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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
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 Lakes population)
Charadrius melodus
Endangered
Critical Habitat designated
Whooping
crane
Grus americanus
Non-essential Experimental Population
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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
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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
Rayed
Bean
(Villosa fabalis)
Candidate
Rough pigtoe
Pleurobema plenum
Endangered
Sheepnose
(Plethobasus cyphyus)
Candidate
White cat's paw pearlymussel
Epioblasma obliquata perobliqua
Endangered
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INSECTS
Karner Blue Butterfly
Lycaeides melissa samuelis
Endangered
Mitchell's satyr butterfly
Neonympha mitchellii mitchellii
Endangered
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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
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