How many species of mammals are in north america?
There are 965 mammal species in North America. There are 442 known mammal species in North America north of Mexico, and 523 in Mexico. Mexico is the second richest country for its size in the world regarding the number of mammal species. The country with the highest number of mammal species is Indonesia, with 670 species. Close behind is Brazil with 648 species, and China (551) and Mexico (523) are the only other two countries with more than 500 native mammal species. Within temperate North America there are 37 families with 643 species of mammals. The Southwest contributes impressively to this diversity; native mammal species in southwestern states number about 120 in Texas, 138 in Arizona, 139 in New Mexico, and 163 in California. There are 347 land-mammal species in North America north of Mexico. North America (excluding Mexico) is not particularly rich in mammal diversity; although containing 15% of the world’s land mass, it has only 7.5% of the world’s mammal species. Another sour
