| Species |
Status |
Counties |
Habitat |
|
MAMMALS |
|
|
|
Gray bat
(Myotis grisescens)
|
Endangered |
Clark,
Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Perry, Spencer |
Caves |
Indiana bat
(Myotis sodalis)
|
Endangered |
Statewide
CRITICAL HABITAT: Big Wyandotte Cave (Crawford County), Ray's
Cave (Greene County)
|
Hibernacula
= Caves and mines;
Maternity and foraging habitat = small stream corridors with well
developed riparian woods; upland forests
|
|
BIRDS |
|
|
|
Least tern
(Sterna antillarum) |
Endangered |
Gibson |
|
Piping plover
(Charadrius melodus) |
Critical
Habitat Designated |
Porter
- 7.9 km of Lake Michigan shoreline (5 km are part of Indiana Dunes
State Park and the remainng 2.9 km are part of Indiana Dunes National
Lakeshore) No recent records |
|
REPTILES |
|
|
|
Copperbelly water snake
(Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta) |
Threatened |
Kosciusko,
St. Joseph, Steuben |
Wooded
and permanently wet areas such as oxbows, sloughs, brushy ditches
and floodplain woods |
Eastern
massasauga
(Sistrurus c. catenatus) |
Candidate |
Allen,
Carroll, Elkhart, Kosciuscko, Lagrange, LaPorte, Marshall, Noble, Porter,
Pulaski, St. Joseph, Steuban, Tippecanoe |
|
MUSSELS |
|
|
|
Clubshell
(Pleurobema clava) |
Endangered |
Carroll, Dekalb, Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Pulaski, Tippecanoe, White |
Rivers |
Fanshell
(Cyprogenia stegaria) |
Endangered |
Carroll,
Daviess, Lawrence, Martin, Pike, Tippecanoe, Wabash, White |
Rivers |
Fat pocketbook
(Potamilus capax) |
Endangered |
Gibson,
Knox, and Posey |
Rivers |
Northern riffleshell
(Epioblasma torulosa rangiana) |
Endangered |
Dekalb,
Pulaski |
Rivers |
Rayed
Bean
(Villosa fabalis) |
Candidate |
Allen,
Dekalb, Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Parke |
St.
Joseph and Tippecanoe Rivers, Sugar Creek, Lake Maxinkuckee |
Rough pigtoe
(Pleurobema plenum) |
Endangered |
Martin |
Rivers |
Sheepnose (Plethobasus cyphyus) |
Candidate |
Carroll,
Cass, Clark, Floyd, Fulton, Pulaski, Spencer, Tippecanoe, Vanderburgh,
Warrick, White |
Eel,
Ohio, Tippecanoe, and Wabash Rivers |
White cat's paw pearlymussel
(Epioblasma obliquata perobliqua) |
Endangered |
Dekalb |
Rivers |
INSECTS |
|
|
|
Mitchell's satyr
(Neonympha mitchellii) |
Endangered |
LaGrange,
LaPorte |
Fens |
Karner blue butterfly
(Lycaeides melissa samuelis) |
Endangered |
Lake,
Porter |
Pine
barrens and oak savannas on sandy soils and containing wild lupines (Lupinus perennis), the only known food plant of larvae. |
PLANTS |
|
|
|
Eastern
prairie fringed orchid
(Plantathera leucophaea) |
Threatened |
White |
Mesic
to wet prairies and meadows |
Mead's milkweed |
Threatened |
Lake |
Prairies |
Pitcher's thistle
(Cirsium pitcheri) |
Threatened |
Lake,
Porter |
Lakeshores;
stabilized dunes and blowout areas |
Running buffalo clover
(Trifolium stoloniferum) |
Endangered |
Dearborn,
Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland |
Disturbed
bottomland meadows |
Short's
bladderpod
(Lesquerella
globosa) |
Candidate |
Posey |
|
Short's
goldenrod
(Solidago shortii) |
Endangered |
Harrison |
|
