Threatened / Endangered Species

Arkansas
Type and Number *Status Common Name Scientific Name
Animals - 20 Species      
  E American Burying (= Giant Carrion) Beetle Nicrophorus americanus
  E American Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus anatum
  T Arkansas Fatmucket Lampsilis powelli
  T Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
  E Cave [no common name] Crayfish Cambarus zophonastes
  E Cave [no common name] Crayfish Cambarus aculabrum
  E Curtis' Pearlymussel Epioblasma (= Dysnomia) florentina curtisi
  E Fat Pocketbook Potamilus (= Proptera) capax
  E Gray Bat Myotis grisescens
  E Indiana Bat Myotis sodalis
  E Least Tern Sterna antillarum
  T Leopard Darter Percina pantherina
  T Magazine Mountain Shagreen Mesodon magazinensis
  E Ouachita (= Wheeler's Pearly Mussel) Rock-Pocketbook Arkansia wheeleri
  E Ozark Big-Eared Bat Plecotus townsendii ingens
  T Ozark Cavefish Amblyopsis rosae
  E Pallid Sturgeon Scaphirhynchus albus
  E Pink Mucket Pearlymussel Lampsilis abrupta
  E Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Picoides borealis
  E Speckled Pocketbook Lampsilis streckeri
Plants - 5 Species      
  T Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid Platanthera leucophaea
  T (Plant, no common name) Geocarpon minimum
  E Harperella Ptilimnium nodosum (= fluviatile)
  E Pondberry Lindera melissifolia
  E Running Buffalo Clover Trifolium stoloniferum

* Status Key: T= Threatened, E= Endangered

 

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