Missouri

Birds

Least Tern (interior population)
(Sterna antillarum)

Endangered

Bare alluvial deposits

Cape Girardeau, Chariton, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Perry, Scott, St. Charles

Piping plover
(Charadrius melodus)
Northern Great Plains Breeding Population

Threatened

Riverine sandbars

Red-cockaded woodpecker

(Picoides borealis)

Endangered

Longleaf pine forest

Shannon

Mammals

Gray bat
(Myotis grisescens)

Endangered

Caves

Barry, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Camden, Carter, Cedar, Christian, Cole, Crawford, Dade, Dallas, Dent, Douglass, Franklin, Gasconade, Greene, Henry, Hickory, Howard, Howell, Iron, Jasper, Jefferson, Laclede, Lawrence, Madison, Maries, McDonald, Miller, Morgan, Newton, Oregon, Osage, Ozark, Phelps, Pike, Pulaski, Ralls, Reynolds, Ripley, St. Clair, St. Louis, Shannon, Stone, Taney, Texas, Washington, Wayne, Wright

Indiana bat
(Myotis sodalis)

Endangered

Hibernacula = Caves and mines;
Maternity and foraging habitat = small stream corridors with well developed riparian woods; upland forests

Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Audrain, Barry, Boone, Buchanan, Caldwell, Callaway, Camden, Carroll, Chariton, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Cooper, Crawford, Daviess, DeKalb, Dent, Franklin, Gasconade, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Henry, Holt, Howard, Iron, Jefferson, Knox, Laclede, Lewis, Lincoln, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Madison, Marion, McDonald, Mercer, Mississippi, Monroe, Montgomery, Nodaway, Oregon, Phelps, Pike, Platte, Pulaski, Putnam, Ralls, Randolph, Ray, St. Charles, St. Francois, St. Genevieve, St. Louis, Schuyler, Scotland, Shelby, Shannon, Stone, Sullivan, Taney, Texas, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Worth, Wright

Indiana Bat

Critical Habitat Designated

Crawford, Franklin, Iron, Shannon, Washington

Ozark big-eared bat
(Plecotus townsendii ingens)

Endangered

Caves in limestone karst regions dominated by mature hardwood forest

Barry, Stone

Eastern Massasauga
(Sistrurus catenatus catenatus)

Candidate

Chariton, Holt, Jackson, Linn, Nodaway, Platte, St. Charles, St. Louis, Saline

Ozark hellbender
(Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi)

Candidate

Carter, Dent, Douglass, Howell, Ozark, Oregon, Reynolds, Ripley, Shannon, Texas, Wright

Fish

Arkansas darter
(Etheostoma cragini)

Candidate

Rivers

Barry, Barton, Jasper, Newton, Dade, Lawrence

Grotto sculpin
(Cottus sp.)

Candidate

Cave streams

Perry

Neosho madtom
(Noturus placidus)

Threatened

Rivers

Jasper

Niangua darter
(Etheostoma nianguae)

Threatened

Rivers

Benton, Camden, Cedar, Dallas, Greene, Hickory, Maries, Miller, Osage, St. Clair, Webster

Niangua darter
(Etheostoma nianguae)

Critical Habitat

Camden, Cedar, Dallas, Greene, Hickory, Miller, St. Clair

Ozark cavefish
(Amblyopsis rosae)

Threatened

Caves in the Boone and Burlington limestone formations of the Ozark Mountains

Barry, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton, Stone

Pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus)

Endangered

Mississippi and Missouri Rivers

Andrew, Atchison, Boone, Buchanan, Callaway,
Cape Girardeau, Carroll, Chariton, Clay, Cole, Cooper, Franklin, Gasconade, Holt, Howard, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lewis, Livingston, Mississippi, Moniteau, Montgomery, New Madrid, Osage, Pemiscot, Perry, Platte, Polk, Ray, St. Charles, St. Genevieve, St. Louis, Saline, Warren

Topeka shiner
(Notropis topeka)

Endangered

Small prairie (or former prairie) streams in pools containing clear, clean water. Most Topeka shiner streams are perennial (flow year-round), but some are small enough to stop flowing during dry summer months. In these circumstances, water levels must be maintained by groundwater seepage for the fish to survive. Topeka shiner streams generally have clean gravel, rock, or sand bottoms.

Boone, Caldwell, Callaway, Clark, Cooper, Daviess, Dekalb, Grundy, Harrison, Mercer, Moniteau, Morgan, Pettis, Putnam, Randolph, Ray, Schuyler

Insects

American burying beetle

(Nicrophorus americanus)

Endangered

Newton

Hine's emerald dragonfly
(Somatochlora hineana)

Endangered

Streams and associated wetlands overlying dolomite bedrock

Crawford, Dent, Iron, Morgan, Phelps, Reynolds, Ripley, St. Francis, Shannon, Washington, Wayne

Mussels

Curtis' pearlymussel
(Epioblasma forentina curtisi)

Endangered

Little Black River

Bollinger, Butler, Ripley, Wayne

Fat pocketbook
(Potamilus capax)

Endangered

Rivers

Clark, Dunklin, Marion, Mississippi, Pike, Ralls

Higgins eye pearlymussel
(Lampsilis higginsii)

Endangered

Mississippi River

Maries, Marion

Neosho mucket
(Lampsilis rafinesqueana)

Candidate

Rivers

Barry, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton

Pink mucket
(Lampsilis abrupta)

Endangered

Rivers

Butler, Cedar, Cole, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson, Miller, Osage, Ripley, St. Clair, St. Louis, Wayne

Scaleshell
(Leptodea leptodon)

Endangered

Big, Big Piney, Bourbeuse, Gasconade, and Meramec Rivers

Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson, Laclede, Maries, Osage, Pulaski, St. Louis, Wright

Sheepnose
(Plethobasus cyphyus)

Candidate

Bourbeuse, Gasconade (Osage Fork), Meramec, and Mississippi Rivers

Crawford, Franklin, Jefferson, Laclede, Marion, Ralls, St. Louis

Spectaclecase (Cumberlandia monodonta)

Candidate

Big, Big Piney, Bourbeuse, Gasconade, Meramec, and Mississippi Rivers

Cedar, Cole, Crawford, Franklin, Gasconade, Jefferson, Laclede, Lincoln, Maries, Marion, Miller, Osage, Phelps, Pike, Pulaski, Ralls, St. Clair, St. Louis, Texas

Winged mapleleaf
(Quadrula frugosa)

Endangered

Medium to large rivers in mud, sand, or gravel

Franklin

Snail

Tumbling Creek cave snail
(Antrobia culveri)

Endangered

Cave stream

Taney

Crustacean

cave crayfish, no common name
(Cambarus aculabrum)

Endangered

Cave

Plants

Decurrent false aster
(Boltonia decurrens)

Threatened

Disturbed alluvial soils

Cape Girardeau, Dunklin, Franklin, Howell, Lincoln, Mississippi, Pike, St. Charles, St. Louis

Geocarpon
(Geocarpon minimum)

Threatened

Moist soils in exposed sandstone glades

Cedar, Dade, Greene, Henry, Jasper, Lawrence, Polk, St. Clair

Mead's milkweed
(Asclepias meadii)

Threatened

Virgin prairies

Adair, Barton, Benton, Cass, Cedar, Dade, Harrison, Henry, Iron, Johnson, Pettis, Polk, Reynolds, St. Clair, St. Louis, Scotland, Vernon

Missouri bladderpod (Lesquerella filiformis)

Threatened

Open glades in shallow limestone soils

Christian, Dade, Greene, Lawrence

Pondberry
(Lindera milissifolium)

Endangered

Bottomland hardwood forest

Butler, Ripley

Running buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum)

Endangered

Disturbed bottomland meadows

Barry, Benton, Boone, Callaway, Carter, Cedar, Christian, Cole, Cooper, Crawford, Dade, Dent, Dunklin, Howard, Jasper, Laclede, Lincoln, Madison, Maries, Moniteau, Montgomery, Ozark, Phelps, St. Charles, St. Louis, Taney, Texas, Vernon, Wayne

Small whorled pogonia

(Isotria medeoloides)

Threatened

Bollinger

Virginia sneezeweed
(Helenium virginicum)

Threatened

Sinkhole ponds under stressed conditions (i.e., variable hydroperiod, low pH soils, high levels of aluminum and arsenic, low levels of macronutrients and boron)

Boone, Cape Girardeau, Howell, Shannon, Texas, Webster, Wright

Western prairie fringed orchid
(Platanthera praeclara)

Threatened

Wet prairies & sedge meadows

Atchison, Carter, Greene, Harrison, Holt, Jackson, Jasper, Johnson, Lawrence, Ralls, Vernon