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FEDERALLY LISTED, PROPOSED, CANDIDATE, DELISTED, AND SPECIES OF CONCERN BY TAXONOMIC GROUP

(This information is for educational use only and is not a comprehensive list of species of special interest in Washington State)

Mammals

LISTED SPECIES
	Canada lynx	Lynx canadensis
	Columbian white-tailed deer (Columbia River DPS)	Odocoileus virginianus leucurus
	Gray wolf	Canis lupus
	Grizzly bear	Ursus arctos horribilis
	Pygmy rabbit (Columbia Basin DPS)	Brachylagus idahoensis
	Woodland caribou	Rangifer tarandus caribou
CANDIDATE SPECIES
	Fisher (West Coast DPS)	Martes pennanti
	Washington ground squirrel	Spermophilus washingtoni
PROPOSED SPECIES
	Mazama pocket gopher	Thomomys mazama (ssp. couchi, douglasii, glacialis, louiei, melanops, pugetensis, tacomensis, tumuli, yelmensis)
	North American wolverine (contiguous U.S. DPS)	Gulo gulo luscus
SPECIES OF CONCERN
	Mazama pocket gopher	Thomomys mazama (ssp. couchi, louiei, melanops)
	Northern sea otter	Enhydra lutris kenyoni

Birds

LISTED SPECIES
	Marbled murrelet	Brachyramphus marmoratus
	Northern spotted owl	Strix occidentalis caurina
	Short-tailed albatross	Phoebastria albatrus
	Western snowy plover (Pacific Coast population)	Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus
CANDIDATE SPECIES
	Greater sage grouse	Centrocercus urophasianus
	Yellow-billed cuckoo	Coccyzus americanus
PROPOSED SPECIES
	Streaked horned lark	Eremophila alpestris strigata
SPECIES OF CONCERN
	Bald eagle (delisted)	Haliaeetus leucocephalus
	Brown pelican (delisted)	Pelecanus occidentalis
	Peregrine falcon (delisted)	Falco peregrinus anatum

Reptiles and Amphibians

LISTED SPECIES
	Green sea turtle	Chelonia mydas
	Leatherback sea turtle	Dermochelys coriacea
	Loggerhead sea turtle	Carretta caretta
	Olive Ridley sea turtle	Lepidochelys olivacea
CANDIDATE SPECIES
	Oregon spotted frog	Rana pretiosa

Fish

LISTED SPECIES
	Bull Trout	Salvelinus confluentus
PROPOSED SPECIES
	Dolly Varden (due to similarity of appearance)	Salvelinus malma
SPECIES OF CONCERN
	Coastal cutthroat (Southwestern Washington/Lower Columbia River DPS)	Oncorhynchus clarki clarki
	Kokanee salmon (Lake Sammamish)	Oncorhynchus nerka
	Pacific lamprey	Lampetra tridentata
	Western brook lamprey	Lampetra richardsoni
	River lamprey	Lampetra ayresii

Invertebrates

LISTED SPECIES
	Oregon silverspot butterfly	Speyeria zerene hippolyta
CANDIDATE SPECIES
	Mardon skipper	Polites mardon
PROPOSED SPECIES
	Taylor's (Whulge or Edith's) checkerspot butterfly	Euphydryas editha taylori
SPECIES OF CONCERN
	Island marble butterfly	Euchloe ausonides insulanus

Plants

LISTED SPECIES
	Bradshaw's desert parsley	Lomatium bradshawii
	Golden paintbrush	Castilleja levisecta
	Kincaid's lupine	Lupinus sulphureus ssp. kincaidii
	Marsh sandwort	Arenaria paludicola
	Nelson's checker-mallow	Sidalcea nelsoniana
	Showy stickweed	Hackelia venusta
	Spalding's catchfly	Silene spaldingii
	Ute ladies' tresses	Spiranthes diluvialis
	Water howellia	Howellia aquatilis
	Wenatchee Mountains checker-mallow	Sidalcea oregana var. calva
	Umtanum desert buckwheat	Eriogonum codium
	White bluffs bladderpod	Physaria tuplashensis
CANDIDATE SPECIES
	Northern wormwood	Artemisia campestris ssp. borealis var. wormskioldii
	Whitebark pine	Pinus albicaulis

Definitions

LISTED SPECIES

An endangered species is one that is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range. A threatened species is one that is likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future.

CANDIDATE SPECIES

Taxa for which the Fish and Wildlife Service has sufficient biological information to support a proposal to list as endangered or threatened.

DELISTED SPECIES

A species that has been removed from the Federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife and plants.

PROPOSED SPECIES

A proposal rule to list this species as either threatened or endangered has been published in the Federal Register.