**THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES IN KENTUCKY**

**(46 Species as of February 8, 2007)**

> **Animals**
>
> [Mammals]{.underline}
>
> Gray bat *Myotis grisescens* **E**

\^ Indiana bat *Myotis sodalis* **E**

> Virginia big-eared bat *Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus* **E**
>
> [Birds]{.underline}
>
> Piping plover (migrant only) *Charadrius melodus* **T**

\* Whooping crane (migrant only) *Grus americana* **XN**

> Bald eagle *Haliaeetus leucocephalus* **T**
>
> Least tern *Sterna antillarum* **E**
>
> [Fishes]{.underline}
>
> Relict darter *Etheostoma chienense* **E**
>
> Duskytail darter *Etheostoma percnurum* **E**
>
> Palezone shiner *Notropis albizonatus* **E**
>
> Blackside dace *Phoxinus cumberlandensis* **T**
>
> Pallid sturgeon *Scaphirhynchus albus* **E**
>
> [Crustaceans]{.underline}

\^ Kentucky cave shrimp *Palaemonias ganteri* **E**

> [Mussels]{.underline}

\^ Cumberland elktoe *Alasmidonta atropurpurea* **E**

> Fanshell *Cyprogenia stegaria* **E**

\+ Dromedary pearlymussel *Dromus dromas* **E**

\^ Cumberlandian combshell *Epioblasma brevidens* **E**

\^ Oyster mussel *Epioblasma capsaeformis* **E**

\+ Yellow blossom *Epioblasma florentina florentina* **E**

> Tan riffleshell *Epioblasma florentina walkeri* **E**
>
> Catspaw *Epioblasma obliquata obliquata* **E**

\+ White Catspaw *Epioblasma obliquata perobliqua* **E**

> Northern riffleshell *Epioblasma torulosa rangiana* **E**

\+ Tubercled blossom *Epioblasma torulosa torulosa* **E**

\+ Cracking pearlymussel *Hemistena lata* **E**

> Pink mucket *Lampsilis abrupta* **E**

\+ Scaleshell *Leptodea leptodon* **E**

> Ring pink *Obovaria retusa* **E**
>
> Littlewing pearlymussel *Pegias fabula* **E**

\+ White wartyback *Plethobasus cicatricosus* **E**

> Orangefoot pimpleback *Plethobasus cooperianus* **E**
>
> Clubshell *Pleurobema clava* **E**
>
> Rough pigtoe *Pleurobema plenum* **E**
>
> Fat pocketbook *Potamilus capax* **E**

\+ Winged mapleleaf *Quadrula fragosa* **E**

> Cumberland bean *Villosa trabilis* **E**
>
> [Insects]{.underline}

\+ American burying beetle *Nicrophorus americanus* **E**

> **Plants**
>
> Price's potato-bean *Apios priceana* **T**

\^ Braun's rockcress *Arabis perstellata* **E**

> Cumberland sandwort *Arenaria cumberlandensis* **E**
>
> Cumberland rosemary *Conradina verticillata* **T**
>
> American chaffseed *Schwalbea americana* **E**
>
> Virginia spiraea *Spiraea virginiana* **T**
>
> White-haired goldenrod *Solidago albopilosa* **T**
>
> Short's goldenrod *Solidago shortii* **E**
>
> Running buffalo clover *Trifolium stoloniferum* **E**

**\^ Species for which Critical Habitat has been designated in
Kentucky**

> [Indiana bat]{.underline} -- Bat Cave, Carter County and Coach Cave,
> Edmonson County (41 FR 41914-41916, September 1976)
>
> [Kentucky cave shrimp]{.underline} -- Roaring River Passage, Mammoth
> Cave National Park (48 FR 46337-46342, October 1983)
>
> [Cumberland elktoe]{.underline} -- Big South Fork, Marsh Creek, and
> Rock Creek - McCreary County; Sinking Creek, Laurel County; Laurel
> Fork, Whitley County (69 FR 53136-53180, August 2004)
>
> [Cumberlandian combshell]{.underline} - Big South Fork, McCreary
> County; Buck Creek, Pulaski County (69 FR 53136-53180, August 2004)
>
> [Oyster mussel]{.underline} - Big South Fork, McCreary County; Buck
> Creek, Pulaski County (69 FR 53136-53180, August 2004)
>
> [Braun's rockcress]{.underline} - 14 areas in Franklin County and 3 in
> Owen County (69 FR 31460-31496, June 2004)

**\* Species designated as non-essential experimental population in
Kentucky**

**+ Federally listed species that is possibly extirpated from Kentucky
(species has not been observed in Kentucky for over 20 years; however,
habitat for the species is present and exhaustive searches to document
its status are incomplete)**

**Species listing status:** E, Endangered; T, Threatened; XN,
Experimental Population

**Candidates for Federal Listing in Kentucky**

**(13 Species as of February 8, 2007)**

> **Animals**
>
> [Fishes]{.underline}
>
> Cumberland darter *Etheostoma susanae*
>
> [Mussels]{.underline}
>
> Spectaclecase *Cumberlandia monodonta*

\+ Slabside pearlymussel *Lexingtonia dolabelloides*

> Sheepnose *Plethobasus cyphyus*
>
> Fluted kidneyshell *Ptychobranchus subtentum*

*+* Rayed bean *Villosa fabilis*

> [Insects]{.underline}
>
> Clifton cave beetle *Pseudanophthalmus caecus*
>
> Icebox cave beetle *Pseudanophthalmus frigidus*
>
> Surprising cave beetle *Pseudanophthalmus inexpectatus*
>
> Tatum cave beetle *Pseudanophthalmus parvus*
>
> Louisville cave beetle *Pseudanophthalmus troglodytes*
>
> **Plants**
>
> Lesquereux's bladderpod *Lesquerella globosa*
>
> White fringeless orchid *Platanthera integrilabia*

**+ Species that is possibly extirpated from Kentucky (species has not
been observed in Kentucky for over 20 years; however, habitat for the
species is present and exhaustive searches to document its status are
incomplete)**

> **Candidate Species** -- plant and animal taxa considered for possible
> addition to the federal list of Endangered and Threatened species.
> These are taxa for which the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) has
> on file sufficient information on biological vulnerability and
> threat(s) to support issuance of a proposal to list, but issuance of a
> proposed rule is currently precluded by higher priority listing
> actions (61 FR 7596-7613).
>
> Candidate species have no protection under the Endangered Species Act
> (ESA), but are listed above for early project planning consideration.
> Candidate species could be proposed or listed during the project
> planning period and would then be covered under Section 7 of the ESA.
> The Service advises an evaluation of potential effects on candidate
> species that may occur in a particular project area.