Fish
Endangered, Threatened, Proposed, and Candidates in the Upper Midwest
Arkansas darter (Etheostoma cragini)
Natural History and Regulatory Information
Candidate
Information
Species
Profile (links to National U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service web
pages)
Natural History and Regulatory Information
Species
Profile (links to National U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service web
pages)
Fact
sheet
Natural History and Regulatory Information
Species
Profile (links
to National U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service web pages)
Fact
sheet
National
Geographic: Eyeless "Ghost Fish" Haunts Ozark Caves October
29, 2003
Natural History and Regulatory Information
Species
Profile (links to National U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service web
pages)
Fact
Sheet
Listen to a podcast about Pallid Sturgeon!
Natural History and Regulatory Information
September 1, 2010: Threatened Status for Shovelnose Sturgeon Under the Similarity of Appearance Provisions of the Endangered Species Act - - Pallid sturgeon listed to protected pallid sturgeon by treating shovelnose sturgeon as a threatened species where their ranges overlap.
Species
Profile (links to National U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service web
pages)
Pallid Sturgeon Fact sheet
Recovery Actions
2009 Recovery Land Acquisition Grant: Acquisition of Marquette Island, an important resource for pallid sturgeon and interior least tern recovery on the Middle Mississippi River (Cape Girardeau County, Missouri)
Non-traditional S7 Grant: Windy Bar Island Acquisition (Cape Girardeau County, MO): $483,504 - May 2007
Recovery
Information (Middle Mississippi River)
Pallid Sturgeon Recovery Plan (64-page PDF)
Missouri
River News and Information
Natural History and Regulatoty Information
Fact Sheet
Shovelnose Sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus)
This species is listed as Threatened Due to Similarity of Appearance (to the Pallid Sturgeon)
September 1, 2010: Threatened Status for Shovelnose Sturgeon Under the Similarity of Appearance Provisions of the Endangered Species Act - - Pallid sturgeon listed to protected pallid sturgeon by treating shovelnose sturgeon as a threatened species where their ranges overlap.
Species Profile
More information about shovelnose sturgeon
See Topeka Shiner web pages
USFWS Midwest Endangered Species Home
