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
• 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

• Channel Islands of California

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nature of the Channel Islands (California).

• Channel Islands native plants at the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden