The staff of the Alabama Ecological Services office are national species leads for 50 threatened and endangered species.  The table below lists the species the staff are the lead for and additional species they cover in the state.  If you have questions for any of our lead biologists, feel free to contact them.

 
Staff National Species Lead Office Species Lead/POC 
Jennifer Grunewald

Mussel - Inflated Heelspliter

Crustaceans - Alabama Cave Shrimp, Slenderclaw Crayfish

Fish - Alabama Cavefish, Rush Darter, Trispot Darter, Vermillion Darter, Watercress Darter

  
Evan Collins

Reptiles & Amphibians - Black Warrior Waterdog, Flattened Musk Turtle

Fish - Frecklebelly Madtom, Spring Pygmy Sunfish

Mussels - Canoe Creek Clubshell, Finelined Pocketbook, Orange-nacre Mucket, Southern Clubshell

Fish - Popeye Shiner

Reptiles & Amphibians - Alabama Redbelly Turtle, Alligator Snapping Turtle, Black Pinesnake, Dusky Gopher Frog, Eastern Indigo Snake
Erin Padgett

Mussels - Alabama Lampmussel, Dark Pigtoe, Pale Lilliput

Snails - Armored Snail, Rough Hornsnail, Slender Campeloma, Tulotoma Snail

Birds -  Red knot

Mussels - Southern elktoe, Longsolid
Brittany Barker-Jones Mussels -  Alabama Moccasinshell, Coosa Moccasinshell, Georgia Pigtoe, Heavy Pigtoe, Ovate Clubshell, Southern Pigtoe, Triangular Kidneyshell  Aquatics - Coosa Creekshell
Morgan Brizendine

Fish - Alabama Sturgeon

Mussels - Alabama Pearlshell

Snails - Cylindrical Lioplax, Flat Pebblesnail, Interrupted Rocksnail, Lacy Elimia, Painted Rocksnail, Plicate Rocksnail, Round Rocksnail 

Fish -  Blue Shiner, Gulf Sturgeon        

Mussels - Rayed Creekshell                                                                              
Scott Lamont

Fish - Pygmy Sculpin, Cahaba Shiner

Mussels - White Wartyback

Snails - Oblong Rocksnail

 Plants - Mohr's Barbara's Buttons
Jenna King -Listing Biologist

Fish - Coal Darter, Bankhead Darter, Tuscumbia Darter

Mussel - Alabama Hickorynut, Alabama Rainbow

Plant - Apalachicola Wild Indigo, Eared Coneflower, Harper's Heartleaf

Reptile - Alabama Map Turtle, Black-knobbed Map Turtle, Escambia Map Turtle

Snail - Manitou Cavesnail

Amphibian - Tennessee Cave Salamander

Mammals - West Indian Manatee
Shannon Holbrook  

Bats - Indiana, Gray, Northern Long-Eared

Birds - Piping plover,, Red-cockaded Woodpecker

Sea Turtles - Green, Hawksbill, Kemp's ridley, Leatherback, Loggerhead
Bill Lynn Mammals - Alabama Beach Mouse

Mammals - Perdido Key Beach Mouse

Reptiles - Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake
Jason Ross Reptiles & Amphibians - Red Hills Salamander Terrestrial -  Mitchell's satyr butterfly
Erin Lentz

Ferns & Allies - Alabama streak-sorus fern

Plants - Fleshy-fruit gladecress, Kral's water plantain, Lyrate bladderpod, Tennessee yellow-eyed grass

Plants