There are over 30 species in the Americas; if you have identified a specific species, include a photo with key chart distinctions with your small game app.

Other non-game, non-furbearing species may be taken if they are not listed as threatened or endangered.This includes the disparate species of mice, rats, and other burrowing animals, gophers, moles and ground squirrels. For help in identifying ground squirrels. A photo should be included with submission along with the location of kill to aid the Small Game VP in confirming the identity of your harvest.

Mountain Beaver (Aplodontia rufa) The mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa) is a North American rodent. It has several common names, including: aplodontia, boomer, ground bear, and giant mole.[citation needed] The name sewellel beaver comes from sewellel or suwellel, the Chinookan term for a cloak made from its pelts. This species is the only living member of its genus, Aplodontia, and family, Aplodontiidae.[2] It should not be confused with true North American and Eurasian beavers, to which it is not closely related

found in lower Colorado River drainage, West to San Diego, often mis identified as a mallard as the drake looks similar to a female mallard, but without the greenish bill but a bill that in orange like a female mallard but without the black saddle. The blue in the wing is not dark blue, but more tourquise, a similar species, the mottled duck has a green wing patch. The black duck has the blue patch, but has a darker body.

There are several subspecies from the large Great Basin to the mallard size Cackler and Aleutian Goose--both of the latter have recovered sufficiently for hunting but may have lower take limits--Check! the American Ornithologists' Union's Committee on Classification and Nomenclature split the two into two species, making cackling goose into a full species with the scientific name Branta hutchinsii. The British Ornithologists' Union followed suit in June 2005.[8] The AOU has divided the many subspecies between the two species. The subspecies of the Canada goose were listed as:

• Atlantic Canada goose, Branta canadensis canadensis
• Interior Canada goose, Branta canadensis interior
• Giant Canada goose, Branta canadensis maxima
• Moffitt's Canada goose, Branta canadensis moffitti
• Vancouver Canada goose, Branta canadensis fulva
• Dusky Canada goose, Branta canadensis occidentalis
• part of "lesser complex:" Branta canadensis parvipes Richardson's cackling goose, hutchinsii hutchinsii) are considerably smaller.

The smallest cackling goose, B. h. minima, is scarcely larger than a mallard.

Two species: the Common Snow Goose and the mallard size Ross Goose. Both come in blue phases--the Blue Goose (Snow) and the rarer blue phase Ross.

A sea goose--careful of the season usually starts in November and done in December--smaller limits. The Black Brant is the California bird.

This bird is not huntable in California, pending the resolution of a sub-speciation debate.

Currently a Protected Species-regional depredation hunts proposed, but, so far nothing. . .

only one Pacific Coast record: Pt. Arguello, California

British Columbia to Gulf of California; most abundant off Central California

Alaska to Bahia de Todos Santos, northern Baja California

Moolach Beach, Oregon, to Baja California and Gulf of California

Bering Sea and Alaska to central Baja California

Southern California to Strait of Magellan, Chile

Bering Sea and Alaska to Baja California; in shallow waters in northern part of its range, but in deep water from California southward

Rare off California coast; Found well offshore

Baja California south to Isla Galapagos

southern Alaska to Baja California and Gulf of California; to depth of 186 meters in Gulf of California

Central California to Gulf of California and southward, probably to Ecuador and Peru; rare north of Southern California

Bahia Magdalena, southern Baja California, into the Gulf of California and southward to Peru

occasionally off Southern California

southern Baja California into Gulf of California and southward to Peru

only one Pacific Coast record, from Southern California

Southern California and Malpelo Island, Mexico

Southern California

Southern California southward; oceanic, epipelagic

California to Gulf of California

Goose Bay, British Columbia, to Chile

Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska to Gulf of California

Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska to central Baja California

Gulf of Alaska to Gulf of California, mostly shallow coastal waters

British Columbia to Chile

southeastern Alaska to northern Baja California; deep (137-1298 meters)

Cape Blanco, Oregon, southward to Southern California and Gulf of California;deep (180-1888 meters)

Monterey Bay, Central California, to Acapulco, Mexico

Southern Baja California and Gulf of California

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Cape Foulweather, Oregon, to Baja California and Gulf of California

Cape Mendocino, Northern California, to Mazatlan, Mexico

Gulf of California

Coos Bay, Oregon, to Gulf of California

San Diego, California, to Peru

Oregon to Baja California and northern Gulf of California

northern British Columbia to Bahia San Juanico, central Baja California

Southern California; possibly north to southeastern Alaska

Southern California to Peru

Gulf of California and southern Mexico to Peru

Santa Barbara, Southern California, southward

Gulf of California to Ecuador, probably to northern Peru

southen Baja California southward to Peru

San Diego, California, to Peru

southern Baja California southward to Colombia

Gulf of California to southern Mexico

Gulf of California

Southern Baja California southward to Peru

Southern Baja California southward to Colombia

Southern Baja California southward to Peru

San Diego, California, southward

Monterey, Central California, to Gaviota, Southern California and southward

Redondo Beach, Southern California to Gulf of California

southern tip of Baja Peninsula and Revillagigedo Islands

Gulf of California southward to Peru

southern Baja California and Gulf of California to Ecuador

Gulf of Alaska to Chile

There are perhaps a hundred subspecies of cichlids called "tilapia." They are a non-native species, planted in Southern California waters south of the Tehachapi mountains, in the belief that they would not reproduce and/or are escapees from the the six southern California counties licensed for tilapia aquaculture.

Do NOT SHOOT COLORADO RIVER PIKEMINNOWS--they can be quite large--2-3 feet! They are endangered! Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program

watch for closures in the Colorado River drainage. There are several species, the most common is the white sucker, pictured.

there are several chubs--the dimunitive arroyo chub of San Diego, Orange, Santa Ana River drainage possibly upstream to San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Ventura, and Santa Barbara Counties are on a watch list if not listed--Do not shoot.

A non native non-game fish

Fin fish may be taken, too, except for black sea bass, garibaldi, gulf grouper, broomtail grouper, trout, salmon, striped bass, and broadbill swordfish. Check for size restrictions on the different bass, any seasonal restrictions, and remember that archery equipment is not allowed within 100 yards of the mouth of any stream accessing ocean waters north of Ventura County or on any trip pursuing marlin or swordfish.