Common Name

Scientific Name

Status

Distribution

INSECTS:

Beetle, Puritan tiger

Cicindela puritana

T

Chesapeake Bay beaches with cliffs; Calvert, Kent, and CecilCounties

Beetle, Northeastern beach tiger

Cicindela dorsalis dorsalis

T

Chesapeake Bay beaches; Calvert and Somerset Counties

BIRDS:

Plover, piping

Charadrius melodus

T

Assateague Island, WorcesterCounty

FISH:

Darter, Maryland

Etheostoma sellare

E

HarfordCounty

Sturgeon, shortnose*

Acipenser brevirostrum

E

Chesapeake Bay & tributaries

MAMMALS:

Bat, Indiana

Myotis sodalis

E

Carroll, Garrett, Allegany & Washington Counties

Squirrel, Delmarva fox

Sciurus niger cinereus

E

Dorchester, Talbot, Kent, Queen Anne’s, Somerset, Worcester, Wicomico & CarolineCounties

Whale, finback*

Balaenoptera physalus

E

Oceanic

Whale, humpback*

Megaptera novaeangliae

E

Oceanic

Whale, right*

Eubalaena spp.

E

Oceanic

Whale, sperm*

Physeter catodon

E

Oceanic

MOLLUSKS:

Mussel, dwarf wedge

Alasmidonta heterodon

E

Caroline, Queen Anne’s, St. Mary’s, and CharlesCounties

REPTILES:

Turtle, bog

Clemmys muhlenbergii

T

Carroll, Cecil, Baltimore, and HarfordCounties

Turtle, green*

Chelonia mydas

T

Oceanic; summer visitor coastal waters

Turtle, hawksbill*

Eretmochelys imbricata

E

Oceanic; summer visitor coastal waters

Turtle, leatherback*

Dermochelys coriacea

E

Oceanic; summer visitor coastal waters

Turtle, loggerhead*

Caretta caretta

T

Oceanic; summer visitor coastal waters and Chesapeake Bay

Turtle, Atlantic ridley*

Lepidochelys kempi

E

Oceanic; summer visitor coastal waters and Chesapeake Bay

PLANTS:

Bulrush, Northeastern

Scirpus ancistrochaetus

E

WashingtonCounty

Dropwort, Canby’s

Oxypolis canbyi

E

Queen Anne’s County

Gerardia, sandplain

Agalinis acuta

E

BaltimoreCounty

Harperella

Ptilimnium nodosum

E

Allegany and WashingtonCounties

Joint-vetch, sensitive

Aeschynomene virginica

T

Somerset, Calvert, Charles, and Prince George’s Counties

Pigweed, seabeach

Amaranthus pumilus

T

Atlantic coastal beaches, WorcesterCounty

Pink, swamp

Helonius bullata

T

Anne Arundel, Cecil, and DorchesterCounties