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This is a list of fauna found in the U.S. state of Michigan, including those of wider distribution. See also List of threatened fauna of Michigan.

Invertebrates

Cnidaria

  • Craspedacusta sowerbyi

Arthropods

Arachnids

  • European garden spider
  • Misumenops celer

Crustaceans

  • Armadillidium vulgare (common pillbug)
  • Cambarus diogenes (chimney crayfish)
  • Cambarus robustus (big water crayfish)
  • Creaserinus fodiens (digger crayfish)
  • Faxonius immunis (calico crayfish)
  • Faxonius propinquus (northern clearwater crayfish)
  • Faxonius rusticus (rusty crayfish)
  • Faxonius virilis (northern crayfish)
  • Procambarus acutus acutus (white river crawfish)

Insects

Coleoptera
Diptera
Dictyoptera
  • Chinese mantis (introduced)
Hemiptera
  • Adelphocoris lineolatus
  • Green stink bug
  • Large milkweed bug
Hymenoptera
  • Dolichovespula maculata
  • Polistes dominulus
  • Polistes exclamans
  • Polistes fuscatus
  • Polistes metricus
  • Vespa crabro
  • Vespula maculifrons
Lepidoptera
Odonata
Orthoptera
  • Differential grasshopper
  • Gryllus pennsylvanicus
  • Barrens or spotted-winged grasshopper
  • Spur-throat grasshopper
  • Blue-legged locust
  • Hebard's green-legged locust
  • Hoosier locust
  • Atlantic-coast or long-horned grasshopper
  • Lake Huron locust
  • Secretive locust
  • Post-oak grasshopper
  • Ceuthophilus silvestris
  • Ceuthophilus uhleri
  • Woodland meadow katydid
  • Bog conehead
  • Neoconocephalus retusus
  • Eelicate meadow katydid
  • Pine katydid
  • Davis's shield-bearer
  • Melodious ground cricket
  • Tamarack tree cricket
  • Pine tree cricket

Entognatha

  • Willowsia nigromaculata

Molluscs

Vertebrates

Amphibians

Birds

Longer list at Michigan Breeding birds Atlas, Appendix 3

Turkeys in Clyde
Wild turkeys in Clyde
Sialia sialis -Michigan, USA -pair-8c
Eastern bluebirds in Michigan
Grus canadensis -Michigan, USA-8
Sandhill crane in Michigan
Dendroica kirtlandii -Michigan, USA -male-8 (5)
Kirtland warbler in Michigan
Cygnus olor -Michigan, USA -head-8
Mute swan in Michigan
Picoides pubescens -Michigan, USA -male-8
Downy woodpecker in Michigan

Extinct

Fish

Extinct fish

Mammals

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Fox squirrel in Portage, Michigan
Muskrat Michigan
Muskrat in Brownstown, Michigan
Gray Wolf Seney NWR 2
Wolf at Seney National Wildlife Refuge, Michigan
White-tailed Buck in a Wooded Area Kensington Metropark Michigan
White-tailed deer at Milan, Michigan

Reptiles

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