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Revised September 2007
Species names are linked to additional information
| Species |
Status |
Counties |
Habitat |
Mammals |
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Indiana
bat
(Myotis sodalis) |
Endangered |
POTENTIAL OCCURRENCE IN COUNITES SOUTH OF HIGHWAY 80; KNOWN OCCURRENCES IN:
Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry, Iowa, Jasper, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Louisa, Lucas, Madison, Mahaska, Marion, Monroe, Muscatine, Poweshiek, Ringgold, Van Buren, Wapello, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Union |
Caves, mines (hibernacula);
small stream corridors with well developed riparian woods; upland forests
(foraging) |
|
Birds |
|
|
|
Least Tern
(Sterna antillarum) |
Endangered |
Pottawattamie, Woodbury, Polk |
Bare alluvial and dredged spoil
islands |
Piping
Plover
(Charadrius melodus)
Great Plains Population |
Threatened |
Pottawattamie, Woodbury |
|
| Reptiles |
|
|
|
Eastern Massasauga
(Sistrurus catenatus) |
Candidate |
Muscatine, Johnson, Mills, Bremer, Pottawattamie, Louisa |
|
Fish |
|
|
|
Pallid Sturgeon
(Scaphirynchus albus) |
Endangered |
Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Monona, Pottawattamie, Woodbury |
Large rivers |
Topeka shiner
(Notropis topeka) |
Endangered |
Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Dallas, Greene, Hamilton, Humboldt, Kossuth, Lyon, Osceola, Sac, Webster, Wright |
Prairie streams and rivers |
Mussels |
|
|
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Higgins eye pearlymussel
(Lampsilis higginsi) |
Endangered |
Allamakee, Clayton, Clinton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Jackson, Louisa, Muscatine, Scott |
Mississippi River |
Sheepnose
(Plethobasus cyphyus) |
Candidate |
Allamakee, Clarke, Clayton, Des Moines, Dickinson, Jackson, Johnson, Lee, Louisa, Lucas, Muscatine, Polk, Scott |
Rivers |
Spectaclecase
(Cumberlandia monodonta)
|
Candidate |
Clayton, Des Moines, Dubuque, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine, Scott, |
Rivers |
| Snails |
|
|
|
Iowa pleistocene
snail
(Discus macclintocki) |
Endangered |
Clayton, Clinton, Dubuque, Fayette, Jackson |
North-facing algific talus slopes of the driftless area |
Insects |
|
|
|
Dakota skipper
(Hesperia dacotae) |
Candidate |
Dickinson |
Prairies |
Plants |
|
|
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Eastern prairie
fringed orchid
(Platanthaera leucophaea) |
Threatened |
Decatur, Jackson, Johnson, Jones |
Mesic to wet prairies |
Mead's
milkweed
(Asclepias meadii) |
Threatened |
Adair, Clarke, Decatur, Ringgold, Warren |
Virgin prairies |
Prairie
bush clover
(Lespedeza leptostachya) |
Threatened |
POTENTIAL HABITAT STATEWIDE; KNOWN OCCURRENCES IN:
Buena Vista, Butler, Clarke, Clay, Delaware, Dickinson, Emmet, Howard, Kossuth, Lucas, Obrien, Osceola, Story, Warren, Winneshiek |
Dry to mesic prairies with gravelly soil |
Northern wild monkshood
(Aconitum noveboracense) |
Threatened |
Allamakee, Clayton, Delaware, Dubuque, Hardin, Jackson, |
|
Western prairie fringed orchid
(Platanthera praeclara) |
Threatened |
POTENTIAL HABITAT STATEWIDE; KNOWN OCCURRENCES IN:
Adair, Bremer, Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Fayette, Guthrie, Howard, Kossuth, Mills, Pocahontas, Polk, Taylor |
Wet
prairies and sedge meadows |
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