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Listed Species in the Upper Midwest

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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

Amphibians

Fish

Clams

Insects

Snails

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
Endangered  

 

Piping plover (Great Plains population)
Charadrius melodus
Threatened

 

REPTILES

Eastern massasauga
Sistrurus catenatus
Candidate

 

AMPHIBIANS

Ozark hellbender
(Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi)
Candidate

 

FISH

Arkansas darter
(Etheostoma cragini)
Candidate

 

Grotto sculpin
(Cottus sp.)
Candidate

 

Neosho madtom
Noturus placidus
Threatened

 

Niangua darter
Etheostoma nianguae
Threatened

 

Ozark cavefish
Amblyopsis rosae
Threatened

 

Pallid sturgeon
Scaphirhynchus albus
Endangered

 

Topeka shiner
Notropis topeka
Endangered

 

INSECTS

Hine's emerald dragonfly
Somatochlora hineana
Endangered

 

CLAMS (Freshwater Mussels, Unionids)

Curtis' pearlymussel
Epioblasma florentina curtisi
Endangered

 

Fat pocketbook
Potamilus capax
Endangered

 

Higgins eye pearlymussel
Lampsilis higginsii
Endangered

 

Neosho mucket
(Lampsilis rafinesqueana)
Candidate

 

Pink mucket pearlymussel
Lampsilis orbiculata (=l. abrupta)
Endangered

 

Scaleshell
Leptodea leptodon
Endangered

 

Sheepnose
(Plethobasus cyphyus)
Candidate

 

Spectaclecase
(Cumberlandia monodonta)
Candidate

 

SNAILS

Tumbling Creek cavesnail
 (Antrobia culveri)
Endangered

 

CRUSTACEANS

cave crayfish, no common name
(Cambarus aculabrum)
Endangered

 

PLANTS

Decurrent false aster
Boltonia decurrens
Threatened

 

Geocarpon (no common name)
Geocarpon minimum
Threatened

 

Mead's milkweed
Asclepias meadii
Threatened

 

Missouri bladder-pod
Lesquerella filiformis
Threatened

 

Pondberry
Lindera melissifolia
Endangered

 

Running buffalo clover
Trifolium stoloniferum
Endangered

 

Virginia sneezeweed
Helenium virginicum
Threatened

 

Western prairie fringed orchid
Platanthera praeclara
Threatened

 

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List Updated August 2007
 
Last updated: April 30, 2008