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Ohio
Federally-Listed Threatened, Endangered, Proposed, and Candidate Species' County Distribution
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more information about threatened and endangered species in Ohio, contact the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
office at 4625 Morse Road, Suite 104, Columbus, Ohio 43230 (614-416-8993)
Bald Eagle
Bald eagles are no longer protected under the federal Endangered Species Act and Section 7 consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is no longer necessary. However, bald eagles remain protected under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act. To help landowners, land managers, and others meet the intent of the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, guidelines on how to avoid disturbing nesting bald eagles are available.
List revised January 11, 2017
Species |
Status |
Counties |
Habitat |
Mammals |
Indiana
bat
(Myotis sodalis) |
Endangered |
All
counties in Ohio |
Hibernacula
= Caves and mines;
Maternity and foraging habitat = small stream corridors with
well developed riparian woods; upland forests |
Northern long-eared bat
Myotis septentrionalis |
Threatened |
Statewide |
Hibernates in caves and mines - swarming in surrounding wooded areas in autumn. During late spring and summer roosts and forages in upland forests. |
Birds |
Kirtland's warbler
(Dendroica kirtlandii) |
Endangered |
Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Erie, Lake, Lorain, Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky |
Kirtland's warblers are known to migrate along the Lake Erie shoreline through Ohio in late April-May and late August-early October. |
Piping
plover
(Charadrius melodus) |
Endangered |
Ashtabula,
Cuyahoga, Erie,
Lake, Lorain, Lucas,
Ottawa, Sandusky |
Beaches
along shorelines of the Great Lakes |
Piping plover
(Charadrius melodus) |
Critical
Habitat Designated |
Erie,
Lake |
|
Red Knot (Rufa)
Calidris canutus rufa |
Threatened |
Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Erie, Lake, Lorain, Lucas, Ottawa, and Sandusky |
Present in Ohio during spring and fall migration |
Reptiles |
Lake
Erie water snake
(Nerodia sipedon insularum) |
Delisted August 2011 |
Erie,
Ottawa |
Shorelines
of islands in western Lake Erie |
Copperbelly
water snake
(Nerodia erythrogaster
neglecta) |
Threatened |
Defiance,
Hardin, Williams |
Wooded
and permanently wet areas such as oxbows, sloughs, brushy ditches
and floodplain woods |
Eastern massasauga
(Sistrurus catenatus) |
Threatened |
Ashtabula,
Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Columbiana, Crawford, Erie,
Fairfield, Fayette, Greene, Hardin, Huron, Licking, Logan, Lucas, Mahoning, Marion, Montgomery, Ottawa, Portage,
Preble, Richland, Sandusky, Trumbull, Warren, Wayne, Wyandot |
|
Fish |
Scioto
madtom
(Noturus trautmani) |
Endangered |
Franklin,
Madison, Pickaway, Union |
Stream
riffles of moderate flow over sandy gravel bottom |
Mussels |
Clubshell
(Pleurobema clava) |
Endangered |
Ashtabula,
Coshocton, Defiance, Franklin, Greene,
Hancock, Hardin, Madison, Pickaway, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Trumbull, Union, Williams |
Found
in coarse sand and gravel areas of runs and riffles within streams
and small rivers |
Fanshell
(Cyprogenia stegaria)
(=C. irrorata) |
Endangered |
Adams, Athens, Brown, Clermont, Coshocton,
Gallia, Hamilton, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan, Muskingum, Scioto, Washington |
Found
in areas of packed sand and gravel at locations in a good current |
Northern
riffleshell
(Epioblasma torulosa
rangiana) |
Endangered |
Defiance, Franklin,
Madison, Pickaway, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Union, Williams |
Large
streams and small rivers in firm sand of riffle areas; also
occurs in Lake Erie |
Pink
mucket pearlymussel
(Lampsilis abrupta) |
Endangered |
Adams, Athens, Brown, Clermont, Gallia,
Hamilton, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan, Scioto, Washington |
The
lower Ohio River and its larger tributaries |
Purple
cat's paw pearlymussel
(Epioblasma obliquata
obliquata) |
Endangered |
Coshocton |
Gravel
riffles of medium to large rivers |
Rabbitsfoot
Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica |
Threatened |
Coshocton, Franklin, Madison, Muskingum, Pickaway, Union, and Williams |
Fish Creek, Ohio River, Muskingum River, Walhonding River, Big Darby Creek, Little Darby Creek |
Rabbitsfoot
Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica |
Critical Habitat |
Coshocton, Madison, Union, and Williams
Maps of critical habitat in Ohio |
Fish Creek, Little Darby Creek, and Walhonding River |
Rayed
bean
(Villosa fabalis) |
Endangered |
1Adams, Brown, Butler, Clark, Clermont, Coshocton, Darke, Defiance, Delaware, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Logan, Lucas, Madison, Marion, Miami, Montgomery, Pickaway, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Shelby, Union, Warren, and Williams |
Smaller, headwater creeks, but they are sometimes found in large rivers, and Lake Erie |
Sheepnose
(Plethobasus cyphus) |
Endangered |
Adams, Athens, Brown, Clermont, Coshocton, Gallia, Hamilton, Lawrence, Meigs,Morgan, Muskingum, Scioto, Washington |
Shallow areas in larger rivers and streams |
Snuffbox
(Epioblasma triquetra) |
Endangered |
Adams, Ashtabula, Athens, Brown, Clermont, Coshocton, Delaware, Franklin, Gallia, Greene, Hamilton, Lake, Lawrence, Madison, Meigs, Miami, Montgomery, Morgan, Muskingum, Pickaway, Ross, Scioto, Union, Washington |
Small to medium-sized creeks in areas with a swift current and some larger rivers, and Lake Erie |
White
cat's paw pearlymussel
(Epioblasma obliquata perobliqua ) |
Endangered |
Defiance, Williams |
Firm
sand or gravel riffles in small streams and medium to large
rivers |
Insects |
American
burying beetle
(Nicrophorus americanus) |
Endangered |
Athens,
Hocking, Morgan, Perry, Vinton |
|
Mitchell's
satyr
(Neonympha mitchellii mitchellii) |
Endangered |
Portage |
Fens;
wetlands characterized by calcareous soils which are fed by
carbonate-rich water from seeps and springs |
Karner
blue butterfly
(Lycaeides melissa samuelis) |
Endangered |
Lucas |
Pine
barrens and oak savannas on sandy soils and containing wild
lupines (Lupinus perennis), the only known food plant
of the larvae |
Rusty patched bumble bee
Bombus affinis |
Endangered |
Franklin, Lucas, Stark |
Grasslands with flowering plants from April through October, underground and abandoned rodent cavities or clumps of grasses above ground as nesting sites, and undisturbed soil for hibernating queens to overwinter. |
Plants |
Eastern
prairie fringed
orchid
(Platanthera leucophaea) |
Threatened |
Clark,
Holmes, Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Wayne |
Mesic
to wet prairies and meadows |
Lakeside
daisy
(Hymenoxys herbacea
(Formerly H. acaulis
var. glabra) |
Threatened |
Erie,
Ottawa |
Dry
rocky prairies; limestone rock surfaces including outcrops and
quarries |
Northern
monkshood
(Aconitum noveboracense) |
Threatened |
Hocking,
Portage, Summit |
Cool,
moist, shaded cliff faces or talus slopes in wooded ravines,
near water seeps |
Running
buffalo clover
(Trifolium stoloniferum) |
Endangered |
Adams,
Brown, Clermont, Hamilton, Hocking, Jackson, Lawrence, Ross, Scioto, Vinton, Warren |
Disturbed
bottomland meadows; disturbed sites that have shade during part
of each day |
Virginia
spiraea
(Spirea virginiana) |
Threatened |
Scioto |
Stream
banks and floodplains |
Small
whorled pogonia
(Isotria medeoloides) |
Threatened |
Hocking,
Scioto |
Dry
woodland; upland sites in mixed forests (second or third growth
stage) |
1Rational for addition of counties for rayed bean: These counties have been included for the rayed bean based upon current and historical occurrence data. Since 2004, three extant rayed bean populations have been discovered in Ohio streams. Two of these three populations were thought to be extirpated prior to the discoveries and the third population was not known from historical data. Therefore, we feel it is prudent to make our list of counties where the rayed bean may be present reflective of a conservative approach to section 7 consultation under the Endangered Species Act. The rayed bean should be considered potential present in any county on our list where suitable habitat occurs.
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