Ohio

Endangered, Threatened, and Candidate Species

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This is a list of federally threatened or endangered species in Ohio. For the Ohio state-listed threatened or endangered species, please contact the Ohio Department of Natural Resources

For more information about threatened and endangered species in Ohio, contact the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service office at 4625 Morse Road, Suite 104 Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43230 (614-416-8993)

MAMMALS

Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis)
Status: Endangered

BIRDS

Bald eagle ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
Status: The bald eagle is 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, the bald eagle remains protected under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. Click here for guidelines that were prepared to help landowners, land managers and others meet the intent of that Act and avoid disturbing bald eagles.

Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus)
Extirpated from Ohio
Status: Endangered and Critical Habitat Designated  

Whooping crane (Grus americanus)
Status: Non-essential Experimental Population

REPTILES

Copperbelly water snake (Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta)
Status: Threatened in northern part of its range (north of 40 degrees north latitude, roughly Indianapolis). It is not listed in the southern part of its range.

Eastern Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus)
Status: Candidate

Lake Erie water snake (Nerodia sipedon insularum)
Status: Threatened

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FISH

Scioto madtom (Noturus trautmani)
Status: Endangered

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CLAMS (Freshwater Mussels, Unionids)

Clubshell (Pleurobema clava)
Status: Endangered

Fanshell (Cyprogenia stegaria) (=c. irrorata)
Status: Endangered

Northern riffleshell (Epioblasma torulosa rangiana)
Status: Endangered

Pink mucket pearlymussel (Lampsilis orbiculata) (=l. abrupta)
Status: Endangered

Purple cat's paw pearlymussel
Epioblasma (=dysnomia) obliquata obliquata
Status: Endangered

Rayed bean (Villosa fabalis)
Status: Candidate

Sheepnose (Plethobasus cyphus)
Status: Candidate

White cat's paw pearlymussel (Epioblasma obliquata perobliqua)
Status: Endangered

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INSECTS

American burying beetle (=giant carrion) (Nicrophorus americanus)
Status: Endangered

Karner Blue Butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis)
Status: Endangered

Mitchell's satyr butterfly (Neonympha mitchellii mitchellii)
Status: Endangered

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PLANTS

Eastern prairie fringed orchid (Platanthera leucophaea)
Status: Threatened

Lakeside daisy (Hymenoxys herbacea) (=H. acaulis var. glabra)
Status: Threatened

Northern wild monkshood (Aconitum noveboracense)
Status: Threatened

Running buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum)
Status: Endangered

Small whorled pogonia (Isotria medeoloides)
Status: Threatened

Virginia spiraea (Spiraea virginiana)
Status: Threatened

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List revised March 2008