Illinois Threatened and Endangered Species List
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Student Page Illinois Threatened/Endangered Species — 2001 FISHES Threatened Endangered Ambystoma jeffersonianum (Jefferson salamander) Acipenser fulvescens (lake sturgeon) Hemidactylium scutatum Etheostoma camurum (bluebreast darter) (four-toed salamander) Etheostoma exile (Iowa darter) Hyla avivoca (bird-voiced treefrog) Etheostoma histrio (Harlequin darter) Pseudacris streckeri illinoensis Hybognathus hayi (cypress minnow) (Illinois chorus frog) Ichthyomyzon fossor (northern brook lamprey) Macrhybopsis gelida (sturgeon chub) Moxostoma valenciennesi (greater redhorse) REPTILES Nocomis micropogon (river chub) Endangered Notropis anogenus (pugnose shiner) Clemmys guttata (spotted turtle) Notropis boops (bigeye shiner) Kinosternon flavescens (Illinois mud turtle) Notropis heterolepis (blacknose shiner) Macroclemys temminckii Notropis maculatus (taillight shiner) (alligator snapping turtle) Notropis texanus (weed shiner) Masticophis flagellum (coachwhip) Noturus stigmosus (northern madtom) Nerodia fasciata (broad-banded water snake) Platygobio gracilis (flathead chub) Pseudemys concinna (river cooter) Pteronotropis hubbsi (bluehead shiner) Sistrurus catenatus catenatus Scaphirhynchus albus (pallid sturgeon)** (eastern massasauga) Thamnophis sauritus (eastern ribbon snake) Threatened Catostomus catostomus (longnose sucker) Threatened Coregonus artedi (cisco or lake herring) Clonophis kirtlandii (Kirtland’s snake) Fundulus diaphanus (banded killifish) Crotalus horridus (timber rattlesnake) Lampetra aepyptera (least brook lamprey) Elaphe guttata emoryi (great plains rat snake) Lepomis symmetricus (bantam sunfish) Emydoidea blandingii (Blanding’s turtle) Moxostoma carinatum (river redhorse) Heterodon nasicus (western hognose snake) Notropis chalybaeus (ironcolor shiner) Nerodia cyclopion Notropis heterodon (blackchin shiner) (Mississippi green water snake) Tantilla gracilis (flathead snake) AMPHIBIANS Endangered BIRDS Ambystoma platineum (silvery salamander) Endangered Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (hellbender) Ammodramus henslowii (Henslow’s sparrow) Desmognathus fuscus (dusky salamander) Asio flammeus (short-eared owl) Bartramia longicauda (upland sandpiper) Illinois Biodiversity Basics 93 Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Chicago Wilderness, World Wildlife Fund Student Page Illinois Threatened/Endangered Species – 2001 (continued) Botaurus lentiginosus (American bittern) MAMMALS Buteo swainsoni (Swainson’s hawk) Endangered Charadrius melodus (piping plover)** Corynorhinus rafinesquii Chlidonias niger (black tern) (eastern big-eared bat) Circus cyaneus (northern harrier) Myotis austroriparius (southeastern bat) Egretta caerulea (little blue heron) Myotis grisescens (gray bat)** Egretta thula (snowy egret) Myotis sodalis (Indiana bat)** Falco peregrinus (peregrine falcon) Neotoma floridana (eastern woodrat) Ictinia mississippiensis (Mississippi kite) Laterallus jamaicensis (black rail) Threatened Limnothlypis swainsonii Lontra canadensis (river otter) (Swainson’s warbler) Ochrotomys nuttalli (golden mouse) Nyctanassa violacea Oryzomys palustris (marsh rice rat) (yellow-crowned night-heron) Nycticorax nycticorax (black-crowned night-heron) INVERTEBRATES Pandion haliaetus (osprey) Endangered Phalaropus tricolor (Wilson’s phalarope) Snails Rallus elegans (king rail) Discus macclintocki (pleistocene disc)** Sterna antillarum (least tern)** Mussels Sterna forsteri (Forster’s tern) Cumberlandia monodonta Sterna hirundo (common tern) (spectacle case mussel) Thryomanes bewickii (Bewick’s wren) Cyprogenia stegaria (fanshell mussel)** Tympanuchus cupido Epioblasma triquetra (snuffbox mussel) (greater prairie-chicken) Lampsilis abrupta (pink mucket)** Tyto alba (common barn-owl) Lampsilis fasciola (wavy-rayed lampmussel) Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus Lampsilis higginsii (Higgins eye)** (yellow-headed blackbird) Obovaria subrotunda (round hickorynut mussel) Plethobasus cooperianus Threatened (orange-foot pimpleback)** Buteo lineatus (red-shouldered hawk) Plethobasus cyphyus (sheepnose mussel) Certhia americana (brown creeper) Pleurobema clava (clubshell mussel)** Gallinula chloropus (common moorhen) Pleurobema cordatum (Ohio pigtoe) Grus canadensis (sandhill crane) Pleurobema rubrum (pyramid pigtoe) Haliaeetus leucocephalus (bald eagle)* Potamilus capax Ixobrychus exilis (least bittern) (fat pocketbook pearly mussel)** Lanius ludovicianus (loggerhead shrike) Podilymbus podiceps (pied-billed grebe) 94 Illinois Biodiversity Basics Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Chicago Wilderness, World Wildlife Fund Student Page Illinois Threatened/Endangered Species – 2001 (continued) Ptychobranchus fasciolaris (kidneyshell mussel) Papaipema eryngii Quadrula cylindrica (rabbitsfoot mussel) (rattlesnake-master borer moth) Simpsonaias ambigua (salamander mussel) Toxolasma lividus (purple lilliput mussel) Threatened Villosa fabalis (rayed bean mussel) Mussels Villosa iris (rainbow mussel) Alasmidonta viridis (slippershell mussel) Villosa lienosa (little spectacle case mussel) Cyclonaias tuberculata (purple wartyback) Crustaceans Ellipsaria lineolata (butterfly) Caecidotea lesliei (isopod) Elliptio crassidens (elephant-ear mussel) Crangonyx anomalus (amphipod) Elliptio dilatata (spike) Crangonyx antennatus (amphipod) Fusconaia ebena (ebonyshell) Crangonyx packardi (amphipod) Ligumia recta (black sandshell) Gammarus acherondytes Crustaceans (Illinois cave amphipod)** Gammarus bousfieldi (Bousfield’s amphipod) Orconectes indianensis (Indiana crayfish) Dragonflies Orconectes kentuckiensis (Kentucky crayfish) Nannothemis bella (elfin skimmer) Orconectes lancifer (oxbow crayfish) Leafhoppers Orconectes placidus (crayfish) Aflexia rubranura Stygobromus iowae (Iowa amphipod) (redveined prairie leafhopper) Dragonflies Butterflies and Moths Somatochlora hineana Hesperia metea (cobweb skipper) (Hine’s emerald dragonfly)** Hesperia ottoe (ottoe skipper) Leafhoppers Speyeria idalia (regal fritillary) Paraphlepsius lupalus (leafhopper) Butterflies and Moths LICHENS Atrytone arogos (arogos skipper) Calephelis muticum (swamp metalmark) Endangered Phaeophyscia leana (Lea’s bog lichen) Lycaeides melissa samuelis (Karner blue butterfly)** PLANTS Endangered Adoxa moschatellina (moschatel) Alnus incana ssp. rugosa (speckled alder) Amelanchier interior (shadbush) Amelanchier sanguinea (shadbush) Ammophila breviligulata (beach grass) Amorpha nitens (smooth false indigo) Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (bearberry) Illinois Biodiversity Basics 95 Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Chicago Wilderness, World Wildlife Fund Student Page Illinois Threatened/Endangered Species – 2001 (continued) Artemisia dracunculus (false tarragon) Asclepias lanuginosa (woolly milkweed) Asclepias meadii (Mead’s milkweed)* Asclepias ovalifolia (oval milkweed) Asclepias stenophylla (narrow-leaved green milkweed) Asplenium bradleyi (Bradley’s spleenwort) Asplenium resiliens (black spleenwort) Astragalus crassicarpus var. trichocalyx (large ground plum) Astragalus tennesseensis (Tennessee milk-vetch) Bartonia paniculata (screwstem) Beckmannia syzigachne (American slough grass) Berberis canadensis (Allegheny barberry) Carex cryptolepis (sedge) Berchemia scandens (supple-jack) Carex decomposita (cypress-knee sedge) Betula alleghaniensis (yellow birch) Carex disperma (shortleaf sedge) Betula populifolia (gray birch) Carex echinata (little prickly sedge) Bidens beckii (water marigold) Carex garberi (elk sedge) Botrychium matricariifolium Carex gigantea (large sedge) (daisyleaf grape fern) Carex lucorum (sedge) Botrychium multifidum (northern grape fern) Carex nigromarginata (black-edged sedge) Botrychium simplex (grape fern) Carex oligosperma (few-seeded sedge) Bouteloua gracilis (blue grama) Carex physorhyncha (Bellow’s-beak sedge) Bumelia lanuginosa (wooly buckthorn) Carex reniformis (reniform sedge) Calamagrostis insperata (bluejoint grass) Carex striatula (lined sedge) Calla palustris (water arum) Carex trisperma (three-seeded sedge) Calopogon tuberosus (grass pink orchid) Carex tuckermanii (Tuckerman’s sedge) Camassia angusta (wild hyacinth) Carya pallida (pale hickory) Cardamine pratensis var. palustris Castilleja sessiliflora (cuckoo flower) (downy yellow painted cup) Carex alata (winged sedge) Ceanothus herbaceus (redroot) Carex arkansana (Arkansas sedge) Chamaesyce polygonifolia (seaside spurge) Carex aurea (golden sedge) Chimaphila maculata (spotted wintergreen) Carex brunnescens (brownish sedge) Chimaphila umbellata (pipsissewa) Carex canescens var. disjuncta (silvery sedge) Cimicifuga americana (American bugbane) Carex chordorrhiza (cordroot sedge) Carex crawfordii (crawford sedge) 96 Illinois Biodiversity Basics Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Chicago Wilderness, World Wildlife Fund Student Page Illinois Threatened/Endangered Species – 2001 (continued) Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) Fimbristylis vahlii (Vahl’s fimbristylis) Circaea alpina (small enchanter’s nightshade) Galactia mohlenbrockii (Boykin’s dioclea) Cladrastis lutea (yellowwood) Galium lanceolatum (wild licorice) Clematis crispa (blue jasmine) Galium virgatum (dwarf bedstraw) Clematis occidentalis (mountain clematis) Gaultheria procumbens (wintergreen) Clematis viorna (leatherflower) Geranium bicknellii (northern cranesbill) Collinsia violacea (violet collinsia) Glyceria arkansana (manna grass) Comptonia peregrina (sweet-fern) Gymnocarpium dryopteris (oak fern) Conioselinum chinense (hemlock parsley) Gymnocarpium robertianum (scented oak fern) Cornus canadensis (bunchberry) Hackelia americana (stickseed)