# List of fauna of Michigan

This is a list of fauna found in the U.S. state of Michigan, including those of wider distribution. See also List of threatened fauna of Michigan.

## Invertebrates
### Cnidaria

* Craspedacusta sowerbyi

### Arthropods
#### Arachnids

* European garden spider
* Misumenops celer

#### Crustaceans

* Armadillidium vulgare (common pillbug)
* Cambarus diogenes (chimney crayfish)
* Cambarus robustus (big water crayfish)
* Creaserinus fodiens (digger crayfish)
* Faxonius immunis (calico crayfish)
* Faxonius propinquus (northern clearwater crayfish)
* Faxonius rusticus (rusty crayfish)
* Faxonius virilis (northern crayfish)
* Procambarus acutus acutus (white river crawfish)

#### Insects
##### Coleoptera

* Brychius hungerfordi
* Cicindela sexguttata
* Colorado potato beetle
* Desmocerus palliatus
* Harmonia axyridis
* Megacyllene robiniae
* Neandra brunnea
* Rhyssomatus lineaticollis

##### Diptera

* Chironomus plumosus

##### Dictyoptera

* Chinese mantis (introduced)

##### Hemiptera

* Adelphocoris lineolatus
* Green stink bug
* Large milkweed bug

##### Hymenoptera

* Dolichovespula maculata
* Polistes dominulus
* Polistes exclamans
* Polistes fuscatus
* Polistes metricus
* Vespa crabro
* Vespula maculifrons

##### Odonata

* Blue dasher
* Erythemis simplicicollis
* Green darner
* Ischnura posita
* Lestes vigilax
* Sympetrum vicinum
* Variable dancer

##### Orthoptera

* Differential grasshopper
* Gryllus pennsylvanicus
* Barrens or spotted-winged grasshopper
* Spur-throat grasshopper
* Blue-legged locust
* Hebard's green-legged locust
* Hoosier locust
* Atlantic-coast or long-horned grasshopper
* Lake Huron locust
* Secretive locust
* Post-oak grasshopper
* Ceuthophilus silvestris
* Ceuthophilus uhleri
* Woodland meadow katydid
* Bog conehead
* Neoconocephalus retusus
* Eelicate meadow katydid
* Pine katydid
* Davis's shield-bearer
* Melodious ground cricket
* Tamarack tree cricket
* Pine tree cricket

#### Entognatha

* Willowsia nigromaculata

### Molluscs

* Eastern flat-whorl (Planogyra asteriscus)
* Giant floater (Pyganodon grandis)
* Northern riffleshell (Epioblasma torulosa)
* Quagga mussel (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis)
* Zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha)

## Vertebrates
### Birds

* American bittern (Botanus lentiginosus)
* American black duck (Anas rubripes)
* American coot (Fulica americana)
* American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)
* American goldfinch (Carduelis tristis)
* American kestrel (Falco sparverius)
* American white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos)
* Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
* Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula)
* Barn owl (Tyto alba)
* Belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon)
* Black tern (Chlidonias niger)
* Black-backed woodpecker (Picoides arcticus)
* Black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)
* Snow goose (Chen caerulescens)
* Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus)
* Bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus)
* Boreal chickadee (Poecile hudsonicus)
* Brant goose (Branta bernicla)
* Bonaparte's gull (Larus philadelphia)
* Broad-winged hawk (Buteo platypterus)
* Brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater)
* Canada goose (Branta canadensis)
* Canvasback (Aythya valisineria)
* Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)
* Caspian tern (Sterna caspia)
* Common loon (Gavia immer)
* Common nighthawk (Chordeiles minor)
* Common raven (Corvis corax)
* Common tern (Sterna hirundo)
* Double-crested cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus)
* Dovekie (Alle alle)
* Downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens)
* Eastern meadowlark (Sturnella magna)
* Forster's tern (Sterna forsteri)
* Gray catbird (Dumetella carolinensis)
* Great blue heron (Ardea herodias)
* Great egret (Ardea alba)
* Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus)
* Greater yellowlegs (Tringa flavipes)
* Green heron (Butorides virescens)
* Hairy woodpecker (Leuconotopicus villosus)
* Henslow's sparrow (Ammodramus henslowii)
* Herring gull (Larus argentantus)
* House finch (Haemorhous mexicanus)
* House sparrow (Passer domesticus)
* King eider (Somateria spectabilis)
* King rail (Rallus elegans)
* Kirtland's warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii)
* Least bittern (Ixobrychus exilis)
* Lesser yellowlegs (Tringa melanoleuca)
* Loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus)
* Long-eared owl (Asio otis)
* Long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis)
* Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
* Merganser (Mergus merganser)
* Merlin (Falco columbarius)
* Mourning dove (Zenaida macroura)
* Mute swan (Cygnus olor)
* Northern flicker (Colaptes auratus)
* Northern gannet (Morus bassanus) (rare in state)
* Northern goshawk (Astur atricapillus)
* Northern harrier (Circus cyaneus)
* Northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)
* Northern shoveler (Spatula clypeata)
* Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
* Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
* Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
* Pigeon (Columba livia)
* Pileated woodpecker (Dryocuopus pileatus)
* Pintail duck (Anas acuta)
* Piping plover (Charadrius melodus)
* Prairie warbler (Dendroica discolor)
* Purple martin (Progne subis)
* Red crossbill (Loxia curvirostra)
* Redhead duck (Aythya americana)
* Red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus)
* Red-tailed hawk
* Red-throated loon
* Red-winged blackbird
* Ring-billed gull (Larus delawarensis)
* Robin
* Ross's goose
* Ruby-throated hummingbird
* Ruffed grouse
* Rusty blackbird (Euphagus carolinus)
* Sandhill crane (Grus canadensis)
* Scarlet tanager (Piranga olivacea)
* Scaup
* Scoters
* Sharptailed grouse
* Short-eared owl (Asio flammeus)
* Snipe
* Snowy owl
* Sora rail
* Spruce grouse (Canachites canadensis)
* Trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator)
* Tundra swan
* Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura)
* Upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda)
* Virginia rail
* Western meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta)
* White-fronted goose
* White pelican
* Wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)
* Willet (Tringa semipalmata)
* Wilson's phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor)
* Wood duck
* Woodcock
* Yellow rail (Corturnicops noveboracensis)
* Yellow-throated warbler (Dendroica dominica)

#### Extinct

* Passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius)
* Heath hen (Tympanuchus cupido cupido)
* Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis)

### Fish

* Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)
* American gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum)
* American eel (Anguilla rostrata)
* Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
* Black buffalo (Ictiobus Niger)
* Black bullhead (Ameiurus melas)
* Black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus)
* Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus)
* Bigmouth buffalo (Ictiobus cyprinellus)
* Brook (five-spined) stickleback (Culaea inconstans)
* Brook silverside (Labidesthes sicculus)
* Brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis)
* Brown bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus)
* Brown trout (Salmo trutta)
* Bowfin (Amia calve)
* Burbot (Lota lota)
* Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus)
* Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
* Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch)
* Common carp (Cyprinus carpio)
* Dace
* Darter
* Flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris)
* Freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens)
* Goldfish (Carassius auratus)
* Grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella)
* Grass pickerel (Esox americanus vermiculatus)
* Green sunfish (Lepomis cyanellus)
* Killifish
* Lake herring or northern cisco (Coregonus artedi)
* Lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens)
* Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush)
* Lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis)
* Largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)
* Longear sunfish (Lepomis megalotis)
* Longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus)
* Longnose sucker (Catostomus catostomus)
* Menominee or round whitefish (Prosopium cylindraceum)
* Mooneye (Hiodon tergisus)
* Muskellunge (Esox masquinongy)
* Ninespine stickleback (Pungitius pungitius)
* Northern hogsucker (Hypentelium nigricans)
* Northern pike (Esox lucius)
* Orangespotted sunfish (Lepomis humilis)
* Oriental weatherfish (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus)
* Pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha)
* Pumpkinseed (Lepomis gibbosus)
* Quillback (Carpiodes cyprinus)
* Rainbow darter (Etheostoma caeruleum)
* Rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax)
* Rainbow trout or steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
* Redear sunfish (Lepomis microlophus)
* River redhorse (Moxostoma carinatum)
* Rock bass (Ambloplites rupestris)
* Round goby (Neogobius melanostomus)
* Ruffe (Gymnocephalus cernuus)
* Sauger (Sander canadensis)
* Saugeye (Sander canadensis × Sander vitreus)
* Sculpin
* Sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus)
* Shiner
* Smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu)
* Smallmouth buffalo (Ictiobus bubalus)
* Sockeye or kokanee (Oncorhynchus nerka)
* Splake (Salvelinus namaycush × Salvelinus fontinalis)
* Spotted gar (Lepisosteus oculatus)
* Stonecat (Noturus flavus)
* Threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
* Topminnow
* Trout-perch (Percopsis omiscomaycus)
* Tubenose goby (Proterorhinus marmoratus)
* Walleye (Sander vitreus)
* Warmouth (Lepomis gulosus)
* Western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)
* White bass (Morone chrysops)
* White crappie (Pomoxis annularis)
* White perch (Morone americana)
* White sucker (Catostomus commersonii)
* Yellow bullhead (Ameiurus natalis)
* Yellow perch (Perca flavescens)

#### Extinct fish

* Bigeye chub (Hybopsis amblops)
* Bluepike (Sander vitreus glaucus)
* Blackfin cisco(Coregonus nigrpinnis)
* Deepwater cisco (Coregonus johannae)
* Grayling (Thymallus arcticus)
* Ironcolor shiner (Notropis chalybaeus)
* Mississippi paddlefish (Polyodon spathula)
* Shortnose cisco (Coregonus reighardi)
* Weed shiner (Notropis texanus)

### Mammals

* American badger
* American bison (extirpated)
* American black bear
* American ermine
* American marten
* American red squirrel
* American water shrew
* Big brown bat
* Beaver
* Bobcat
* Brown rat (introduced)
* Canada lynx
* Cinereus shrew
* Cougar (extirpated, but vagrants sighted)
* Coyote
* Deer mouse
* Eastern cottontail rabbit
* Eastern gray squirrel
* Eastern mole
* Eastern chipmunk
* Eastern red bat
* Eastern wolf (naturally repopulated)
* Elk (reintroduced)
* Fisher
* Fox squirrel
* Gray fox
* Groundhog
* Hoary bat
* House mouse (introduced)
* Indiana bat
* Least chipmunk
* Least weasel
* Little brown bat
* Long-tailed weasel
* Meadow vole
* Meadow jumping mouse
* Mink
* Moose (reintroduced)
* Muskrat
* North American river otter
* Northern short-tailed shrew
* North American porcupine
* Prairie vole
* Raccoon
* Red fox
* Silver-haired bat
* Sika deer (introduced)
* Snowshoe hare
* Southern bog lemming
* Southern flying squirrel
* Star-nosed mole
* Striped skunk
* Thirteen-lined ground squirrel
* Virginia opossum
* White-footed mouse
* White-tailed deer
* Wolverine (extirpated)
* Woodland caribou (extirpated)
* Woodland jumping mouse
* Woodland vole