Iowa

Endangered, Threatened, and Candidate Species

 

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This is a list of federally threatened or endangered species in Iowa.  For the Iowa state listed threatened or endangered species, please contact the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.

 

Mammals | Birds | Reptiles | Fish | Clams | Snails | Insects | Plants

 

 

MAMMALS

Indiana bat
Myotis sodalis
Endangered

 

BIRDS

Least tern (Interior population)
Sterna antillarum
Endangered  

 

Piping plover
Charadrius melodus
Threatened

 

Whooping crane
Grus americanus
Non-essential Experimental Population

 

REPTILES

Eastern Massasauga
Sistrurus catenatus
Candidate

 

FISH

Pallid sturgeon
Scaphirhynchus albus
Endangered

 

Topeka shiner
Notropis topeka
Endangered

 

CLAMS (Freshwater Mussels, Unionids)

Higgins eye pearlymussel
Lampsilis higginsii
Endangered

 

Sheepnose
(Plethobasus cyphyus)
Candidate

 

Spectaclecase
(Cumberlandia monodonta)
Candidate

 

SNAILS

Iowa Pleistocene snail
Discus macclintocki
Endangered

 

INSECTS

Dakota skipper
(Hesperia dacotae)
Candidate

 

PLANTS

Eastern prairie fringed orchid
Platanthera leucophaea
Threatened

 

Mead's milkweed
Asclepias meadii
Threatened

 

Northern wild monkshood
Aconitum noveboracense
Threatened

 

Prairie bush-clover
Lespedeza leptostachya
Threatened

 

Western prairie fringed orchid
Platanthera praeclara
Threatened

 

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List Updated August 2007

 

Last updated: July 28, 2009