Ohio

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)