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)
Endangered
Rough pigtoe (Pleurobema plenum)
Endangered
Sheepnose (Plethobasus cyphyus)
Endangered
Snuffbox (Epioblasma triquetra)
Endangered
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
List Revised March 2012
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