Minnesota

Endangered, Threatened, and Candidate Species

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This is a list of federally-listed threatened, endangered, proposed, and candidate species in Minnesota.  For the Minnesota state-listed threatened or endangered species, please contact the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

 

Mammals | Birds | Reptiles | Fish | Insects | Plants

 

MAMMALS

Canada lynx
Lynx canadensis
Threatened

Critical Habitat designated

 

Gray wolf (Canis lupus)

Threatened

Critical Habitat designated

 

BIRDS

Bald eagle
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
As of August 9, 2007, the bald eagle is no longer protected under the federal Endangered Species Act and Section 7 consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is no longer necessary. However, the bald eagle remains protected under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. Click here for guidelines that were prepared to help landowners, land managers and others meet the intent of that Act and avoid disturbing bald eagles.

 

Piping plover (Northern Great Plains Breeding Population)
Charadrius melodus
Threatened

 

Piping plover (Great Lakes Breeding Population)
Charadrius melodus
Endangered
Critical Habitat

 

Whooping crane
Grus americanus
Non-essential Experimental Population

 

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REPTILES

Eastern massasauga
Sistrurus catenatus
Candidate

 

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FISH

Topeka shiner
(Notropis topeka)
Endangered and Critical Habitat

 

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CLAMS (Freshwater Mussels)

Higgins eye pearlymussel
Lampsilis higginsii
Endangered

 

Sheepnose
(Plethobasus cyphyus)
Candidate

 

Spectaclecase
(Cumberlandia monodonta)
Candidate

 

Winged mapleleaf
Quadrula fragosa
Endangered

 

INSECTS

Dakota skipper
Hesperia dacotae
Candidate

 

Karner blue butterfly
Lycaeides melissa samuelis
Endangered

 

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PLANTS

Leedy's roseroot
Sedum integrifolium ssp. leedyi
Threatened

 

Minnesota dwarf trout lily
Erythronium propullans
Endangered

 

Prairie bush-clover
Lespedeza leptostachya
Threatened

 

Western prairie fringed orchid
Platanthera praeclara
Threatened

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Last updated: July 28, 2009