Illinois

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

 

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

 

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MAMMALS

Gray bat
Myotis grisescens
Endangered

 

Indiana bat
Myotis sodalis
Endangered

 

BIRDS

Least tern (Interior population)
Sterna antillarum
Endangered  

 

Piping plover (Great Lakes population)
Charadrius melodus
Endangered
Critical Habitat designated

 

Whooping crane
Grus americana
non-essential, experimental population

 

REPTILES

Eastern Massasauga
Sistrurus catenatus
Candidate

 

FISH

Pallid sturgeon
Scaphirhynchus albus
Endangered

 

CLAMS (Freshwater Mussels, Unionids)

Clubshell
Pleurobema clava
Endangered

 

Fanshell
Cyprogenia stegaria (=c. irrorata)
Endangered

 

Fat pocketbook
Potamilus capax
Endangered

 

Higgins eye pearlymussel
Lampsilis higginsii
Endangered

 

Orange-footed pimpleback pearlymussel
Plethobasus cooperianus (=p. striatus)
Endangered

 

Pink mucket pearlymussel
Lampsilis orbiculata (=l. abrupta)
Endangered

 

Sheepnose
(Plethobasus cyphyus)
Candidate

 

Spectaclecase
(Cumberlandia monodonta)
Candidate

 

SNAILS

Iowa Pleistocene snail
Discus macclintocki
Endangered

 

INSECTS

Hine's emerald dragonfly
Somatochlora hineana
Endangered

 

Karner Blue Butterfly
Lycaeides melissa samuelis
Endangered

 

CRUSTACEANS

Illinois cave amphipod
Gammarus acherondytes
Endangered

 

PLANTS

Decurrent false aster
Boltonia decurrens
Threatened

 

Eastern prairie fringed orchid
Platanthera leucophaea
Threatened

 

Lakeside daisy
Hymenoxys herbacea (=H. acaulis var. glabra)
Threatened

 

Leafy prairie-clover
Dalea foliosa
Endangered

 

Mead's milkweed
Asclepias meadii
Threatened

 

Pitcher's thistle
Cirsium pitcheri
Threatened

 

Prairie bush-clover
Lespedeza leptostachya
Threatened

 

Price's potato-bean
Apios priceana
Threatened

 

Small whorled pogonia
Isotria medeoloides
Threatened

 

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Updated September 2007