List of endangered species in Virginia
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Below is a list of the endangered and threatened animal and plant species in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States.
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[edit] Animals
[edit] Mammals
- Gray bat (Myotis grisescens)
- Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis)
- Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus)
- North American Cougar (Puma concolor couguar)
- West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus)
- Dismal Swamp southeastern shrew (Sorex longirostris fisheri)
- Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel (Sciurus niger cinereus)
- Virginia northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus fuscus)
- Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
- Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
- Right whale (Balaena glacialis)
[edit] Birds
- Piping plover (Charadrius melodus)
- Roseate tern (Sterna dougallii dougallii)
- Red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis)
- Kirtland’s Warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii)
[edit] Reptiles
- Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)
- Hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
- Kemp's ridley (Lepidochelys kempii)
- Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
- Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta)
- Bog turtle (Clemmys muhlenbergii)
[edit] Amphibians
- Shenandoah salamander (Plethodon shenandoah)
[edit] Fish
- Slender chub (Erimystax cahni)
- Spotfin chub (Cyprinella monacha)
- Duskytail darter (Etheostoma percnurum)
- Roanoke logperch (Percina rex)
- Shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum)
- Blackside dace (Phoxinus cumberlandensis)
[edit] Insects
- Northeastern beach tiger beetle (Cicindela dorsalis dorsalis)
- Mitchell’s satyr (Neonympha mitchellii)
[edit] Crustaceans
- Lee County cave isopod (Lirceus usdagalun)
- Madison cave isopod (Antrolana lira)
[edit] Molluscs
- Virginia fringed mountain snail (Polygyriscus virginianus)
[edit] Clams
- Purple bean (Villosa perpurpurea)
- Cumberlandian combshell (Epioblasma brevidens)
- Fanshell (Cyprogenia stegaria)
- Yellowfin madtom (Noturus flavipinnis)
- Appalachian monkeyface (Quadrula sparsa)
- Cumberland monkeyface (Quadrula intermedia)
- Pink mucket (Lampsilis abrupta)
- Oyster mussel (Epioblasma capsaeformis)
- Birdwing pearlymussel (Conradilla caelata)
- Cracking pearlymussel (Hemistena lata)
- Dromedary pearlymussel (Dromus dromas)
- Green blossom pearlymussel (Epioblasma torulosa gubernaculum)
- Littlewing pearlymussel (Pegias fabula)
- Finerayed pigtoe (Fusconaia cuneolus)
- Rough pigtoe (Pleurobema plenum)
- Shiny pigtoe (Fusconaia cor)
- Rough rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica strigillata)
- Tan riffleshell (Epioblasma florentina walkeri)
- James spinymussel (Pleurobema collina)
- Dwarf wedgemussel (Alasmidonta heterodon)
[edit] Plants
- Sensitive joint-vetch (Aeschynomene virginica)
- Shale barren rock-cress (Arabis serotina)
- Virginia round-leaf birch (Betula uber)
- Small-anthered bittercress (Cardamine micranthera)
- Smooth purple coneflower (Echinacea laevigata)
- Virginia sneezeweed (Helenium virginicum)
- Swamp pink (Helonias bullata)
- Peter's Mountain mallow (Iliamna corei)
- Small whorled pogonia (Isotria medeoloides)
- Eastern prairie fringed orchid (Platanthera leucophaea)
- Michaux's sumac (Rhus michauxii)
- American chaffseed (Schwalbea americana)
- Northeastern bulrush (Scirpus ancistrochaetus)
- Virginia spiraea (Spiraea virginiana)
