North Florida Federally-Listed Species

Species are listed as they occur within our Service field office area of responsibility.
* indicates National Recovery Lead
** indicates Regional Recovery Lead
*** Candidate Species ^{Note 1}

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Species: North Florida Counties Species: South Florida Counties Species: Panhandle Counties

• Anastasia Island beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus phasma)*
• Florida panther (Puma (=Felis) concolor coryi)
• Florida salt marsh vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus dukecampbelli)*
• Southeastern beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus niveiventris)*
• West Indian manatee (Florida) (Trichechus manatus)*

• Audubon's crested caracara (Polyborus plancus audubonii)
• Everglade snail kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus)
• Florida scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens)*
• Piping plover (Charadrius melodus)
• Red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis)
• Whooping crane (Grus americana)**
• Wood stork (Mycteria americana)*

• Atlantic salt marsh snake (Nerodia clarkii taeniata)*
• Eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon corais couperi)
• Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)*
• Hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)*
• Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii)**
• Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)*
• Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta)*
• Sand skink (Neoseps reynoldsi)
• Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) *** ^{Note 1}

• Flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum)
• Striped Newt (Notophthalmus perstriatus) *** ^{Note 1}

• Gulf sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi)
• Shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum)

• Squirrel Chimney Cave shrimp (Palaemonetes cummingi)*

• Oval pigtoe mussel (Pleurobema pyriforme)

• Beautiful pawpaw (Deeringothamnus pulchellus)
• Britton's beargrass (Nolina brittoniana)*
• Brooksville bellflower (Campanula robinsiae)*
• Carter's mustard (Warea carteri)
• Chapman's rhododendron (Rhododendron chapmanii)
• Cooley's water-willow (Justicia cooleyi)*
• Etonia rosemary (Conradina etonia)*
• Florida bonamia (Bonamia grandiflora)*
• Florida golden aster (Chrysopsis floridana)*
• Florida perforate cladonia (Cladonia perforata)
• Lewton's polygala (Polygala lewtonii)
• Longspurred mint (Dicerandra cornutissima)*
• Okeechobee gourd (Cucurbita okeechobeensis ssp. okeechobeensis)
• Papery whitlow-wort (Paronychia chartacea)
• Pigeon wings (Clitoria fragrans)
• Pygmy fringe-tree (Chionanthus pygmaeus)
• Rugel's pawpaw (Deeringothamnus rugelii)*
• Sandlace (Polygonella myriophylla)
• Scrub buckwheat (Eriogonum longifolium var. gnaphalifolium)*
• Scrub lupine (Lupinus aridorum)*
• Scrub plum (Prunus geniculata)*
• Wide-leaf warea (Warea amplexifolia)*

Note 1. Candidate species receive no statutory protection under the ESA. The FWS encourages cooperative conservation efforts for these species because they are, by definition, species that may warrant future protection under the ESA.