WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Ondatra zibethicus | Muskrat 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
Muskrats are distributed across North America from northern Alaska and
Canada south to parts of the Gulf Coast and northern portions of Mexico
[1].  They are found in northern and central California, parts of
southern Arizona, northern Utah and Nevada, most of New Mexico, the
Texas Panhandle, and eastern Texas, and a small part of western Texas
and the Louisiana coast.  Muskrats are not found in Florida or coastal
Georgia and South Carolina [14].  Ranges for each subspecies are given
below [14]:

 1. O. z. zibethicus - eastern U.S. and southeastern Canada
 2. O. z. albus - Manitoba and adjacent central Canada
 3. O. z. aquilonius - Labrador and adjacent Ungava and Quebec
 4. O. z. bernardi - Colorado River areas of southeastern California,
                     southern Nevada, and western Arizona and Mexico
 5. O. z. cinnamominus - Great Plains
 6. O. z. goldmani - southwestern Utah, northwestern Arizona, and 
                     southeastern Nevada
 7. O. z. macrodon - mid-Atlantic Coast
 8. O. z. mergens - northern Nevada and parts of adjacent states
 9. O. z. obscurus - Newfoundland
10. O. z. occipitalis - coastal Oregon and Washington
11. O. z. osoyoosensis - Rocky Mountains and southwestern Canada
12. O. z. pallidus - southcentral Arizona and west-central New Mexico
13. O. z. ripensis - southwestern Texas and southeastern New Mexico
14. O. z. rivalicius - southern Louisiana, Mississippi coast,
                       western Alabama, and eastern Texas
15. O. z. spatulatus - northwestern North America
16. O. z. zalophus - southern Alaska


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES17 Elm-ash-cottonwood
FRES18 Maple-beech-birch
FRES28 Western hardwoods
FRES36 Mountain grasslands
FRES37 Mountain meadows
FRES38 Plains grasslands
FRES39 Prairie
FRES40 Desert grasslands
FRES41 Wet grasslands
FRES42 Annual grasslands
FRES44 Alpine


STATES : 


    
AL
    
AK
	
AZ
    
AR
    
CA
    
CO
    
CT
    
DE
    
GA
    
ID


    
IL
    
IN
    
IA
    
KS
    
KY
    
LA
    
ME
    
MD
    
MA
    
MI


    
MN
    
MS
    
MO
    
MT
    
NE
    
NV
    
NH
    
NJ
    
NM
    
NY


    
NC
    
ND
    
OH
    
OK
    
OR
    
PA
    
RI
    
SC
    
SD
    
TN


    
TX
    
UT
    
VT
    
VA
    
WA
    
WV
    
WI
    
WY
    
DC






    
AB
    
BC
    
MB
    
NB
    
NF
    
NT
    
NS
    
ON
    
PE
    
PQ


    
SK
    
YK
    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    







    
MEXICO
    




BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    6  Upper Basin and Range
    7  Lower Basin and Range
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   10  Wyoming Basin
   11  Southern Rocky Mountains
   12  Colorado Plateau
   13  Rocky Mountain Piedmont
   14  Great Plains
   15  Black Hills Uplift
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K049  Tule marshes
   K073  Northern cordgrass prairie
   K074  Bluestem prairie
   K075  Nebraska Sandhills prairie
   K077  Bluestem - sacahuista prairie
   K078  Southern cordgrass prairie
   K090  Live oak - sea oats
   K101  Elm - ash forest
   K114  Pocosin


SAF COVER TYPES : 
    16  Aspen
    63  Cottonwood
   108  Red maple
   217  Aspen
   235  Cottonwood - willow


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Muskrats inhabit wetland plant communities comprised of cattail (Typha
spp.), bulrush (Scirpus spp.), sedge (Carex spp.), reed (Phragmites
spp.), cordgrass (Spartina spp.), saltgrass (Distichlis spicata), and
black rush (Juncus roemerianus) [1,14].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Ondatra zibethicus | Muskrat