Below is a glossary of animals used in the United States for animal testing for fiscal years 2019-2021 (Oct. 1, 2019-Sep. 30, 2021) as reported to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
A
addra gazelle (dama gazelle)
African dormouse
African pygmy mouse
African soft-furred rat (multimammate mouse)
African swamp rat
African yellow house bat
Allegheny woodrat
Allen’s short-tailed bat
alpine chipmunk
Alston’s brown mouse (short-tailed singing mouse)
Amazon manatee
American deer mouse
American false vampire bat
American least shrew
American mink
American pika
American pine vole (woodland vole)
American pygmy shrew
American red squirrel
American water shrew
Angolan soft-furred fruit bat
anoa (tamarau)
Arctic ground squirrel (Arctic souslik)
Arctic shrew
Arizona cotton rat
Armenian hamster (migratory hamster)
Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine
Aztec deer mouse
B
Bailey’s pocket mouse
banner-tailed kangaroo rat
bare-tailed woolly opossum
beach mouse (oldfield mouse, or deermouse)
big brown bat
big-eared opossum
black-and-rufous elephant shrew
black-banded squirrel
black-shouldered opossum
black-tailed jackrabbit
Botta’s pocket gopher
Brazilian free-tailed bat
brow-antlered deer (Eld’s deer)
brown long-eared bat
brush mouse
Bryant’s woodrat
bushy-tailed woodrat
C
cactus mouse
California bat
California mouse
California pocket mouse
California rock squirrel
California vole
Canadian lynx
canyon mouse
cape ground squirrel
cape porcupine
Caribbean manatee
caribou (reindeer)
cave Myotis
Chinese hamster
colonial tuco-tuco
common mole-rat (African mole-rat)
common tree shrew
D
dairy cow
Damara mole rat (Damaraland blesmol or mole rat)
deer (wild/exotic)
Degu
desert cottontail rabbit
desert kangaroo rat
desert pocket mouse
desert woodrat
domestic chinchilla
domestic ferret
domestic goat
domestic guinea pig
domestic horse
domestic pig (including potbelly pig and micro pig)
domestic rabbit
Douglas’s squirrel
Dulzurra kangaroo rat
dusky shrew
dusky-footed woodrat
E
eastern cottontail rabbit
eastern grey kangaroo
eastern grey squirrel
eastern mole
eastern shrew mouse (shrew rat)
eastern spotted skunk
eastern woodrat
Egyptian fruit bat
Eurasian common shrew
European common vole
evening bat (vesper bat)
F
fat sand rat
fat-tailed dwarf lemur
four-striped grass mouse
four-toed hedgehog
fringed bat
fulvous harvest mouse
G
Gambian pouched rat (northern giant pouched rat)
Gapper’s red-backed vole
golden mouse
golden-mantled ground squirrel
Grant’s zebra
grassland rat
gray four-eyed opossum (grey four-eyed opossum)
gray fox (grey fox)
gray red-backed vole (grey red-backed vole)
gray seal (grey seal)
gray short-tailed opossum (grey short-tailed opossum)
gray whale (grey whale)
gray wolf (grey wolf; timber wolf)
great basin pocket mouse
greater bush baby
greater Madagascar hedgehog tenrec
greater white-toothed shrew
Grevy’s zebra
groundhog (woodchuck)
Gunnison’s prairie dog
H
hairy-tailed mole
harbor seal (harbour seal)
Harris’s antelope squirrel
Hawaiian monk seal
heather vole
hispid pocket mouse
house shrew
I
Idaho ground squirrel
Indian grey mongoose
Indian muntjac
Indiana myotis (Indiana mouse-eared bat)
J
Jamaican fruit-eating bat (Jamaican fruit bat)
Javan wild pig
K
L
Largha seal
lesser Egyptian jerboa
lesser Madagascar hedgehog tenrec
lesser mouse lemur
little pocket mouse
lodgepole chipmunk
Long-Evans rat
long-footed bat
long-nosed bat
long-tailed pocket mouse
M
marsh rice rat
masked shrew
meadow jumping mouse
melon-headed whale
Merriam’s kangaroo rat
Mexican long-eared bat
Mongolian gerbil
Mongolian vole
N
New England cottontail rabbit
Nile rat
non-human primates
North American black bear
North Atlantic right whale
northern bog lemming
northern flying squirrel
northern pocket gopher
northern pygmy mouse
northern red-backed vole
northern right whale dolphin
northern tree shrew
northern yellow bat
Eurasian lynx (northern lynx)
Norway rat (brown rat)
O
Oaxacan big-toothed deer mouse
Oldfield mouse
Ord’s kangaroo rat
P
Pacific pocket mouse
Pacific white-sided dolphin
Palestine mole rat
Pallas’s long-tongued bat
pallid bat
Parnell’s mustached bat
Pinyon mouse
plains harvest mouse
plains pocket gopher
plains zebra (common zebra)
prairie shrew
prairie vole
prehensile-tailed porcupine
puma (mountain lion, cougar)
pygmy killer whale
pygmy squirrel
Q
R
raccoon (ringtail)
red fox (includes silver fox, cross fox)
red tree vole
Reeve’s muntjac
Richardson’s ground squirrel
Roborovski’s dwarf hamster
Rocky Mountain goat (mountain goat)
S
San Bernardino kangaroo rat
San Diego pocket mouse
Seba’s short-tailed bat
Seminole bat
Senegal bush baby
shadow chipmunk
short-finned pilot whale
slender-tailed meerkat
small Asian mongoose (Javan mongoose)
small Indian mongoose
smoky shrew
southeastern bat
southern bog lemming
southern flying squirrel
southern multimammate mouse
southern plains woodrat
southern red-backed vole
spotted ground squirrel
St. Paul island shrew
Northern sea lion (Steller sea lion)
Stephen’s kangaroo rat
striped ground squirrel
subantarctic fur seal
sugar glider
golden hamster (Syrian hamster)
T
tail-less tenrec
Texas mouse
thicket rat
thirteen-lined ground squirrel
Townsend’s chipmunk
Eastern pipistrelle (tri-colored bat)
African Spiny mouse (Turkish spiny mouse)
U
V
W
watusi (steer)
western grey squirrel
western harvest mouse
western mastiff bat (western bonneted bat)
western tufted-tailed rat
white-nosed coati
white-tailed antelope squirrel
Wilson’s spiny mouse
woodland jumping mouse
X
Y
yellow armadillo
Yuma bat
Z