#0080 · 🦊 mammals
American Beaver
🇳🇱 Canadese Bever ·Castor canadensis
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what is it?
The North American beaver ( Castor canadensis ) is one of two extant beaver species. g. Finland). In the United States and Canada, the species is often referred to simply as "beaver", though this causes some confusion because another distantly related rodent, Aplodontia rufa , is often called the "mountain beaver". Other vernacular names, including American beaver and Canadian beaver , distinguish this...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 85,928 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Can live up to 15 years.
- Scientifically named by Heinrich Kuhl in 1820 (206 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- American Beaver
- Nederlands
- Canadese Bever
- scientific name
- Castor canadensis
- class
- Mammalia
- order
- Rodentia
- family
- Castoridae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 62
- sightings worldwide
- 85,928
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- 15 years
- named
- 1820 by Heinrich Kuhl
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Castoridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 43794, Wikidata Q81056, GBIF 2439838, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.