Kentucky's Threatened
and Endangered Species*
KEY TO STATUS:
E - Endangered
T - Threatened
PE - Proposed Endangered
PT - Proposed Threatened
*This list includes only federally listed species
NAME
|
SCIENTIFIC NAME
|
STATUS
|
PLANTS
|
| Price's potato-bean |
Apios priceana |
T |
| Braun's rock cress |
Arabis perstellata var. perstellata |
E |
| Cumberland rosemary |
Conradina verticillata |
T |
| Eggert's sunflower |
Helianthus eggertii |
T |
| Cumberland sandwort |
Minuartia cumberlandensis |
E |
| White-haired goldenrod |
Solidago albopilosa |
T |
| Short's goldenrod |
Solidago shortii |
E |
| Virginia spiraea |
Spiraea virginiana |
T |
| Running buffalo clover |
Trifolium stoloniferum |
E |
MUSSELS
|
| Cumberland elktoe |
Alasmidonta atropurpurea |
E |
| Fanshell |
Cyprogenia stegaria |
E |
| Cumberlandian combshell |
Epioblasma brevidens |
E |
| Oyster mussel |
Epioblasma capsaeformis |
E |
| Catspaw |
Epioblasma obliquata obliquata |
E |
| Northern riffleshell |
Epioblasma torulosa rangiana |
E |
| Pink mucket |
Lampsilis abrupta |
E |
| Ring pink |
Obovaria retusa |
E |
| Little-wing pearlymussel |
Pegias fabula |
E |
| Orange-foot pimpleback |
Plethobasus cooperianus |
E |
| Clubshell |
Pleurobema clava |
E |
| Rough pigtoe |
Pleurobema plenum |
E |
| Fat pocketbook |
Potamilus capax |
E |
| Cumberland bean |
Villosa trabalis |
E |
CRUSTACEANS
|
| Mammoth cave shrimp |
Palaemonias ganteri |
E |
INSECTS
|
| American burying beetle |
Nicrophorus americanus |
E |
FISH
|
| Relict darter |
Etheostoma chienense |
E |
| Duskytail darter |
Duskytail darter |
E |
| Palezone shiner |
Notropis albizonatus |
E |
| Blackside dace |
Phoxinus cumberlandensis |
T |
| Pallid sturgeon |
Scaphirhynchus albus |
E |
REPTILES
|
| Copperbelly water snake |
Nerodia erythrogaster neglecta |
PT |
BIRDS
|
| Bald eagle |
Haliaeetus leucocephalus |
T |
| Red-cockaded woodpecker |
Picoides borealis |
E |
| Interior least tern |
Sterna antillarum athalassos |
E |
MAMMALS
|
| Virginia big-eared bat |
Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus |
E |
| Gray bat |
Myotis grisescens |
E |
| Indiana bat |
Myotis sodalis |
E |
|
