Peer Review Plan for the 5-Year Status Reviews – Multiple Species

Peer Review Plan for the 5-Year Status Reviews – Multiple Species
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Peer Review Plan for the 5-Year Status Reviews – Multiple Species associated with Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Initiation of 5-Year Status Reviews for 37 Southeastern Species 86 FR 32965.  This plan includes all species in the Federal Register notice.  At this time it is unknown if all 5-year reviews for the species will undergo peer review.

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A small white bird with light grey wings, orange legs and a black cap

The roseate tern is about 40 centimeters in length, with light-gray wings and back. Its first three or four primaries are black and so is its cap. The rest of the body is white, with a rosy tinge on the chest and belly during the breeding season. The tail is deeply forked, and the outermost...

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Animalia
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The giant anole is similar in proportions to A. cuvieri, which is found on the mainland of Puerto Rico, except that the head is more slender and pointed, and the body is larger overall. The male anole specimen described in 1931 had a body length of 16O milimeters. The color of this specimen was...
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Animalia
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Reticulated flatwoods salamanders are moderately-sized, slender salamanders with relatively short, pointed snouts and stout tails. Their heads are small and approximately equal in width to the neck and shoulder region. They weigh 1-12g. Their bodies are black to chocolate-black with fine, irregular...
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Animalia
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The lacy elimia is a small pleurocerid snail that will grow to about 11 mm (0.4 inches) in length. The dark brown to black shell is conic in shape, strongly striate, and often folded in the upper whorls, the aperture is often purple, and without banding. The aperture is snail and ovate. The lacy...
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The cylindrical lioplax is a gill-breathing snail in the family Viviparidae with an elongate shell reaching about 28 millimeters (mm) (1.1 inches) in length. The shell color is light to dark olivaceous-green externally, and bluish inside of the aperture.
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Animalia
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The flat pebblesnail is a small snail in the family Lithoglyphidae, but with a comparatively large and distinct shell, relative to other hydrobiid snails. The shell has a depressed spire and expanded, flattened body whorl. The shell shape is ovate and they can grow to 3.5 to 4.4 mm (0.1 to 0.2...
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Animalia
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The painted rocksnail is a small to medium pleurocerid snail measuring about 19 mm in length and subglobose to oval in shape. The aperture is broadly ovate and rounded anteriorly. Coloration varies from yellowish to olive-brown, and usually with four dark bands. Some shells may not have bands and...
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Animalia
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The plicate rocksnail is a member of the Pleuroceridae family, and can grow to about 20 mm (0.8 in) in length. The shell is usually brown to green with four equidistant color bands being subglobose in shape. The shell typically has broadly rounded apertures, usually with an ornamented body whorl...
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Animalia
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Two black and brown striped pea sized snails being held in a hand.

The round rocksnail is a member of the Pleuroceridae family and has a subglobose shell, with an ovately rounded aperture and grows to about 20mm (0.8 inches) in length. The color may be yellow to dark brown or olive, and usually has four solid or broken bands.

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Animalia
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A member of the pea family (Fabaceae or Leguminosae), Apios priceana is a twining, herbaceous, perennial vine that grows from a stout tuber (often to 18 cm or 7.2 in. in diameter). The stem is round in cross section, somewhat twisted, and slightly ridged. Leaves are alternate, pinnately compound...
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Plantae
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Southeast