Missouri
Endangered, Threatened, and Candidate Species
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These
are federally-listed threatened or endangered species
in Missouri. For the Missouri state-listed
threatened or endangered species, please contact the Missouri
Department of Conservation.
For more information
about threatened and endangered species in Missouri, please contact
the
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service office
at 101 Park DeVille Drive, Suite A, Columbia, Missouri 65203
or phone (573/234-2132)
Mammals | Birds | Reptiles | Fish |Clams | Snails | Insects | Crustaceans | Plants
MAMMALS
Gray bat (Myotis grisescens)
Endangered
Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis)
Endangered
Ozark big-eared bat (Plecotus townsendii ingens)
Endangered
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.
Least tern - Interior population (Sterna antillarum)
Status: Endangered
Piping plover - Great Plains population (Charadrius melodus)
Status: Threatened
Red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis)
Status: Endangered
REPTILES
Eastern massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus)
Status: Candidate
AMPHIBIANS
Ozark
hellbender
(Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi)
Status: Candidate
FISH
Arkansas
darter (Etheostoma cragini)
Status: Candidate
Grotto
sculpin (Cottus
sp.)
Status: Candidate
Neosho madtom (Noturus placidus)
Status: Threatened
Niangua darter (Etheostoma nianguae)
Status:Threatened
Ozark cavefish (Amblyopsis rosae)
Status: Threatened
Pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus)
Status: Endangered
Topeka shiner (Notropis topeka)
Status: Endangered
INSECTS
American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus)
Status: Endangered
Hine's emerald dragonfly (Somatochlora hineana)
Status: Endangered
CLAMS
(Freshwater Mussels, Unionids)
Curtis' pearlymussel (Epioblasma florentina curtisi)
Status: Endangered
Fat pocketbook (Potamilus capax)
Status: Endangered
Higgins eye pearlymussel (Lampsilis higginsii)
Status: Endangered
Neosho
mucket (Lampsilis rafinesqueana)
Status: Candidate
Pink mucket pearlymussel (Lampsilis orbiculata (=l. abrupta))
Status: Endangered
Rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica)
Status: Candidate
Scaleshell (Leptodea leptodon)
Status: Endangered
Sheepnose (Plethobasus cyphyus)
Status: Candidate
Spectaclecase (Cumberlandia monodonta)
Status: Candidate
SNAILS
Tumbling
Creek cavesnail (Antrobia culveri)
Status: Endangered
CRUSTACEANS
cave
crayfish, no common name
(Cambarus aculabrum)
Status: Endangered
PLANTS
Decurrent false aster (Boltonia decurrens)
Status: Threatened
Geocarpon (no common name) (Geocarpon minimum)
Status: Threatened
Mead's milkweed (Asclepias meadii)
Status: Threatened
Missouri bladder-pod (Lesquerella filiformis)
Status: Threatened
Pondberry (Lindera melissifolia)
Status: Endangered
Running buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum)
Status: Endangered
Small whorled pogonia (Isotria medeoloides)
Status: Threatened
Virginia
sneezeweed (Helenium virginicum)
Status: Threatened
Western prairie fringed orchid (Platanthera praeclara)
Status: Threatened
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