Kentucky's Threatened
and Endangered Species*
KEY TO STATUS:
E - Endangered
T - Threatened
PE - Proposed Endangered
PT - Proposed Threatened
*This list includes only federally listed species
NAME
|
SCIENTIFIC NAME
|
STATUS
|
PLANTS
|
Price's potato-bean |
Apios priceana |
T |
Braun's rock cress |
Arabis perstellata var. perstellata |
E |
Cumberland rosemary |
Conradina verticillata |
T |
Eggert's sunflower |
Helianthus eggertii |
T |
Cumberland sandwort |
Minuartia cumberlandensis |
E |
White-haired goldenrod |
Solidago albopilosa |
T |
Short's goldenrod |
Solidago shortii |
E |
Virginia spiraea |
Spiraea virginiana |
T |
Running buffalo clover |
Trifolium stoloniferum |
E |
MUSSELS
|
Cumberland elktoe |
Alasmidonta atropurpurea |
E |
Fanshell |
Cyprogenia stegaria |
E |
Cumberlandian combshell |
Epioblasma brevidens |
E |
Oyster mussel |
Epioblasma capsaeformis |
E |
Catspaw |
Epioblasma obliquata obliquata |
E |
Northern riffleshell |
Epioblasma torulosa rangiana |
E |
Pink mucket |
Lampsilis abrupta |
E |
Ring pink |
Obovaria retusa |
E |
Little-wing pearlymussel |
Pegias fabula |
E |
Orange-foot pimpleback |
Plethobasus cooperianus |
E |
Clubshell |
Pleurobema clava |
E |
Rough pigtoe |
Pleurobema plenum |
E |
Fat pocketbook |
Potamilus capax |
E |
Cumberland bean |
Villosa trabalis |
E |
CRUSTACEANS
|
Mammoth cave shrimp |
Palaemonias ganteri |
E |
INSECTS
|
American burying beetle |
Nicrophorus americanus |
E |
FISH
|
Relict darter |
Etheostoma chienense |
E |
Duskytail darter |
Duskytail darter |
E |
Palezone shiner |
Notropis albizonatus |
E |
Blackside dace |
Phoxinus cumberlandensis |
T |
Pallid sturgeon |
Scaphirhynchus albus |
E |
REPTILES
|
Copperbelly water snake |
Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta |
PT |
BIRDS
|
Bald eagle |
Haliaeetus leucocephalus |
T |
Red-cockaded woodpecker |
Picoides borealis |
E |
Interior least tern |
Sterna antillarum athalassos |
E |
MAMMALS
|
Virginia big-eared bat |
Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus |
E |
Gray bat |
Myotis grisescens |
E |
Indiana bat |
Myotis sodalis |
E |
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