Environment of Iowa - Threatened and Endangered Species of Iowa

Threatened and Endangered Species of Iowa

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service maintains lists of threatened and endangered species in Iowa.

List of federally endangered animal species in Iowa:

  • Indiana Bat (Myotis sodalis)
  • Higgins Eye pearlymussel (Lampsilis higginsii)
  • Topeka Shiner (Notropis topeka)
  • Iowa Pleistocene Snail (Discus macclintocki)
  • Pallid Sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus)
  • Least interior Tern (Sterna antillarum)

List of federally threatened animal species in Iowa:

  • Piping plover (Charadrius melodus)

List of extirpated federally endangered species (no longer in Iowa):

  • American Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus americanus)
  • Winged Mapleleaf (Quadrula fragosa)
  • Scaleshell Mussel (Leptodea leptodon)
  • Orangefoot Pimpleback Pearlymussel (Plethobasus cooperianus)
  • Fat Pocketbook (Potamilus capax)
  • Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)*
  • Gray Western Great Lakes Wolf (Canis lupus)*

-* Note: Wolves occasionally reappear in Iowa, roaming south from home ranges in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

List of federally threatened plant species in Iowa:

  • Prairie Bush-Clover (Lespedeza leptostachya)
  • Mead's Milkweed (Asclepias meadii)
  • Northern Wild Monkshood (Aconitum noveboracense)
  • Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid (Platanthera leucophaea)
  • Western Prairie Fringed Orchid (Platanthera praeclara)

List of extinct animal species that historically lived in Iowa:

  • Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis)
  • Passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius)

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