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Federally-Listed Threatened, Endangered, Proposed, and Candidate Species' County Distribution
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For more information about threatened and endangered species in Ohio, contact the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service office at 4625 Morse Road, Suite 104, Columbus, Ohio 43230 (614-416-8993)
Bald Eagle
Bald eagles are 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, bald eagles remain protected under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. To help landowners, land managers, and others meet the intent of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, guidelines on how to avoid disturbing nesting bald eagles are available.
List revised August 8, 2017
Species | Status | Counties | Habitat |
Mammals
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Indiana
bat |
Endangered |
All counties in Ohio |
Hibernacula
= Caves and mines; |
Myotis septentrionalis |
Threatened |
Statewide |
Hibernates in caves and mines - swarming in surrounding wooded areas in autumn. During late spring and summer roosts and forages in upland forests. |
Birds |
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(Dendroica kirtlandii) |
Endangered |
Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Erie, Lake, Lorain, Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky |
Kirtland's warblers are known to migrate along the Lake Erie shoreline through Ohio in late April-May and late August-early October. |
Piping
plover |
Endangered |
Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Erie, Lake, Lorain, Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky |
Beaches along shorelines of the Great Lakes |
Piping plover |
Critical Habitat Designated |
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Calidris canutus rufa |
Threatened |
Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Erie, Lake, Lorain, Lucas, Ottawa, and Sandusky |
Present in Ohio during spring and fall migration |
Reptiles
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Lake
Erie water snake |
Delisted August 2011 |
Erie, Ottawa |
Shorelines of islands in western Lake Erie |
Copperbelly
water snake |
Threatened |
Defiance, Hardin, Williams |
Wooded and permanently wet areas such as oxbows, sloughs, brushy ditches and floodplain woods |
Eastern massasauga |
Threatened |
Ashtabula, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Columbiana, Crawford, Erie, Fairfield, Fayette, Greene, Hardin, Holmes, Huron, Lake, Licking, Logan, Lucas, Mahoning, Marion, Montgomery, Ottawa, Perry, Portage, Preble, Richland, Sandusky, Stark, Summit, Trumbull, Warren, Wayne, Wyandot |
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Fish
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Scioto
madtom |
Endangered |
Franklin, Madison, Pickaway, Union |
Stream riffles of moderate flow over sandy gravel bottom |
Mussels
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Clubshell |
Endangered |
Ashtabula, Coshocton, Defiance, Franklin, Greene, Hancock, Hardin, Madison, Pickaway, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Trumbull, Union, Williams |
Found in coarse sand and gravel areas of runs and riffles within streams and small rivers |
Fanshell |
Endangered |
Adams, Athens, Brown, Clermont, Coshocton, Gallia, Hamilton, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan, Muskingum, Scioto, Washington |
Found in areas of packed sand and gravel at locations in a good current |
Northern
riffleshell |
Endangered |
Defiance, Franklin, Madison, Pickaway, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Union, Williams |
Large streams and small rivers in firm sand of riffle areas; also occurs in Lake Erie |
Pink
mucket pearlymussel |
Endangered |
Adams, Athens, Brown, Clermont, Gallia, Hamilton, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan, Scioto, Washington |
The lower Ohio River and its larger tributaries |
Purple
cat's paw pearlymussel |
Endangered |
Coshocton |
Gravel riffles of medium to large rivers |
Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica |
Threatened |
Coshocton, Delaware, Franklin, Madison, Muskingum, Pickaway, Union, and Williams |
Fish Creek, Ohio River, Muskingum River, Walhonding River, Big Darby Creek, Little Darby Creek |
Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica |
Critical Habitat |
Coshocton, Madison, Union, and Williams |
Fish Creek, Little Darby Creek, and Walhonding River |
Rayed
bean |
Endangered |
1Adams, Brown, Butler, Clark, Clermont, Coshocton, Darke, Defiance, Delaware, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Logan, Lucas, Madison, Marion, Miami, Montgomery, Pickaway, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Shelby, Union, Warren, Williams Wyandot |
Smaller, headwater creeks, but they are sometimes found in large rivers, and Lake Erie |
Sheepnose |
Endangered |
Adams, Athens, Brown, Clermont, Coshocton, Gallia, Hamilton, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan, Muskingum, Scioto, Washington |
Shallow areas in larger rivers and streams |
Snuffbox |
Endangered |
Adams, Ashtabula, Athens, Brown, Clermont, Coshocton, Delaware, Franklin, Gallia, Greene, Hamilton, Lake, Lawrence, Madison, Meigs, Miami, Montgomery, Morgan, Muskingum, Pickaway, Ross, Scioto, Union, Washington |
Small to medium-sized creeks in areas with a swift current and some larger rivers, and Lake Erie |
White
cat's paw pearlymussel |
Endangered |
Defiance, Williams |
Firm sand or gravel riffles in small streams and medium to large rivers |
Insects
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American
burying beetle |
Endangered |
Athens, Hocking, Morgan, Perry, Vinton |
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Mitchell's
satyr |
Endangered |
Portage |
Fens; wetlands characterized by calcareous soils which are fed by carbonate-rich water from seeps and springs |
Karner
blue butterfly |
Endangered |
Lucas |
Pine barrens and oak savannas on sandy soils and containing wild lupines (Lupinus perennis), the only known food plant of the larvae |
Plants
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Eastern
prairie fringed |
Threatened |
Clark, Holmes, Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Wayne |
Mesic to wet prairies and meadows |
Lakeside
daisy |
Threatened |
Erie, Ottawa |
Dry rocky prairies; limestone rock surfaces including outcrops and quarries |
Northern
monkshood |
Threatened |
Hocking, Portage, Summit |
Cool, moist, shaded cliff faces or talus slopes in wooded ravines, near water seeps |
Running
buffalo clover |
Endangered |
Adams, Athens, Belmont, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Galia, Highland, Hamilton, Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Pickaway, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Vinton, Warren |
Disturbed bottomland meadows; disturbed sites that have shade during part of each day |
Virginia
spiraea |
Threatened |
Scioto |
Stream banks and floodplains |
Small
whorled pogonia |
Threatened |
Hocking, Scioto |
Dry woodland; upland sites in mixed forests (second or third growth stage) |
1Rational for addition of counties for rayed bean: These counties have been included for the rayed bean based upon current and historical occurrence data. Since 2004, three extant rayed bean populations have been discovered in Ohio streams. Two of these three populations were thought to be extirpated prior to the discoveries and the third population was not known from historical data. Therefore, we feel it is prudent to make our list of counties where the rayed bean may be present reflective of a conservative approach to section 7 consultation under the Endangered Species Act. The rayed bean should be considered potential present in any county on our list where suitable habitat occurs.
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