Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 3 - DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION › Division 10 - Conservation Commission › Chapter 4 - Wildlife Code: General Provisions › Section 3 CSR 10-4.111 - Endangered Species

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment adds to the state endangered
				  species list two (2) crayfish species found in the St. Francis River watershed
				  and a freshwater mussel species found in the Black, Current, Spring, and St.
				  Francis river watersheds that have undergone significant declines and received
				  federal listing as threatened species.
(1) The importation, transportation, sale,
				purchase, taking, or possession of any endangered species of wildlife, or hides
				or other parts thereof, or the sale or possession with intent to sell of any
				article made in whole or in part from the skin, hide, or other parts of any
				endangered species of wildlife is prohibited; provided, that this rule shall
				not apply to legally acquired wildlife held under permit or held by a public
				zoo or museum or to articles manufactured before January 1, 1973. Endangered
				wildlife taken legally outside Missouri may be imported, transported, or
				possessed, but may not be sold or purchased without written approval of the
				director.
(2) The exportation,
				transportation, or sale of any endangered species of plant or parts thereof, or
				the sale of or possession with intent to sell any product made in whole or in
				part from any parts of any endangered species of plant is prohibited.
(3) For the purpose of this rule, endangered
				species of wildlife and plants shall include the following native species
				designated as endangered in Missouri:
(A)
				Mammals: gray bat, Ozark big-eared bat, Indiana bat, northern long-eared bat,
				black-tailed jackrabbit, spotted skunk;
(B) Birds: northern harrier, interior least
				tern, Swainson's warbler, snowy egret, king rail, Bachman's sparrow, American
				bittern, greater prairie-chicken;
(C) Reptiles: western chicken turtle,
				Blanding's turtle, yellow mud turtle, Mississippi green watersnake, eastern
				massasauga, prairie massasauga;
(D)
				Amphibians: eastern hellbender, Ozark hellbender;
(E) Fishes: lake sturgeon, pallid sturgeon,
				taillight shiner, Neosho madtom, spring cavefish, harlequin darter, goldstripe
				darter, cypress minnow, central mudminnow, crystal darter, swamp darter, Ozark
				cavefish, Niangua darter, Sabine shiner, mountain madtom, redfin darter,
				longnose darter, flathead chub, Topeka shiner, grotto sculpin;
(F) Mussels: Curtis pearlymussel, Higgins'
				eye, pink mucket, fat pocketbook, ebonyshell, elephant ear, winged mapleleaf,
				sheepnose, snuffbox, scaleshell, spectaclecase, Neosho mucket, rabbitsfoot,
				salamander mussel, slippershell mussel, western fanshell;
(G) Crayfish: Big Creek crayfish, Caney
				Mountain Cave crayfish, coldwater crayfish, Spring River crayfish, St. Francis
				River crayfish;
(H) Other
				Invertebrates: American burying beetle, Hine's emerald dragonfly, Tumbling
				Creek cavesnail; and
(I) Plants:
				small whorled pogonia, Mead's milkweed, decurrent false aster, Missouri
				bladderpod, geocarpon, running buffalo clover, pondberry, eastern prairie
				fringed orchid, western prairie fringed orchid, Virginia sneezeweed.