Mammals  
and Some Other Wildlife
in Panama


noting those found during 
Focus On Nature Tours
with an (*)

thru 2013

A List Of Panama Mammals 
compiled by Armas Hill 


Upper-right photo: a WHITE-NOSED COATI
photographed during a FONT tour
(photo by Marie Gardner) 



Codes:

CB:   in the Canal Basin
CH:   in the Chiriqui highlands, in western Panama
CL:   in the Chiriqui lowlands, in western Panama  
EP:   in eastern Panama
DL:   in the Darien lowlands  

(ph):  species with a photo in the FONT web-site


THREATENED and NEAR-THREATENED SPECIES:  

t1:   critically endangered
t2:   endangered
t3:   vulnerable
nt:   near-threatened

 


Links:

Upcoming FONT Birding & Nature Tours in Panama

A List of Panama Birds

Central American Mammals  (with some photos)

A List of Central American Butterflies & Moths, in 6 parts  (with some photos)

Directory of Photos in this FONT Web-Site 

1. Derby's Woolly Opossum  (t3)   ______
   Caluromys derbianus
   
   
2. Water Opossum  ______  
   Chironectes minimus
   
   
3. Common Opossum  (*)  ______    (has also been called Black-eared Opossum)
   Didelphis marsupialis
   
   
4. Common Gray Four-eyed Opossum ______  
   Philander opossum
   
   
5. Brown Four-eyed Opossum ______  
   Metachirus nudicaudatus
   
   
6. Alston's Mouse-Opossum  ______     
   Marmosa alstoni  
   
   
7. Isthmian Mouse-Opossum  ______  
   Marmosa isthmica
   
   
8. Mexican Mouse-Opossum  ______  
   Marmosa mexicana  
   
   
9. Robinson's Mouse-Opossum  ______  
   Marmosa robinsoni
   
   
10. Tschudi's Slender Mouse-Opossum  ______ 
    Marmosops impavidus
    
    
11. Slaty Slender Mouse-Opossum  ______  
    Marmosops invictus 
    
    
12. Sepia Short-tailed Opossum  ______  
    Monodelphis adusta
    
    
    Family DASYPODIDAE
    
    
13. Nine-banded Long-nosed Armadillo  (ph) (*)  ______ 
    Dasypus novemcinctus
    
    
14. Northern Naked-tailed Armadillo  ______  
    Cabassous centralis
    
    
    Family CYCLOPEDIDAE
    
    
15. Silky Anteater  ______  
    Cyclopes didactylus
    
    
    Family MYRMECOPHAGIDAE
    
    
16. Giant Anteater  (nt) (ph)  ______  
    Myrmecophaga tridactyla
    
    
17. Northern Tamandua  (ph) (*)  ______ 
    Tamandua mexicana
    
    
    Family MEGALONYCHIDAE 
    
    
18. Hoffmann's Two-toed Sloth  (ph) (*)  ______  
    Choloepus hoffmanni
    
    
    Family BRADYPODIDAE
    
    
19. Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth  (ph) (*)  ______  
    Bradypus variegatus 
    
    
20. Pygmy Three-toed Sloth  (t1)  ______  (species described in 2001)
    Bradypus variegatus 
    
    The Pygmy Three-toed Sloth occurs only on the island Escudo de Veraguas, a Panamanian island off the country's Caribbean coast.
    
    Also called the Dwarf Sloth, or the Monk Sloth, it is about 40 per cent smaller than the related Brown-throated Three-toed Sloth on the mainland.
    During a study in 2011, less than 80 Pygmy Three-toed Sloths were found.   
    
    
    Family LEPORIDAE
    
    
21. Tapeti  ______  
    Sylvilagus brasiliensis
    
    Another name for Silvilagus brasiliensis is the Brazilian Rabbit.
    
    
22. Dice's Cottintail  (t2)  ______  
    Sylvilagus dicei
    
    
23. Eastern Cottontail  ______  
    Sylvilagus floridanus
    
    
    Family SCIURIDAE
    
    
24. Central American Dwarf Squirrel  ______  
    Microsciurus alfari
    
    
25. Western Dwarf Squirrel  ______  
    Microsciurus mimulus
    
    
26. Red-tailed Squirrel  (*)  ______  
    Sciurus granatensis
    
    
27. Variegated Squirrel  (*)  _______  
    Sciurus spadiceus
    
    
28. Bang's Mountain Squirrel  (nt)  ______  
    Syntheosciurus brochus
    
    
    Family CRICETIDAE
    
    
29. Bicolored Arboreal Rice Rat  (*)  ______  
    Oecomys bicolor
    
    
30. Trinidad Arboreal Rice Rat  ______  
    Oecomys trinitatis
    
    
    Family MURIDAE
    
    
31. House Mouse (i) ______
    Mus musculus
    
    
32. Rattus norvegicus
    
    
33. Brown Rat  (i) (ph)  ______
    Rattus rattus 
    
    
    Family ERETHIZONTIDAE
    
    
34. Rothchild's Porcupine  ______  
    Coendou rothschildi
    
    
35. Mexican Hairy Dwarf Porcupine  ______   
    Sphiggurus mexicanus
    
    
    Family CUNICULIDAE
    
    
36. Lowland Paca  (*)  ______  (also called Spotted Paca)
    Cuniculus paca
    
    
    Family DASYPROCTIDAE
    
    
37. Central American Agouti  (ph) (*)  ______ 
    Dasyprocta punctata  
    
    
38. Coiban Agouti  (t3)  ______  
    Dasyprocta coibae
    
    The Coiban Agouti is endemic to the island of Coiba.
    
    
    Family CAVIIDAE
    
    
39. Capybara  (ph) (*)  ______   
    Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris
    
    
    Family ECHIMYIDAE
    
    
40. Rufous Soft-furred Spiny Rat  ______  
    Diplomys labilis
    
    
41. Armored Rat  ______  
    Hoplomys gymnurus
    
    
42. Tome's Spiny Rat  ______  
    Proechimys semispinosus
    
    
    Family FELIDAE
    
    
43. Ocelot  (ph) ______  
    Leopardus pardalis
    
    
44. Margay  ______  
    Leopardus wiedii
     
    
45. Oncilla  (nt)  ______  
    Leopardus tigrinus
    
    
46. Jaguarundi  ______  
    Puma yaguarondi 
    
    
47. Puma  (ph)  ______  
    Puma concolor
    
    
48. Jaguar  (ph) ______  
    Panthera onca
    
    
    Family CANIDAE
    
    
49. Gray Fox  ______  
    Urocyon cinereoargenteus
    
    
50. Coyote  (ph)  ______  
    Canis latrans
    
    
51. Bush Dog  (t3)  ______  
    Speothos venaticus
    
    
    Family URSIDAE
    
    
52. Spectacled Bear  (t3)  ______  
    Tremarctos ornatus
    
    
    Family PROCYONIDAE
    
    
53. Cacomistle  ______  
    Bassariscus sumichrasti
    
    
54. Bushy-tailed Olingo  ______  
    Bassaricyon gabbii
    
    The Northern Olingo has been called the Bushy-tailed Olingo.
    
    The "Chiriqui Olingo", formerly Bassaricyon pauli, of western Panama has been merged into Bassaricyon gabbii. It may be a subspecies.
    
    
55. Western Lowland Olingo  ______
    Bassaricyon medius
    
    The range of the Western Lowland Olingo is in Panama and Colombia & Ecuador, west of the Andes.   
    
    
56. Common Raccoon  ______  
    Procyon lotor
    
    
57. Crab-eating Raccoon  (ph) (*)  ______  
    Procyon cancrivorous
    
    
58. White-nosed Coati  (ph) (*)  ______  
    Nasua nurica  
    
    
59. Kinkajou  (ph) (*)  ______  
    Potos flavus
    
    
    Family MUSTELIDAE
    
    
60. Long-tailed Weasel  ______  
    Mustela frenata
    
    
61. Greater Grison  ______  
    Galictis vittata
    
    
62. Tayra  (*)  ______  
    Eira barbara
    
    
63. Neotropical River Otter  (*)  ______  
    Lutra longicaudis   
    
    
    Family MEPHITIDAE
    
    
64. Striped Hog-nosed Skunk  ______  
    Conepatus semistriatus
    
    
    Family SURICIDAE
    
    
65. Enders' Small-eared Shrew  (t2)  ______  
    Cryptotis endersi 
    
    
66. Talamancan Small-eared Shrew  (t3)  ______  
    Cryptotis gracilis
    
    
67. Blackish Small-eared Shrew  ______  
    Cryptotis nigrescens
    
    
68. North American Least Shrew  ______  
    Cryptotis parva  
    
    
    Family NOCTILIONIDAE
    
    
69. Greater Bulldog Bat  (ph) (*)  ______  
    Noctilio leporinus
    
    
70. Lesser Bulldog Bat  ______  
    Noctilio albiventris  
    
    
    Family VESPERTILIONIDAE
    
    
71. Silver-tipped Myotis  ______  
    Myotis albescens
    
    
72. Hairy-legged Myotis  ______  
    Myotis keaysi
    
    
73. Black Myotis  ______  
    Myotis nigricans
    
    
74. Montane Myotis  ______  
    Myotis oxyotus
    
    
75. Riparian Myotis  ______  
    Myotis riparius
    
    
76. Brazilian Brown Bat  ______  
    Eptesicus brasiliensis
    
    
77. Argentine Brown Bat  ______  
    Eptesicus furinalis
    
    
78. Big Brown Bat  ______  
    Eptesicus fuscus
    
    
79. Desert Red Bat  ______  
    Lasiurus blossevillii
    
    
80. Tacarcuna Bat  (t3)  ______  
    Lasiurus castaneus
    
    
81. Southern Yellow Bat  ______  
    Lasiurus ega
    
    
82. Big Red Bat  (nt)  ______  
    Lasiurus egregius
    
    
    Family MOLOSSIDAE
    
    
83. Southern Dog-faced Bat  ______
    Cynomops planirostris
    
    
84. Black Bonneted Bat  ______
    Eumops auripendulus
    
    
85. Dwarf Bonneted Bat  ______
    Eumops bonariensis
    
    
86. Wagner's Bonneted Bat  ______
    Eumops glaucinus
    
    
87. Sanborn's Bonneted Bat  ______
    Eumops hansae  
    
    
88. Black Mastiff Bat  ______
    Molossus ater
    
    
89. Bonda Mastiff Bat  ______
    Molossus bondae
    
    
90. Molossus coibensis  (nt)  ______
    
    
91. Velvety Free-tailed Bat  (ph)  ______
    Molossus molossus
    
    
92. Sinaloan Mastiff Bat  ______
    Molossus sinaloae
    
    
93. Broad-eared Bat  ______
    Nyctinomops laticaudatus
    
    
94. Big Crested Mastiff Bat  ______
    promops centralis
    
    
95. Mexican (or Brazilian) Free-tailed Bat  (ph)  ______
    Tadarida brasiliensis 
    
    
    Family EMABALLONURIDAE
    
    
96. Wagner's Sac-winged Bat  ______  
    Cormura brevivirostris
    
    
97. Northern Ghost Bat  ______  
    Diclidurus albus
    
    
98. Lesser Doglike Bat  ______  
    Peropteryx macrotis
    
    
99. Proboscis Bat  (ph) (*)  ______  
    Rhynchonycteris naso
    
    
100. Greater Sac-winged Bat  (*)  ______  
     Saccopteryx bilineata
     
     
101. Lesser Sac-winged Bat  ______  
     Saccopteryx leptura
     
     
102. Big Naked-backed Bat  ______
     Pteronotus gymnonotus
     
     
103. Parnell's Mustached Bat  (ph)  ______
     Pteronotus parnellii
     
     
104. Wagner's Mustached Bat  ______
     Pteronotus personatus
     
     
     Family PHYLLOSTOMIDAE
     
     
105. Common Vampire Bat  ______  
     Desmodus rotundus
     
     
106. White-winged Vampire Bat  ______  
     Diaemus youngi
     
     
107. Hairy-legged Vampire Bat  ______   
     Diphylla ecaudata
     
     
108. Little White-shouldered Bat  ______  
     Ametrida centuria
     
     
109. Handley's Tailless Bat  ______  
     Anoura cultrata
     
     
110. Geoffroy's Tailless Bat  ______  
     Anoura geoffroyi
     
     
111. Aztec Fruit-eating Bat  ______  
     Artibeus aztecus
     
     
112. Artibeus intermedius  ______  
     
     
113. Jamaican Fruit Bat  (ph)  ______  
     Artibeus jamaicensis
     
     
114. Great Fruit-eating Bat  ______  
     Artibeus litturatus
     
     
115. Pygmy Fruit-eating Bat  ______  
     Artibeus phaeotis
     
     
116. Toltec Fruit-eating Bat  ______  
     Artibeus toltecus
     
     
117. Wrinkle-faced Bat  ______  
     Centuria senex
     
     
118. Salvin's Big-eyed Bat  ______  
     Chiroderma salvini
     
     
119. Little Big-eyed Bat  ______  
     Chiroderma irinitatum
     
     
120. Hairy Big-eyed Bat  ______  
     Chiroderma villosum
     
     
121. Big-eared Wooly Bat  ______  
     Chrotopterus gymnonotus
     
     
122. Honduran White Bat  ______  
     Ectophylla alba
     
     
123. Velvety Fruit-eating Bat  ______  
     Enchisthenes harrtii
     
     
124. Commissaris' Long-tongued Bat  ______  
     Glossophaga commissarisi
     
     
125. Pallas' Long-tongued Bat  ______  
     Glossophaga soricina
     
     
126. Davies' Big-eared Bat  ______  
     Glyphonycteris daviesi 
     
     
127. Tricolored Big-eared Bat  ______  
     Glyphonycteris sylvestris
     
     
128. Underwood's Long-tongued Bat  ______  
     Hylonycteris underwoodi
     
     
129. Yellow-throated Big-eared Bat  ______  
     Lampronycteris brachyotis
     
     
130. Dark Long-tongued Bat  ______  
     Lichonycteris obscura
     
     
131. Chestnut Long-tongued Bat  ______  
     Lionycteris spurrelli
     
     
132. Godman's Nectar Bat  ______  
     Lonchophylla mordax
     
     
133. Orange Nectar Bat  ______  
     Lonchophylla robusta
     
     
134. Thomas' Nectar Bat  ______  
     Lonchophylla thomasi
     
     
135. Tomes' Sword-nosed Bat  ______   
     Lonchorhina aurita
     
     
136. Pygmy Round-eared Bat  ______  
     Lophostoma brasiliense
     
     
137. White-throated Round-eared Bat  ______  
     Lophostoma silvicolum
     
     
138. Long-legged Bat  ______  
     Macrophyllum macrophyllum
     
     
139. MacConnell's Bat  ______  
     mesophylla macconnelli
     
     
140. Hairy Big-eared Bat  ______  
     Micronycteris hirsuta
     
     
141. White-bellied Big-eared Bat  ______  
     Micronycteris minuta
     
     
142. Schmidt's Big-eared Bat  ______  
     Micronycteris schmidtorum
     
     
143. Striped Hairy-nosed Bat  ______  
     Mimon crenulatum
     
     
144. Thomas' Broad-nosed Bat  ______  
     Platyrrhinus dorsalis
     
     
145. Heller's Broad-nosed Bat  ______  
     Platyrrhinus helleri
     
     
146. Shadowy Broad-nosed Bat  ______  
     Platyrrhinus umbratus
     
     
147. Greater Broad-nosed Bat  ______  
     Platyrrhinus vittatus
      
     
148. Pale-faced Bat  ______  
     Phylloderma stenops
     
     
149. Pale Spear-nosed Bat  ______  
     Phyllostomus discolor
     
     
150. Greater Spear-nosed Bat  ______  
     Phyllostomus hastatus
     
     
151. Little Yellow-shouldered Bat  ______  
     Sturnira lilium
     
     
152. Highland Yellow-shouldered Bat  ______  
     Sturnira ludovici
     
     
153. Luis' Yellow-shouldered Bat  ______  
     Sturnira luisi
     
     
154. Talamancan Yellow-shouldered Bat  ______  
     Sturnira mordax 
     
     
155. Stripe-headed Round-eared Bat  ______  
     Tonatia saurophila
     
     
156. Fringe-lipped Bat  ______  
     Trachops cirrhosus
     
     
157. Niceforo's Big-eared Bat  ______  
     Trinycteris nicefori
     
     
158. Tent-making Bat  (ph)  ______  
     Uroderma bilobatum
     
     
159. Brown Tent-making Bat  ______  
     Uroderma magnirostrum 
     
     
160. Striped Yellow-eared Bat  ______  
     Vampyressa nymphaea
     
     
161. Southern Little Yellow-eared Bat  ______  
     Vampyressa pusilla
     
     
162. Great Stripe-faced Bat  ______  
     Vampyrodes caraccioli 
     
     
163. Silky Short-tailed Bat  ______  
     Carollia brevicauda
     
     
164. Chestnut Short-tailed Bat  ______  
     Carollia castanea
     
     
165. Seba's Short-tailed Bat  ______  
     Carollia perspicillata
     
     
166. Furipterus horrens  ______   
     
     
167. Peter's Disk-winged Bat  ______  
     Thyroptera discifera
     
     
168. Spix's Disk-winged Bat  ______  
     Thyroptera tricolor
     
     
     Family CEBIDAE
     
     
169. Geoffroy's Tamarin  (*)  ______  
     Saguinus geoffroyi
     
     Another name for Saguinus geoffroyi is the Red-naped Tamarin.
     
     
170. White-headed Capuchin  (ph) (*)  ______  
     Cebus cupucinus
     
     Cebus cupucinus has been called the White-faced Capuchin.
     
     
171. Central American Squirrel Monkey  (t2) (ph)  ______  
     Saimiri oerstedii
     
     
     Family AUTIDAE
     
     
172. Panamanian Night Monkey  ______  
     Aotus zonalis
     
     The Panamanian Night Monkey may be a subspecies of the Gray-bellied, or Lemurine Night Monkey, Aotus lemurinus.
     
     
     Family ATELIDAE
     
     
173. Mantled Howler Monkey  (ph) (*)  ______  
     Alouatta palliata 
     
     
174. Coiba Island Howler Monkey  (t2)  ______  
     Alouatta coibensis
     
     
175. Geoffroy's Spider Monkey  (ph)  ______  (*)
     Ateles geoffroyi
     
     
176. Black-headed Spider Monkey  (t1)  ______ 
     Ateles fusciceps
     
     
     Family TAYASSUIDAE
     
     
177. Collared Peccary  (ph) (*)  ______  
     Pecari tajacu
     
     
178. White-lipped Peccary  (nt) (ph)  ______  
     Tayassu pecari
     
     
     Family CERVIDAE
     
     
179. Red Brocket Deer  ______  
     Mazama americana
     
     
180. White-tailed Deer  (ph) (*)  ______  
     Odocoileus virginianus
     
     
     Family TAPIRIDAE
     
     
181. Baird's Tapir  (t2) (ph)  ______  
     Tapirus bairdii
     
     
     Family TRICHECHIDAE
     
     
182. West Indian Manatee  (t3) (ph)  ______  
     Trichechus inunguis
     
     
     Family BALAENOPTERIDAE
     
     
183. Blue Whale  (t2) (ph)  ______  
     Balaenoptera musculus
     
     
184. Humpback Whale  (t3) (ph)  ______
     Megaptera novaeangliae
     
     
     Family DELPHINIDAE
     
     
185. Common Dolphin  (ph)  ______
     Delphinus delphis
     
     
186. Pygmy Killer Whale  ______
     Feresa attenuata
     
     
187. Fraser's Dolphin  (ph)  ______ 
     Lagenodelphis hosei
     
     
188. Killer Whale  ______
     Orcinus orca
     
     
189. Costero  ______
     Sotalia fluviatilis  
     
     Sotalia fluviatilis is also called the Tucuxi or the Gray Dolphin.
     
     
190. Pantropical Spotted Dolphin  ______
     Stenella attenuata
     
     
191. Clymene Dolphin  (ph)  ______
     Stenella clymene
     
     
192. Striped Dolphin  ______
     Stenella coeruleoalba
     
     
193. Atlantic Spotted Dolphin  ______
     Stenella frontalis
     
     
194. Spinner Dolphin
     Stenella longirostris
     
     
195. Rough-toothed Dolphin  ______
     Steno bredanensis
     
     
     Family PHYSETERIDAE
     
     
196. Pygmy Sperm Whale  (ph)  ______
     Kogia breviceps
     
     
197. Sperm Whale  (t3) (ph)  ______
     Physeter macrocephalus
     
     
     Family ZIPHIIDAE
     
     
198. Blainville's Beaked Whale  ______
     Mesoplodon densirostris
     
     
199. Pygmy Beaked Whale  ______
     Mesoplodon peruvianus
     
     
200. Cuvier's Beaked Whale  (ph)  ______ 
     Ziphius cavirostris
              
     
     
     
     
201. small bats (sp.)
202. large bats (sp.)
203. fruit-eating bat (sp.)
204. rat (sp.)
205. Spectacled Caiman
206. Anaconda (10-ft+)
207. False Coral Snake (pseudoboa sp.)
208. Savannah Snake (leimaeophis sp.)
209. Tegu Lizard (tupinaambis sp.)
210. Whiptail Lizard (with green head)
211. other lizards
212. tree iguana
213. treefrogs (sp.)
214. toads (sp.)
215. Llanos Sideneck (turtle)
216. Piranha
217. Blue Morpho (butterfly)
218. leaf-cutter ants