Iowa

Endangered, Threatened, and Candidate Species

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

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

MAMMALS

Indiana bat
Myotis sodalis
Endangered

BIRDS

Least tern (Interior population)
Sterna antillarum
Endangered  

Piping plover
Charadrius melodus
Threatened

Whooping crane
Grus americanus
Non-essential Experimental Population

REPTILES

Eastern Massasauga
Sistrurus catenatus
Candidate

FISH

Pallid sturgeon
Scaphirhynchus albus
Endangered

Topeka shiner
Notropis topeka
Endangered

CLAMS (Freshwater Mussels, Unionids)

Higgins eye pearlymussel
Lampsilis higginsii
Endangered

Sheepnose
(Plethobasus cyphyus)
Candidate

Spectaclecase
(Cumberlandia monodonta)
Candidate

SNAILS

Iowa Pleistocene snail
Discus macclintocki
Endangered

INSECTS

Dakota skipper
(Hesperia dacotae)
Candidate