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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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