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Endangered Species in Missouri
Federally-Listed Threatened, Endangered, Proposed, and Candidate Species County Distribution

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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.

 

Species

Status

Habitat

Current Distribution

Birds

   

Least Tern (interior population)
(Sterna antillarum)

Endangered

Bare alluvial deposits

Cape Girardeau, Chariton, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Perry

Piping plover
(Charadrius melodus)
Northern Great Plains Breeding Population

Threatened

Riverine sandbars

Mammals

Gray bat
(Myotis grisescens)

Endangered

Caves

Barry, Benton, Boone, Camden, Carter, Christian, Cole, Crawford, Dade, Dallas, Dent, Douglass, Franklin, Greene, Hickory, Iron, Jasper, Jefferson, Laclede, Lawrence, Maries, McDonald, Miller, Morgan, Newton, Oregon, Osage, Ozark, Phelps, Pike, Pulaski, Ralls, Reynolds,
St. Louis, Shannon, Stone, Taney, Texas, Washington, Wright

Indiana bat
(Myotis sodalis)

Endangered

Hibernacula = Caves and mines;
Maternity and foraging habitat = small stream corridors with well developed riparian woods; upland forests

Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Audrain, Boone, Buchanan, Caldwell, Callaway, Camden, Carroll, Chariton, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Cooper, Crawford, Daviess, DeKalb, Franklin, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Henry, Holt, Howard, Iron, Jefferson, Knox, Laclede, Lewis, Lincoln, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Madison, Marion, Mercer, Mississippi, Monroe, Montgomery, Nodaway, Oregon, Phelps, Pike, Platte, Pulaski, Putnam, Ralls, Randolph, Ray, St. Charles, St. Francois, St. Louis, Schuyler, Scotland, Shelby, Shannon, Stone, Sullivan, Taney, Texas, Warren, Washington, Worth, Wright

Ozark big-eared bat
(Plecotus townsendii ingens)

Endangered

Caves in limestone karst regions dominated by mature hardwood forest

Reptile      
Eastern Massasauga
(Sistrurus catenatus catenatus)
Candidate   Chariton, Holt, Jackson, Linn, Platte, St. Charles, Saline
Amphibian      
Ozark hellbender
(Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi)
Candidate   Carter, Dent, Douglass, Howell, Ozark, Oregon, Reynolds, Ripley, Shannon, Texas, Wright

Fish

Arkansas darter
(Etheostoma cragini)

Candidate Rivers Barry, Barton, Jasper, Newton, Dade, Lawrence

Grotto sculpin
(Cottus sp.)

Candidate Cave streams Perry

Neosho madtom
(Noturus placidus)

Threatened

Rivers

Jasper

Niangua darter
(Etheostoma nianguae)

Threatened

Rivers

Benton, Camden, Cedar, Dallas, Greene, Hickory, Miller, Osage, St. Clair, Webster

Niangua darter
(Etheostoma nianguae)
Critical Habitat   Camden, Cedar, Dallas, Greene, Hickory, Miller, St. Clair

Ozark cavefish
(Amblyopsis rosae)

Threatened

Caves in the Boone and Burlington limestone formations of the Ozark Mountains

Barry, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton, Stone

Pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus)

Endangered

Mississippi and Missouri Rivers

Andrew, Atchison, Boone, Buchanan, Callaway,
Cape Girardeau, Chariton, Clay, Cole, Cooper, Franklin, Gasconade, Holt, Howard, Jackson, Lafayette, Lewis, Livingston, Mississippi, Moniteau, Montgomery, New Madrid, Osage, Pemiscot, Perry, Platte, Polk, Ray, St. Charles, St. Genevieve, St. Louis, Saline, Warren

Topeka shiner
(Notropis topeka)

Endangered

Small prairie (or former prairie) streams in pools containing clear, clean water. Most Topeka shiner streams are perennial (flow year-round), but some are small enough to stop flowing during dry summer months. In these circumstances, water levels must be maintained by groundwater seepage for the fish to survive. Topeka shiner streams generally have clean gravel, rock, or sand bottoms.

Boone, Clark, Cooper, Daviess, Grundy, Harrison, Moniteau, Pettis, Putnam

Insects

   

Hine's emerald dragonfly
(Somatochlora hineana)

Endangered

Streams and associated wetlands overlying dolomite bedrock

Dent, Iron, Phelps, Reynolds, Ripley, Shannon, Wayne

Mussels

Curtis' pearlymussel
(Epioblasma forentina curtisi)

Endangered

Little Black River

Bollinger, Butler, Ripley, Wayne

Fat pocketbook
(Potamilus capax)

Endangered

Rivers

Clark, Dunklin, Marion, Mississippi, Pike, Ralls

Higgins eye pearlymussel
(Lampsilis higginsii)

Endangered

Mississippi River

Maries, Marion

Neosho mucket
(Lampsilis rafinesqueana)
Candidate Rivers Barry, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton

Pink mucket
(Lampsilis abrupta)

Endangered

Rivers

Butler, Cedar, Cole, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson, Miller, Osage, Ripley, St. Clair, St. Louis, Wayne

Scaleshell
(Leptodea leptodon)

Endangered

Big, Big Piney, Bourbeuse, Gasconade, and Meramec Rivers

Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson, Laclede, Maries, Osage, Pulaski, St. Louis, Wright

Sheepnose
(Plethobasus cyphyus)
Candidate Bourbeuse, Gasconade (Osage Fork), Meramec, and Mississippi Rivers

Crawford, Franklin, Jefferson, Laclede, Marion

Spectaclecase (Cumberlandia monodonta)

Candidate

Big, Big Piney, Bourbeuse, Gasconade, Meramec, and Mississippi Rivers

Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson, Laclede, Lincoln, Maries, Marion, Osage, Phelps, Pike, Pulaski, Ralls, St. Louis

Winged mapleleaf
(Quadrula frugosa)

Endangered

Medium to large rivers in mud, sand, or gravel

Franklin

Snail      
Tumbling Creek cave snail
(Antrobia culveri)
Endangered Cave stream Taney
Crustacean
cave crayfish, no common name
(Cambarus aculabrum)
Endangered Cave  

Plants

Decurrent false aster
(Boltonia decurrens)

Threatened

Disturbed alluvial soils

Dunklin, Franklin, Howell, Mississippi, Pike, St. Charles

Geocarpon
(Geocarpon minimum)

Threatened

Moist soils in exposed sandstone glades

Cedar, Dade, Greene, Henry, Lawrence, Polk, St. Clair

Mead's milkweed
(Asclepias meadii)

Threatened

Virgin prairies

Adair, Barton, Benton, Cass, Cedar, Dade, Harrison, Henry, Iron, Pettis, Polk, Reynolds, St. Clair, Vernon

Missouri bladderpod (Lesquerella filiformis)

Threatened

Open glades in shallow limestone soils

Christian, Dade, Greene, Lawrence

Pondberry
(Lindera milissifolium)

Endangered

Bottomland hardwood forest

Butler, Ripley

Running buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum)

Endangered

Disturbed bottomland meadows

Barry, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Carter, Cedar, Christian, Cole, Crawford, Dade, Dent, Dunklin, Howard, Laclede, Madison, Maries, Moniteau, Ozark, Phelps, St. Charles, St. Louis, Taney, Texas, Vernon, Wayne

Virginia sneezeweed
(Helenium virginicum)

Threatened

Sinkhole ponds under stressed conditions (i.e., variable hydroperiod, low pH soils, high levels of aluminum and arsenic, low levels of macronutrients and boron)

Howell, Shannon

Western prairie fringed orchid
(Platanthera praeclara)

Threatened

Wet prairies & sedge meadows

Atchison, Harrison, Holt

 

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Page revised February 11, 2008


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