Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 40 - Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks › Part 5 - Museum of Natural Science › Chapter 2 - Regulations regarding non-game and endangered species › Rule 40-5-2.4 - ENDANGERED AND THREATENED SPECIES: DESIGNATION AND REGULATIONS

Current through June 25, 2024
Public Notice M2 3357 is hereby amended.
A. The Official State List of Endangered
				Species is as follows:
MUSSELS:
Alabama Moccasinshell (
Medionidus
							 acutissimus
)
Black Clubshell (
Pleurobema curtum
)
Cumberlandian Combshell (
Epioblasma
							 brevidens
)
Delicate Spike (
Elliptio
							 arctata
)
Fat Pocketbook (
Potamilus
							 capax
)
Inflated Heelsplitter (
Potamilus
							 inflatus
)
Kidney Shell (
Ptychobranchus
							 fasciolaris
)
Monkeyface (
Quadrula
							 metanevra
)
Mucket (
Actinonaias
							 ligamentina
)
Orange-nacre Mucket (
Hamiota
							 perovalis
)
Ovate Clubshell (
Pleurobema
							 perovatum
)
Purple Wartyback (
Cyclonaias
							 tuberculata
)
Pyramid Pigtoe (
Pleurobema
							 rubrum
)
Rabbitsfoot (
Quadrula cylindrica
							 cylindrica
)
Sheepnose (
Plethobasus
							 cyphyus
)
Slabside Pearlymussel (
Lexingtonia
							 dolabelloides
)
Snuffbox (
Epioblasma
							 triquetra
)
Southern Clubshell (
Pleurobema
							 decisum
)
Southern Combshell (
Epioblasma
							 penita
)
Southern Pink Pigtoe (
Pleurobema
							 taitianum
)
Southern Round Pigtoe (
Pleurobema
							 marshalli
)
Spike (
Elliptio dilatata
)
Stirrupshell (
Quadrula
							 stapes
)
CRAYFISH:
Camp Shelby Burrowing Crayfish (
Fallicambarus
							 gordoni
)
INSECTS:
American Burying Beetle (
Nicrophorus
							 americanus
)
Mitchells Satyr Butterfly
							 (
Neonympha mitchellii
							 mitchellii
)
FISH:
Alabama Shovelnose Sturgeon (
Scaphirhynchus
							 suttkusi
)
Bayou Darter (
Etheostoma
							 rubrum
)
Bigeye Shiner (
Notropis
							 boops
)
Crystal Darter (
Crystallaria
							 asprella
)
Frecklebelly Madtom (
Noturus
							 munitus
)
Greenside Darter (
Etheostoma
							 blennioides
)
Gulf Sturgeon (
Acipenser oxyrhinchus
							 desotoi
)
Ironcolor Shiner (
Notropis
							 chalybaeus
)
Northern Madtom (
Noturus
							 stigmosus)
Pallid Sturgeon (
Scaphirhynchus
							 albus
)
Pearl Darter (
Percina aurora
)
Slender Madtom (
Noturus
							 exilis
)
Slenderhead Darter (
Percina
							 phoxocephala
)
Southern Redbelly Dace (
Phoxinus
							 erythrogaster
) (Western Mississippi disjunct populations only)
Suckermouth Minnow (
Phenacobius
							 mirabilis
)
AMPHIBIANS:
Mississippi Gopher Frog (
Rana
							 sevosa
)
Cave Salamander (
Eurycea
							 lucifuga
)
Green Salamander (
Aneides
							 aeneus
)
Hellbender (
Cryptobranchus
							 alleganiensis)
One-toed Amphiuma (
Amphiuma
							 pholeter
)
Spring Salamander (
Gyrinophilus
							 porphyriticus
)
REPTILES:
Black Pine Snake (
Pituophis melanoleucus
							 lodingi
)
Eastern Indigo Snake (
Drymarchon corais
							 couperi
)
Rainbow Snake (
Farancia
							 erytrogramma
)
Southern Hognose Snake (
Heterodon
							 simus
)
Atlantic Ridley (
Lepidochelys
							 kempi
)
Black-knobbed Sawback (
Graptemys
							 nigrinoda
)
Gopher Tortoise (
Gopherus
							 polyphemus
)
Green Turtle (
Chelonia
							 mydas
)
Hawksbill Turtle (
Eretmochelys
							 imbricata
)
Leatherback Turtle (
Dermochelys
							 coriacea
)
Loggerhead Turtle (
Caretta
							 caretta
)
Alabama Redbelly Turtle (
Pseudemys
							 alabamensis
)
Ringed Sawback
(Graptemys
							 oculifera
)
Yellow-blotched Sawback (
Graptemys
							 flavimaculata
)
BIRDS:
American Swallow-tailed Kite
(
Elanoides
							 foricatus
)
Bachman's Warbler (
Vermivora
							 bachmanii
)
Bewick's Wren (
Thryomanes
							 bewickii
)
Brown Pelican (
Pelecanus
							 occidentalis
)
Ivory-billed Woodpecker (
Campephilus
							 principalis
)
Least Tern (
Sterna antillarum
)
							 (Interior population nesting along the Mississippi River only)
Mississippi Sandhill Crane (
Grus canadensis
							 pulla
)
Peregrine Falcon (
Falco
							 peregrinus
)
Piping Plover (
Charadrius
							 melodus
)
Red-cockaded Woodpecker (
Picoides
							 borealis
)
Snowy Plover (
Charadrius
							 alexandrinus
)
Wood Stork (
Mycteria
							 americana
)
MAMMALS:
Black Bear (
Ursus americanus
)
Florida Panther (
Puma concolor
							 coryi
)
Gray Bat (
Myotis grisescens
)
Indiana Bat (
Myotis sodalis
)
West Indian Manatee (
Trichechus
							 manatus
)
Whales, Order Cetacea, excluding Family
							 Delphinidae
B.
				It shall be unlawful for any person to take, possess, transport, export,
				process, sell or offer for sale or shipment, and for any common or contract
				carrier knowingly to transport or receive for shipment any species on the above
				list except as may be permitted by the Commission under Section
				49-5-111
				of the Nongame and Endangered Species Conservation Act.
Miss. Code Ann.
				  §§
										49-1-29,
				  49-4-4,
				  and
				  49-5-107.