Flora

• Club-mosses and mosses of Montana
  • There are at least 23 species of Club-moss
    Lycopodiopsida
    Lycopodiopsida is a class of plants often loosely grouped as the fern allies. Traditionally the group included not only the clubmosses and firmosses, but also the spikemosses and the quillworts...
    
    es and 153 species of Moss
    Moss
    Mosses are small, soft plants that are typically 1–10 cm tall, though some species are much larger. They commonly grow close together in clumps or mats in damp or shady locations. They do not have flowers or seeds, and their simple leaves cover the thin wiry stems...
    
    es found in Montana.,
• Coniferous plants of Montana
  • There are at least 20 species of Gymnosperms or Coniferous plants in Montana.
• Ferns of Montana
• Horsetails of Montana
• Lichens of Montana
  Lichens of Montana
  There are at least 41 species of Lichens, Ascomycota known to exist in Montana. The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks has identified a number of lichen species as Species of Concern....
  
  
  • There are at least 41 species of lichens, Ascomycota
    Ascomycota
    The Ascomycota are a Division/Phylum of the kingdom Fungi, and subkingdom Dikarya. Its members are commonly known as the Sac fungi. They are the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 64,000 species...
    
    known to exist in Montana.
• Dicotyledons of Montana
  • There are at least 2109 species of dicotyledons found in Montana according to the Montana Field Guide.
• Monocotyledons of Montana
  • There are at least 615 species of Monocotyledon
    Monocotyledon
    Monocotyledons, also known as monocots, are one of two major groups of flowering plants that are traditionally recognized, the other being dicotyledons, or dicots. Monocot seedlings typically have one cotyledon , in contrast to the two cotyledons typical of dicots...
    
    s found in Montana.

Fauna

• Amphibians and Reptiles of Montana
  • Montana is home to 14 amphibian
    Amphibian
    Amphibians , are a class of vertebrate animals including animals such as toads, frogs, caecilians, and salamanders. They are characterized as non-amniote ectothermic tetrapods...
    
     species and 20 species of reptiles.
• Birds of Montana
  • There are at least 427 species of birds found in Montana.
• Molluscs of Montana
  • There are at least 42 species of freshwater bivalve
    Freshwater bivalve
    Freshwater bivalves are one kind of freshwater molluscs. They are bivalves which live in freshwater, as opposed to saltwater. Although the majority of species of bivalve molluscs live in the sea, a number of different families of bivalves live in freshwater...
    
    s (clams
    CLaMS
    CLaMS is a modular chemistry transport model system developed at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. CLaMS was first described by McKenna et al. and was expanded into three dimensions by Konopka et al....
    
     and mussels) known in Montana. There are also at least 155 species of gastropods found in Montana.
• Crustaceans of Montana
  Crustaceans of Montana
  There are at least 30 species of crustaceans found in Montana. The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks has identified a number of crustacean species as Species of Concern.-Crustaceans:...
  
  
  • There are at least 30 species of crustacean
    Crustacean
    Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...
    
    s found in Montana.
• Fish of Montana
  Fish of Montana
  There are at least 31 game and 59 non-game fish species known to occur in Montana.. Among Montana's fish, three are listed as endangered or threatened species and the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks lists a number of species as Species of Concern.Species are listed by common name,...
  
  
  • There are at least 31 game
    Game fish
    Game fish are fish pursued for sport by recreational anglers. They can be freshwater or marine fish. Game fish can be eaten after being caught, though increasingly anglers practise catch and release to improve fish populations. Some game fish are also targeted commercially, particularly...
    
     and 59 non-game fish
    Fish
    Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
    
     species known to occur in Montana..
• Flatworms and leeches of Montana
• Insects of Montana
• Mammals of Montana
  Mammals of Montana
  There are at least 19 Large Mammal and 96 Small Mammal species known to occur in Montana.. Among Montana's mammals, three are listed as endangered or threatened species and the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks lists a number of species as Species of Concern.Species are listed by...
  
  
  • There are at least 19 large mammal
    Mammal
    Mammals are members of a class of air-breathing vertebrate animals characterised by the possession of endothermy, hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands functional in mothers with young...
    
     and 96 small mammal species known to occur in Montana..
• Millipedes of Montana