Illinois

Endangered, Threatened, and Candidate Species

 

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

 

Mammals | Birds | Reptiles | Fish |Clams | Snails | Insects |

Crustaceans | Plants

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MAMMALS

Gray bat, Myotis grisescens

Endangered

 

Indiana bat, Myotis sodalis
Endangered

 

BIRDS

Least tern (Interior population), Sterna antillarum
Endangered  

 

Piping plover (Great Lakes population), Charadrius melodus
Endangered
Critical Habitat designated

 

Whooping crane, Grus americana
non-essential, experimental population

 

REPTILES

Eastern Massasauga, Sistrurus catenatus
Candidate

 

FISH

Pallid sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus albus
Endangered

 

CLAMS (Freshwater Mussels, Unionids)

Clubshell, Pleurobema clava
Endangered

 

Fanshell, Cyprogenia stegaria (=c. irrorata)
Endangered

 

Fat pocketbook, Potamilus capax
Endangered

 

Higgins eye pearlymussel, Lampsilis higginsii
Endangered

 

Orange-footed pimpleback pearlymussel, Plethobasus cooperianus (=p. striatus)
Endangered

 

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

 

Sheepnose, (Plethobasus cyphyus)
Candidate

 

Spectaclecase, (Cumberlandia monodonta)
Candidate

 

SNAILS

Iowa Pleistocene snail, Discus macclintocki
Endangered

 

INSECTS

Hine's emerald dragonfly, Somatochlora hineana
Endangered

 

Karner Blue Butterfly, Lycaeides melissa samuelis
Endangered

 

CRUSTACEANS

Illinois cave amphipod, Gammarus acherondytes
Endangered

 

PLANTS

Decurrent false aster, Boltonia decurrens
Threatened

 

Eastern prairie fringed orchid, Platanthera leucophaea
Threatened

 

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

 

Leafy prairie-clover, Dalea foliosa
Endangered

 

Mead's milkweed, Asclepias meadii
Threatened

 

Pitcher's thistle, Cirsium pitcheri
Threatened

 

Prairie bush-clover, Lespedeza leptostachya
Threatened

 

Price's potato-bean, Apios priceana
Threatened

 

Small whorled pogonia, Isotria medeoloides
Threatened

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