Fish
Endangered, Threatened, Proposed, and Candidates in the Upper Midwest
Arkansas darter (Etheostoma cragini)
Status: Candidate
Lead Region:6
Region 3 Lead Office: Columbia ES, Missouri
Field Office
Range: Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
Natural History and Regulatory Information
Candidate
Information
Species
Profile (links to National U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service web
pages)
Grotto Sculpin (Cottus specus)
Status: Endangered
Grotto Sculpin webpage
Status: Threatened, listed
May 22, 1990
Habitat: Medium to large rivers in shallow riffles over gravel bottoms
Lead Region: 6
Region 3 Lead Office: Columbia ES, Missouri
Field Office
Range: Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
Natural History and Regulatory Information
Species
Profile (links to National U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service web
pages)
Fact
sheet
Article: Tiny Catfish Hangs on in Kansas
Status: Threatened
Niangua Darter Home
Status: Threatened, listed
November 1, 1984
Habitat: Caves in the Boone and Burlington limestone formations
of the Ozark Mountains
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: Columbia ES, Missouri
Field Office
Range: Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma
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
Status: Endangered
Pallid Sturgeon Home
Status: Endangered, listed
October 28, 1975
Habitat: Stream riffles of moderate flow over sandy gravel bottom;
may be extinct
Lead Region: 3
Region 3 Lead Office: Ohio Field Office
Range: Ohio
Natural History and Regulatory 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
Status: Endangered
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