowski's oldfield mouse
Gray rice rat
Junín red squirrel
Huallaga spiny rat
Distinguished oldfield mouse
Yellowish rice rat
Northern viscacha
Sanborn's squirrel
Cuvier's spiny rat
Pacific spiny rat
Bicolor-spined porcupine
Thomas's oldfield mouse
Yungas rice rat
Southern viscacha
Bolivian big-eared mouse
Southern amazon red squirrel
Mountain paca
Highland grass mouse
Hendee's spiny rat
White-toothed tuco-tuco
Rosalinda's oldfield mouse
Incan hocicudo
Painted big-eared mouse
Guayaquil squirrel
White-bellied grass mouse
Long-tailed spiny rat
Highland tuco-tuco
Taczanowski's oldfield mouse
Paramo hocicudo
Andean big-eared mouse
Ucayali spiny mouse
Bristly mouse
Bolivian grass mouse
Napo spiny rat
Peruvian tuco-tuco
Small hocicudo
Andean swamp rat
Smoky grass mouse
Simon's spiny rat
Bolivian bamboo rat
Peruvian fish-eating rat
Junin grass mouse
Steere's spiny rat
Amazon bamboo rat
Andean rat
Koford's grass mouse
Peruvian bamboo rat
Pleasant bolo mouse
Thespian grass mouse
Black agouti
Common yellow-toothed cavy
Soft grass mouse
Highland small rice rat
Kalinowski agouti
Gerlepp's mouse
El dorado grass mouse
Forest small rice rat
Altiplano grass mouse
Amazon dwarf squirrel
Puno grass mouse
Andean vesper mouse
Bicolored arboreal rice rat
Silent grass mouse
Peruvian vesper mouse
Dusky arboreal rice rat
Robert's arboreal rice rat
Cloud forest grass mouse
Friendly leaf-eared mouse

Dugongs, manatees, and sea cows

Amazonian manatee

Edentates

Giant armadillo
Cabasu
Greater long-nosed armadillo
Common long-nosed armadillo
Hairy long-nosed armadillo

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