Flora & Fauna - Animal Checklist

Report:                      Texas to Newfoundland, 2000

This list includes all animal species (except birds) identified along the trip.  Date and location refers to the first sighting in Newfoundland or if not found there, then the first sighting in Canada or if not found in Canada, then the first sighting in the U.S.

Observer:                  Bert Frenz

Species Observed:    84 (17 mollusks, 19 anthropods, 8 fish, 5 reptiles, 25 mammals, 10 others)

Coelenterates:

Moon Jellyfish - 8/2/2000. Cape Breton Highlands NP, NS
Brain Coral -  7/10/2000, Twillingate, NF

Segmented Worms:

Bamboo Worm - 8/23/2000, Fundy National Park, NB

Echinoderms:

Green Sea Urchin - 7/2/2000, L'Anse-aux-Meadows, NF

Mollusks:

Gastropods (Univalves)

Common European Periwinkle - 7/10/2000, Twillingate, NF
Common Northern Moon Snail - 7/10/2000, Twillingate, NF
Waved whelk - 7/2/2000, L'Anse-aux-Meadows, NF
New England Dog Whelk - 8/23/2000, Fundy National Park, NB
European Black Slug - 8/4/2000, Cape Breton Highlands NP, NS

Pelecypods (Bivalves)

Atlantic Oyster Drill - 7/11/2000, Twillingate, NF
Common Blue Mussel - 6/24/2000, Codroy Valley, NF
Northern Horse Mussel - 7/10/2000, New London Lighthouse, PE
Iceland Scallop - 7/3/2000, Flower's Cove, NF
Atlantic Deep-Sea Scallop - 8/16/2000, Digby, NS
Eastern Oyster - 6/12/2000, New London Lighthouse, PE
Greenland Cockle - 7/10/2000, Twillingate, NF
Northern Quahog Clam - 6/12/2000, Prince Edward Island
Balthic Macoma - 8/8/2000, Bay of Fundy, NB
Atlantic Jackknife Clam - 6/27/2000, Cowhead, NF
Atlantic Surf Clam (Bar Clam) - 6/13/2000, New London Lighthouse, PE
Soft-shell Clam (steamer, gaper) - 6/24/2000, Codroy Valley, NF

Anthropods:

Crustaceans

Northern Rock Barnacle - 7/5/2000, L'Anse Amour, Labrador
Northern Lobster - 6/24/2000, Codroy Valley, NF
Sand Shrimp - 7/10/2000, Twillingate, NF
Long-clawed Hermit Crab - 8/23/2000, Fundy National Park, NB
Blue Crab - 6/24/2000, Codroy Valley, NF
Snow Crab - 8/2/2000, Cape Breton Highlands NP, NS
Green Crab - 8/23/2000, Fundy National Park, NB

Insects - Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies)

Luna Moth - 5/11/2000, Mammoth Cave, KY
Pipevine Swallowtail - 5/8/2000, Burns Park, AR
Short-tailed Swallowtail - 6/24/2000, Codroy Valley, NF
Giant Swallowtail - 6/19/2000, Harvey Moore WMA, PE
Tiger Swallowtail - 7/7/2000, Gros Morne NP, NF
Cabbage White - 7/4/2000, Labrador Straits, Labrador
Brown Elfin - 7/24/2000, St. John's, NF
Spring Azure - 7/9/2000, Twillingate, NF
Mourning Cloak - 7/2/2000, St. Anthony, NF
Milbert's Tortoiseshell - 7/24/2000, St. John's, NF
Red Admiral - 5/13/2000, Rondeau Point, ON
Monarch - 8/18/2000, Brier Island, NS

Chordates:

Fish

American Eel - 7/12/2000, Goose Bay, NF
Atlantic Salmon - 8/17/2000, Digby, NS
Brown Trout - 7/20/2000, St. John's, NF
Atlantic Cod - 6/30/2000, NF ?
Pollock - 8/12/2000, Peggy's Cove, NS
Shorthorn Sculpin (Myoxocephalus scorpius) - 6/24/2000, Codroy Valley, NF
Winter Flounder - 6/24/2000, Codroy Valley, NF
Capelin (Mallotus villosus) - 7/4/2000, L'Anse au Loup, Labrador

Amphibians

Green Frog - 8/15/2000, Kejimkujik NP, NS

Reptiles

American Toad - 6/26/2000, Barachois Pond PP, NF
Snapping Turtle - 5/13/2000, Rondeau Point, ON
Eastern Painted Turtle - 8/15/2000, Kejimkujik NP, NS
Northern Fence Lizard - 5/8/2000, Burns Park, AR
Common Garter Snake - 5/13/2000, Rondeau Point, ON

Mammals

Masked Shrew - 7/2/2000, St. Anthony, NF
Big Brown Bat - 5/11/2000, Mammoth Cave, KY
Racoon - 5/13/2000, Rondeau Point, ON
Coyote - 8/1/2000, Bras d'Or bridge, NS
Red Fox - 7/11/2000, Terra Nova, NF
Harbor Seal - 7/12/2000, near Green Is., NF
Gray Seal - 8/2/2000, Cape Breton Highlands NP, NS
Woodchuck - 7/4/2000, Point Amour, Labrador
Eastern Chipmunk - 6/26/2000, Barachois Pond PP, NF
Eastern Gray Squirrel - 5/8/2000, Burns Park, AR
Red Squirrel - 6/24/2000, Cheeseman PP, NF
Beaver - 6/11/2000, Prince Edward Is. NP, PE
Meadow Vole - 5/13/2000, Rondeau Point, ON
Porcupine - 5/31/2000, Grand Metis, QU
Snowshoe Hare - 6/26/2000, Barachois Pond PP, NF
Eastern Cottontail - - 5/8/2000, Burns Park, AR
White-tailed Deer - 5/24/2000, Gatineau Park, QE
Moose - 6/28/2000, River of Ponds, NF
Woodland Caribou - 7/9/2000, South Pond, NF
Common Dolphin - 7/12/2000, St. Pierre ferry, NF
Atlantic White-sided Dolphin - 8/2/2000, Cape Breton Highlands NP, NS
Long-finned Pilot Whale /Com.Blackfish - 8/2/2000, Cape Breton Highlands NP, NS
Finback Whale - 6/23/2000, Ferry to NF
Minke Whale (Piked Whale) - 7/4/2000, Pinware River PP, Labrador
Humpback Whale - 7/5/2000, Labrador Straits ferry

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