Listed Species in Sumter
County | ||||
Species | Federal Status | State Status | Habitat | Threats |
Bird | ||||
Bald eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus | T | E | Inland waterways and estuarine areas in Georgia. | Major factor in initial decline was lowered reproductive success following use of DDT. Current threats include habitat destruction, disturbance at the nest, illegal shooting, electrocution, impact injuries, and lead poisoning. |
Red-cockaded
woodpecker Picoides borealis | E | E | Nest in mature pine with low understory vegetation (<1.5m); forage in pine and pine hardwood stands > 30 years of age, preferably > 10" dbh | Reduction of older age pine stands and to encroachment of hardwood midstory in older age pine stands due to fire suppression |
Reptile | ||||
Alligator snapping turtle Macroclemys temminckii | No Federal Status | T | Rivers, lakes, and large ponds near stream swamps. | Destruction and modification of habitat and overharvesting. |
Barbour's
map turtle Graptemys barbouri | No Federal Status | T | Restricted
to the Apalachicola River and larger tributaries including the Chipola, Chattahoochee, and Flint Rivers in eastern Alabama, western Georgia, and western Florida. | |
Gopher tortoise Gopherus polyphemus | No Federal Status | T | Well-drained, sandy soils in forest and grassy areas; associated with pine overstory, open understory with grass and forb groundcover, and sunny areas for nesting | Habitat loss and conversion to closed canopy forests. Other threats include mortality on highways and the collection of tortoises for pets. |
Invertebrate | ||||
Gulf moccasinshell mussel Medionidus pencillatus | E | E | Medium streams to large rivers with slight to moderate current over sand and gravel substrates; may be associated with muddy sand substrates around tree roots | Habitat modification, sedimentation, and water quality degradation |
Oval
pigtoe mussel Pleurobema pyriforme | E | E | River tributaries and main channels in slow to moderate currents over silty sand, muddy sand, sand, and gravel substrates | Habitat modification, sedimentation, and water quality degradation |
Purple
bankclimber mussel Elliptoideus sloatianus | T | T | Main channels of ACF basin rivers in moderate currents over sand, sand mixed with mud, or gravel substrates | Habitat modification, sedimentation, and water quality degradation |
Shiny-rayed
pocketbook mussel Lampsilis subangulata | E | E | Medium creeks to the mainstems of rivers with slow to moderate currents over sandy substrates and associated with rock or clay | Habitat modification, sedimentation, and water quality degradation |
Fish | ||||
Bluestripe shiner | No Federal Status | T | Brownwater streams | |
Plant | ||||
Buckthorn Sideroxylon thornei | No Federal Status | E | Oak flatwoods where soil normally is saturated for long periods after floods/heavy rain (i.e., calcareous swamps; woods bordering cypress ponds) | |
Canby's dropwort Oxypolis canbyi | E | E | Peaty muck of shallow cypress ponds, wet pine savannahs, and adjacent sloughs and drainage ditches | Loss or alteration of wetland habitats |
Harper Fimbry Fimbristylis perpusilla | No Federal Status | E | Muddy bottoms and silty margins of drying pine barren ponds and farm ponds | |
Hirst's panic grass Panicum hirstii | Candidate Species | E | Small seasonally wet ponds (limestone depression ponds and shallow cypress ponds) | |
Parrot pitcher-plant Sarracenia psittacina | No Federal Status | T | Acid soils of open bogs, wet savannahs, and low areas in pine flatwoods | |
Sweet pitcher-plant Sarracenia rubra | No Federal Status | E | Acid soils of open bogs, sandhill seeps, Atlantic white-cedar swamps , wet savannahs, low areas in pine flatwoods, and along sloughs and ditches | |
White trumpet Sarracenia leucophylla | No Federal Status | E | Acid soils of open bogs and on sphagnum mats in light gaps along streams and in red maple-blackgum swamps |