ODNR Division of Wildlife - Wild Resources - Endangered & Threatened Species

Ohio's Species of Concern

(updated January 2009)

 

NOTE: *E & *T denote federal (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) listed endangered and threatened species respectively.

              MAMMALS

 

Pygmy shrew Sorex hoyi
Star-nosed mole Condylura cristata
Eastern small-footed bat Myotis subulatus
Rafinesque's big-eared bat Corynorhinus rafinesquii
Southern red-backed vole Clethrionomys gapperi
Woodland jumping mouse Napaeozapus insignis
Badger Taxidea taxus
Ermine Mustela erminea


              BIRDS    

Sharp-shinned hawk Accipiter striatus
Sedge wren Cistothorus platensis
Marsh wren Cistothorus palustris
Henslow's sparrow Ammodramus henslowii
Cerulean warbler Dendroica cerulea
Prothonotary warbler Protonotaria citrea
Black vulture Coragyps atratus
Bobolink Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Northern bobwhite Colinus virginianus
Common moorhen Gallinula chloropus
Great egret Ardea alba
Sora rail Porzana carolina
Virginia rail Rallus limicola

 

             REPTILES

Eastern box turtle Terrapene carolina
Blanding's turtle Emydoidea blandingii
False map turtle Graptemys pseudogeographica
Coal skink Eumeces anthracinus
Black king snake Lampropeltis getula nigra
Eastern garter snake (melanistic) Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
Rough green snake Opheodrys aestivus
Eastern fox snake Elaphe gloydi
Queen snake Regina septemvittata
Ground skink Scincella lateralis
Smooth earth snake Virginia valeriae
Smooth green snake Liochlorophis vernalis
Shorthead garter snake Thamnophis brachystoma

 

              AMPHIBIANS

Four-toed salamander Hemidactylium scutatum
Eastern cricket frog Acris crepitans crepitans

 

              FISH

Lake trout Salvelinus namaycush
Lake whitefish Coregonus clupeaformis
Burbot Lota lota
Muskellunge Esox masquinongy
River redhorse Moxostoma carinatum
Eastern sand darter Ammocrypta pellucida
Least darter Etheostoma microperca
Iowa darter Etheostoma exile
Spoonhead sculpin Cottus ricei
Longnose dace Rhinichthys cataractae
Blue catfish Ictalurus furcatus

 

              MOLLUSKS

Flat floater Anodonta suborbiculata
Purple wartyback Cyclonaias tuberculata
Wavy-rayed lampmussel Lampsilis fasciola
Round pig-toe Pleurobema sintoxia
Salamander mussel Simpsonaias ambigua
Deertoe Truncilla truncata
Elktoe Alasmidonta marginata
Kidneyshell Ptychobranchus fasciolaris
Creek heelsplitter Lasmigona compressa

 

              CRAYFISH

Great Lakes crayfish Orconectes propinquus
Northern crayfish Orconectes virilis

Allegheny crayfish		 Orconectes obscurus

 

              ISOPODS

Fern cave isopod Caecidotea filicispeluncae
Frost cave isopod Caecidotea rotunda

 

              PSEUDOSCORPIONS

Buckskin cave pseudoscorpion Apochthonius hobbsi

 

              DRAGONFLIES
Tiger spiketail Cordulegaster erronea

 

 

              CADDISFLIES
  Hydroptila chattanooga
  Asynarchus montanus
  Nemotaulius hostilis

 

              MAYFLIES

  Stenonema ithica

 

              MIDGES

  Cantopelopia gesta

         

             CRICKETS
Laricis tree cricket Oecanthus laricis

 

              BUTTERFLIES
Two-spotted skipper Euphyes bimacula
Dusted skipper Atrytonopsis hianna

 

              MOTHS

Milnei's looper moth Euchlaena milnei
Buck moth Hemileuca maia
One-eyed sphinx Smerinthus cerisyi
Precious underwing Catocala pretiosa
  Macrochilo bivittata
  Phalaenostola hanhami
  Paectes abrostolella
  Capis curvata
  Tarachidia binocula
  Apamea mixta
  Agroperina lutosa
Columbine borer Papaipema leucostigma
Bracken borer moth Papaipema pterisii
Osmunda borer moth Papaipema speciosissima
  Chytonix sensilis
  Amolita roseola
Goat sallow Homoglaea hircina
  Brachylomia algens
Purple arches Polia purpurissata
Scurfy quaker Homorthodes f. furfurata
  Trichosilia manifesta
  Agonopterix pteleae

 

              BEETLES

Six-banded longhorn beetle Dryobius sexnotatus
  Cicindela splendida
  Cicindela ancocisconensis
  Cicindela cursitans
  Cicindela cuprascens
  Cicindela macra