PURPOSE: This amendment adds to the state endangered species list two 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.
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Title 3 – Department of Conservation
Division 10 – Conservation Commission
Chapter 4 – Wildlife Code: General Provisions
Proposed Amendment
Proposed Amendment
(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.
(H) Other Invertebrates: American burying beetle, Hine’s emerald dragonfly, Tumbling Creek cavesnail.
(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.
PUBLIC COST: This proposed amendment will not cost state agencies or political subdivisions more than five hundred dollars ($500) in the aggregate.
PRIVATE COST: This proposed amendment will not cost private entities more than five hundred dollars ($500) in the aggregate.