List of California Channel Islands wildlife
Some notable wildlife of the California Channel Islands include:
Fauna
- Island fox (Urocyon littoralis)
- Channel Island spotted skunk (Spilogale gracilis amphiala)
- Island scrub jay (Aphelocoma insularis)
- Ashy storm-petrel (Oceanodroma homochroa)
- Island fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis becki)
- Island night lizard (Xantusia riversiana)
- Deer mouse
- Channel Islands slender salamander (Batrachoseps pacificus)
- Santa Cruz sheep
- San Clemente Island goat
- Catalina Island buffalo herd
Flora
- Catalina cherry (Prunus ilicifolia ssp. lyonii)
- Catalina ironwood (Lyonothamnus floribundus)
- Green liveforever (Dudleya hassei)
- Giant coreopsis (Coreopsis gigantea)
- Island oak (Quercus tomentella)
- Island tree mallow (Lavatera assurgentiflora)
- Island ceanothus (Ceanothus arboreus)
- Island bush-poppy (Dendromecon rigida ssp. harfordii)
- Island alumroot (Heuchera maxima)
- Santa Barbara Island buckwheat (Eriogonum giganteum var. compactum)
- Island barberry (Berberis pinnata ssp. insularis)
- San Clemente Island bushmallow (Malacothamnus clementinus)
- Santa Cruz Island bush mallow (Malacothamnus fasciculatus var. nesioticus)
- Santa Cruz Island ironwood (very like the Catalina ironwood, Lyonothamnus)
- Santa Cruz Island silver lotus
- Torrey pine (Pinus torreyana) [rare subspecies sole occurrence][1]
- Santa Catalina Island currant (Ribes viburnifolium)
Recently extinct
- San Clemente Bewick's wren (Thryomane bewickii leucophrys), extinct 1927
Prehistoric
- Pygmy mammoth (Mammuthus exilis)
- Giant deer mouse (Peromyscus nesodytes)
See also
- Wildlife of the Channel Islands of California
- Channel Islands National Park
- Natural history of the Channel Islands of California
- Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
References
External links
- US National Park Service.gov: Animals of Channel Islands National Park
- Channel Islands native plants at the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden
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