Indiana

Endangered, Threatened, and Candidate Species

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For more information on Indiana's federally listed species, contact the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 620 S. Walker St., Bloomington, Indiana 47403-2121 or phone (812)334-4261

 

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

 

Mammals | Birds | Reptiles | Clams | Insects |Plants

 

 

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 americanus)
Non-essential Experimental Population

 

REPTILES

Copperbelly water snake (Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta)
Threatened in northern part of its range (north of 40 degrees north latitude, roughly Indianapolis). It is not listed in the southern part of its range.

 

Eastern Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus)
Candidate

 

CLAMS (Freshwater Mussels, Unionids)

Clubshell (Pleurobema clava)
Endangered

 

Fanshell (Cyprogenia stegaria (=c. irrorata))
Endangered

 

Fat pocketbook (Potamilus capax)
Endangered

 

Northern riffleshell (Epioblasma torulosa rangiana)
Endangered

 

Rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica)

Candidate

 

Rayed Bean (Villosa fabalis)
Candidate

 

Rough pigtoe (Pleurobema plenum)
Endangered

 

Sheepnose (Plethobasus cyphyus)
Candidate

 

White cat's paw pearlymussel (Epioblasma obliquata perobliqua)
Endangered

 

INSECTS

Karner Blue Butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis)
Endangered

 

Mitchell's satyr butterfly (Neonympha mitchellii mitchellii_
Endangered

 

PLANTS

Eastern prairie fringed orchid (Plantathera leucophaea)
Threatened

 

Mead's milkweed (Asclepias meadii)
Threatened

 

Pitcher's thistle (Cirsium pitcheri)
Threatened

 

Running buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum)
Endangered

 

Short's bladderpod (Lesquerella globosa)
Candidate

 

Short's goldenrod (Solidago shortii)
Endangered

 

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Last updated: November 9, 2009