Section 7 Consultation Technical Assistance
Life
History Information for Listed and Candidate Species
MAMMALS | BIRDS | REPTILES | AMPHIBIANS | FISHES |CLAMS | SNAILS | INSECTS | CRUSTACEANS | PLANTS
MAMMALS
Canada
lynx ( Lynx canadensis)
Ecology
and Conservation of Lynx in the United States
Fact
Sheet (PDF)
FWS Canada Lynx website
Gray
bat (Myotis grisescens)
Fact sheet
Southeast U.S.
Fact Sheet
Indiana
bat (Myotis sodalis)
Indiana Bat Fact Sheet
Indiana Bat Recovery
Plan (1983) - this is a large PDF file (7MB)
Indiana Bat Recovery Plan - Draft of First Revision (2007)
Summary of Indiana Bat Ecology
Summer Life History Information for Michigan
Indiana
Bat Information by the USGS Biological Survey
Northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis)
Fact Sheet
Final Listing Rule (includes Life History information)
Final 4(d) Rule
Interim Conference and Planning Guidance (includes life history information and comparison to Indiana bat)
Ozark
big-eared bat (Plecotus townsendii ingens)
Fact sheet
Species Account
BIRDS
Kirtland's
warbler(Dendroica kirtlandii)
Fact sheet
Working
Together to Save a Special Bird....managing the forest for the
Kirtland's warbler (a fact sheet)
Species Abstract (4 page PDF) Michigan Natural Features Inventory
Background
Least tern (Sterna antillarum) - Interior population
Fact sheet
Recovery
Plan
Piping plover (Charadrius melodus) - Great Lakes
population
Fact sheet
Recovery
Plan (PDF)
Species Abstract (4 page PDF) Michigan Natural Features's Inventory
Sprague's Pipit (Anthus spragueii)
This is a candidate species
Species Profile
REPTILES
Copperbelly water snake (Nerodia erythrogaster
neglecta)
Fact Sheet
Background
Eastern Massasauga (Sistrurus catenatus catenatus)
This is a candidate species
Fact Sheet
Eastern massasauga candidate form
Species Abstract (4 page PDF) Michigan Natural Features Inventory
AMPHIBIANS
Ozark hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi)
Fact sheet
Federal Register Final Rule: Endangered Status for the Ozark Hellbender Salamander (94-page PDF)
Background
FISHES
Arkansas darter (Etheostoma cragini)
Arkansas Darter Candidate Form (PDF)
Grotto sculpin (Cottus specus)
Grotto Sculpin Home
Grotto Sculpin Fact Sheet
Grotto Sculpin Final Rule to List as Endangered (includes life history and habitat information)
Neosho
madtom (Noturus placidus)
Fact sheet
Niangua
darter (Etheostoma nianguae)
Fact sheet
Ozark
cavefish (Amblyopsis rosae)
Fact Sheet
Pallid
sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus)
Fact sheet
Scioto
madtom (Noturus trautmani)
Fact Sheet
Topeka
shiner (Notropis topeka)
Fact Sheet
Background
CLAMS
Clubshell (Pleurobema clava)
Fact sheet
Species
Account
Species Abstract (2 page PDF) Michigan Natural Features's Inventory
Cracking
pearlymussel (Hemistena lata)
Fact sheet
Recovery
Plan
Curtis'
pearlymussel (Epioblasma florentina curtisi)
Fact sheet
Fanshell (Cyprogenia stegaria)
Fact sheet
Fat
pocketbook (Potamilus capax)
Fact sheet
Higgins eye pearlymussel (Lampsilis
higginsii)
Fact Sheet
Recovery
Plan: first revision - PDF May 2004
Neosho mucket (Lampsilis rafinesqueana)
This is a candidate species
Neosho Mucket Candidate Form (PDF)
Northern
riffleshell (Epioblasma torulosa rangiana)
Fact sheet
Species Abstract (2 page PDF) Michigan Natural Features's Inventory
Orange-footed
pearlymussel (=pimple back) (Plethobasus cooperianus (p.
striatus))
Fact sheet
Pink
mucket pearlymussel (Lampsilis orbiculata (=l. abrupta))
Fact sheet
Purple
cat's paw pearlymussel (Epioblasma (=l. dysnomia) obliquata
obliquata)
Fact sheet
USFWS Reynoldsburg Ohio Field Office's Fact
Sheet
Rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica)
This is a candidate species
Rabbitsfoot Candidate Form (65-page PDF)
Species Profile
Rayed Bean (Villosa fabalis)
Fact Sheet
Background
Species Profile
Species Abstract (2 page PDF) Michigan Natural Features's Inventory
Ring
pink (=golf stick pearly) (Obovaria retusa)
Fact sheet
Rough
pigtoe (Pleurobema plenum)
Fact sheet
Scaleshell (Leptodea leptodon)
Fact Sheet
Draft
Recovery Plan (PDF)
Sheepnose (Plethobasus cyphyus)
Status: Endangered
Fact Sheet
Background
Species Profile
Snuffbox (Epioblasma triquetra)
Factsheet
Background
Species Profile
Spectaclecase (Cumberlandia monodonta)
Endangered
Fact Sheet
Background
Species Profile
Tubercled-blossom
pearlymussel (Epioblasma torulosa torulosa)
Fact sheet
White cat's paw pearlymussel (Epioblasma obliquata perobliqua)
Fact sheet
Species Abstract (2 page PDF) Michigan Natural Features's Inventory
White
wartyback pearlymussel (Plethobasus cicatricosus)
Fact sheet
Winged
maple leaf (Quadrula fragosa)
Fact sheet
Background
Species Profile
Recovery
Plan (pdf file; 359 pages)
SNAILS
Iowa
Pleistocene snail (Discus macclintocki)
Fact
Sheet
Tumbling
Creek Cavesnail (Antrobia culveri)
Fact
Sheet
Recovery
Plan (September 22, 2003) - PDF 3.5MB; 108 pages
INSECTS
American
burying beetle (Nicrophorus
americanus) (=giant carrion)
Fact Sheet
Background
Dakota Skipper (Hesperia dacotae)
Fact Sheet
Final Listing Rule (contains Life History information)
Dakota Skipper Conservation Guidelines 
(updated May 2016)
Dakota Skipper Section 7 Consultation Guidance (updated May 2016)
Hine's
emerald dragonfly (Somatochlora hineana)
Fact Sheet
Recovery Plan
Species Abstract (3 page PDF) Michigan Natural Features's Inventory Abstract
Hungerford's
crawling water beetle (Brychius hungerfordi Spangler)
Fact Sheet
Draft
Recovery Plan
Species Abstract (4 page PDF) Michigan Natural Features's Inventory Abstract
Karner
blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis
Fact Sheet
Karner Blue Home
Recovery
Plan PDF 1.6MB; 293 pages
The Wisconsin DNR Karner blue web page has High Potential Range Maps in Wisconsin. Scroll to the middle of the page for links to the maps.
Species Abstract (6 page PDF) Michigan Natural Feature's Inventory
Mitchell's
satyr butterfly (Neonympha mitchellii mitchellii)
Fact
Sheet
Recovery Plan - PDF:
7.9 MB; 81 pages
Species Abstract (4 page PDF) Michigan Natural Feature's Inventory
Poweshiek Skipperling (Oarisma poweshiek)
Fact Sheet
Final Listing Rule (contains Life History information)
Rattlesnake-master Borer Moth (Papaipema eryngii)
This is a Candidate Species
Federal Register Notice of 12-Month Finding: Listing Warranted but Precluded (19-Page PDF )
Crustaceans
cave crayfish, no common name (Cambarus aculabrum)
crayfish (Cambarus aculabrum) species profile
Illinois cave amphipod (Gammarus acherondytes)
Fact Sheet
Questions and Answers about the Illinois Cave Amphipod
Illinois Cave Amphipod Recovery Plan
PLANTS
American hart's-tongue fern(Asplenium
scolopendrium var. americanum)
Fact Sheet
Species Abstract (3 page PDF) Michigan Natural Features's Inventory Abstract
Species Profile
Decurrent false aster(Boltonia decurrens)
Decurrent False Aster Home
Fact sheet
Dwarf lake iris (Iris lacustris)
Fact sheet
Species Abstract (3 page PDF) Michigan Natural Features's Inventory Abstract
Eastern prairie fringed orchid (Platanthera
leucophaea)
Fact sheet
Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid
Recovery Plan (pdf file 868KB; 63 pages)
Species Abstract (3 page PDF) Michigan Natural Features's Inventory Abstract
S7 Guidance for Cook, Dupage, Kane, Lake McHenry and Will Counties, Illinois: Determining whether eastern prairie fringed orchid (Platanthera leucophaea) may be present in a proposed project area in the following northeastern Illinois counties: Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will.
Fassett's locoweed (Oxytropis campestris
var. chartacea)
Fassett's Home
Fact sheet
Geocarpon (no common name) (Geocarpon minimum)
Fact sheet
Southeast
Region Species Account
Recovery Plan
Houghton's
goldenrod (Solidago houghtonii)
Fact sheet
Species Abstract (3 page PDF) Michigan Natural Feature's Inventory
Lakeside
daisy(Hymenoxys acaulis var. glabra)
Fact sheet
USFWS Chicago Field Office's Species
Spotlight
USFWS Reynoldsburg Ohio Field Office's Fact
Sheet
Species Abstract (3 page PDF) Michigan Natural Features's Inventory Abstract
Leafy
prairie-clover (Delea foliosa)
Fact sheet
USFWS Chicago Field Office's Species
Spotlight
Southeast
Region Species Account
Recovery Plan (PDF; 5.87MB)
Leedy's
roseroot (Rhodiola integrifolia ssp. leedyi)
Fact sheet
Minnesota DNR Profile
5-Year Review
Recovery Plan (PDF )
Mead's
milkweed (Asclepias meadii)
Mead's Milkweed Home
Fact sheet
USFWS Chicago Field Office's Species
Spotlight
Recovery
Plan (PDF 1.2MB; 131 pages)
Michigan
monkey-flower (Mimulus michiganensis)
Fact sheet
Species Abstract (3 page PDF) Michigan Natural Feature's Inventory
Minnesota
dwarf trout lily (Erythronium propullans)
Minnesota Dwarf Trout Lily Home
Minnesota Dwarf Trout Lily S7 Guidance
Fact sheet
Missouri
bladder-pod (Physaria filiformis)
Missouri Bladder-pod Home
Fact sheet
Northern
monkshood (Aconitum noveborancense)
Fact sheet
Pitcher's
thistle (Cirsium pitcheri)
Fact sheet
USFWS Chicago Field Office's Species
Spotlight
Pitcher's
Thistle Recovery Plan
Species Abstract (3 page PDF) Michigan Natural Features's Inventory Abstract
Pondberry (Lindera
melissifolia)
Southeast
Region Species Account
Pondberry Recovery Plan (PDF; 4MB)
Prairie
bush clover (Lespedeza leptostachya)
Fact sheet
Price's
potato-bean (Apios priceana)
Fact sheet
Running
buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum)
Fact
sheet
Recovery Plan: first revision
USFWS Reynoldsburg Ohio Field Office's Fact
Sheet
Short's
goldenrod (Solidago shortii)
Southeast
Region Species Account
Short's bladderpod (Lesquerella globosa)
This is a candidate species
Short's Bladderpod Candidate and Listing Priority Assessment Form
Small
whorled pogonia (Isotria medeoloides)
Fact Sheet
Small Whorled Pogonia Recovery Plan (PDF; 12.5MB)
Final Rule to Reclassify from Endangered to Threatened (PDF) This Final Rule includes information on life history, habitat, and range.
Virginia
sneezeweed (Helenium virginicum)
Final Rule to List as Threatened (PDF) The Final Rule includes life history and habitat information.
Virginia
spiraea (Spiraea virginiana)
Southeast
Region Species Account
Western
prairie fringed orchid (Platanthera praeclara)
Fact sheet
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