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Vulnerable Species and Species of Special Concern

Vulnerable: Amphibians | Birds | Fish | Mammals | Flowering Plants | Primitive Plants | Reptiles
Special Concern: Amphibians | Birds | Fish | Insects | Flowering Plants

Vulnerable

Amphibians

Smallmouth Salamander Ambystoma texanum
Great Plains Toad Bufo cognatus
Mountain Dusky Salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus
Pacific Giant Salamander Dicamptodon tennebrosus
Spring Salamander Gyrinophilus porphyriticus
Coeur d'Alène Salamander Plethodon idahoensis
Northern Red-legged Frog Rana aurora
Great Basin Spadefoot Toad Spea intermontana

Birds

Queen Charlotte Goshawk Accipiter gentilis laingi
Pacific Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias fannini
Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
Red-shouldered Hawk Buteo lineatus
Ferruginous Hawk Buteo regalis
Bicknell's Thrush Catharus bicknelli
Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis
Cerulean Warbler Dendroica cerulea
Peale's Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus pealei
Tundra Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus tundrius
Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis
Red-headed Woodpecker Melanerpes erythrocephalus
Lewis' Woodpecker Melanerpes lewis
Long-billed Curlew Numenius americanus
Flammulated Owl Otus flammeolus
Ivory Gull Pagophila eburnea
Ross' Gull Rhodostethia rosea
Louisiana Waterthrush Seiurus motacilla
Ancient Murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus

Fish

Blackline Prickleback Acantholumpenus mackayl
Shortnose Sturgeon Acipenser brevirostrum
Green Sturgeon Acipenser medirostris
White Sturgeon Acipenser transmontanus
Bering Wolffish Anarhichas orientalis
Redside Dace Clinostomus elongatus
Kiyi Coregonus kiyi
Spring Cisco Coregonus sp.
Squanga Whitefish Coregonus sp.
Cultus Pygmy Sculpin Cottus sp.
Lake Chubsucker Erimyzon sucetta
Greenside Darter Etheostoma blennioides
Banded Killifish Fundulus diaphanus
Blackstripe Topminnow Fundulus notatus
Atlantic Cod Gadus morhua
Charlotte Unarmoured Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus
Giant Stickleback Gasterosteus sp.
Western Silvery Minnow Hybognathus argyritus
Chestnut Lamprey Ichthyomyzon castaneus
Northern Brook Lamprey Ichthyomyzon fossor
Bigmouth Buffalo Ictiobus cyprinellus
Black Buffalo Ictiobus niger
Lake Lamprey Lampetra macrostoma
Spotted Gar Lepisosteus oculatus
Redbreast Sunfish Lepomis auritus
Warmouth Lepomis gulosus
Orangespotted Sunfish Lepomis humilis
Silver Chub Macrhybopsis storeriana
Spotted Sucker Minytrema melanops
River Redhorse Moxostoma carinatum
Fourhorn Sculpin Myoxocephalus quadricornis
Pugnose Shiner Notropis anogenus
Bridle Shiner Notropis bifrenatus
Bigmouth Shiner Notropis dorsalis
Rosyface Shiner Notropis rubellus
Silver Shiner Notropolis photogenis
Brindled Madtom Noturus stigmosus
Speckeled Dace Rhinichthys osculus
Umatilla Dace Rhinichthys umatilla
Pacific Sardine Sardinops sagax
Monarch Butterfly Danaus plexippus
Seaside Bone Hypogymnia heterophylla
Cryptic Paw Nephroma occultum
Oldgrowth Specklebelly Pseudocyphellaria rainierensis

Mammals

Mountain Beaver Aplodonia rufa
Blue Whale Balaenoptera musculus
Fin Whale Balaenoptera physalus
Black-tailed Prairie Dog Cynomys ludovicianus
Ord's Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys ordii
Spotted Bat Euderma maculatum
Southern Flying Squirrel Glaucomys volans
Northern Bottlenose Whale Hyperoodon ampullatus
Sowerby's Beaked Whale Mesoplodon bidens
Woodland Vole Microtus pinetorum
Ermine Mustela erminea haidarum
Keen's Long-eared Bat Myotis keenii
Fringed Myotis Bat Myotis thysanodes
Harbour Seal Phoca vitulina mellonae
Western Harvest Mouse Reithrodontomys megalotis megalotis
Eastern Mole Scalopus aquaticus
Gaspe Shrew Sorex gaspensis
Nuttall's Cottontail Sylvilagus nuttallii nuttallii
Grey Fox Urocyon cinereoargenieus
Polar Bear Ursus maritimus

Flowering Plants

Green Dragon Arisaema dracontium
Athabasca Thrift Armeria maritima interior
Gulf of St. Lawrence Aster Aster laurentianus
Willow Aster Aster praealtus
Crooked-stemmed Aster Aster prenanthoides
Bathurst Aster Aster subulatus obtusifolius
Fernald's Milk-vetch Astragalus robbinsii fernaldii
Branched Bartonia Bartonia paniculata
Buffalograss Buchloë dactyloides
Indian Plantain Cacalia plantaginea
Wild Hyacinth Camassia scilloides
Dwarf Hackberry Celtis tenuifolia
Smooth Goosefoot Chenopodium subglabrum
Victorin's Water Hemlock Cicuta maculata victorinii
Mackenzie Hairgrass Deschampsia mackenzieana
Provancher's Fleabane Erigeron philadelphicus provancheri
American Columbo Frasera caroliniensis
Victorin's Gentian Gentiana victorini
Swamp Rose Mallow Hibiscus moscheutos
False Rue-anemone Isopyrum biternatum
New Jersey Rush Juncus caesariensis
Dense Blazing Star Liatris spicata
Lilaeopsis Lilaeopsis chinensis
Macoun's Meadowfoam Limnanthes macounii
Hare-footed Locoweed Oxytropis lagopus
Eastern Prairie White Fringed Orchid Platanthera leucophaea
Hill's Pondweed Potamogeton hillii
Hop Tree Ptelea trifoliata
Shumard Oak Quercus shumardii
Climbing Prairie Rose Rosa setigera
Long's Bulrush Scirpus longii

Primitive Plants

Coastal Wood Fern Dryopteris arguta
Bolander's Quillwort Isoëtes bolanderi
Broad Beech Fern Phegopteris hexagonoptera

Reptiles

Spotted Turtle Clemmys guttata
Wood Turtle Clemmys insculpta
Eastern Yellow-bellied Racer Coluber constrictor flaviventris
Five-lined Skink Eumeces fasciatus
Northern Prairie Skink Eumeces septentrionalis septentrionalis
Eastern Hognose Snake Heterodon platirhinos
Eastern Short-horned Lizard Phrynosoma douglassii brevirostre
Butler's Garter Snake Thamnophis butleri

 

Special Concern

Amphibians

Tailed Frog (Coast Population) Ascaphus truei

Birds

Ipswich Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis princeps

Fish

Columbia Mottled Sculpin (Columbia Basin Population) Cottus bairdi
Pugnose Minnow Notropis emiliae

Insects

Weidemeyer's Admiral Basilarchia weidemeyerii

Flowering Plants

Felt-leaf Willow Salix arbusculoides
Large-headed Woolly Yarrow
Sand-dune Short-capsuled Willow
Turnor's Willow
Floccose Tansy

 

Extinct and extirpated
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