List of endangered species in Virginia explained

Below is a list of the endangered and threatened animal and plant species in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States.

Animals

Mammals

• Gray bat (Myotis grisescens)
• Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis)
• Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus)
• West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus)
• Dismal Swamp southeastern shrew (Sorex longirostris fisheri)
• Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
• Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Birds

• Piping plover (Charadrius melodus)
• Roseate tern (Sterna dougallii dougallii)
• Red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis)
• Kirtland’s warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii)

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)

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)
• Yellowfin madtom (Noturus flavipinnis)

Insects

• Northeastern beach tiger beetle (Cicindela dorsalis dorsalis)
• Mitchell’s satyr (Neonympha mitchellii)

Crustaceans

• Lee County cave isopod (Lirceus usdagalun)
• Madison cave isopod (Antrolana lira)

Gastropods

• Virginia fringed mountain snail (Polygyriscus virginianus)

Bivalves

• Purple bean (Villosa perpurpurea)
• Cumberlandian combshell (Epioblasma brevidens)
• Fanshell (Cyprogenia stegaria)
• Appalachian monkeyface (Quadrula sparsa)
• Cumberland monkeyface (Quadrula intermedia)
• Pink mucket (Lampsilis abrupta)
• Oyster mussel (Epioblasma capsaeformis)
• Birdwing pearlymussel (Lemiox rimosus)
• Cracking pearly mussel (Hemistena lata)
• Dromedary pearly mussel (Dromus dromas)
• Green blossom pearlymussel (Epioblasma torulosa gubernaculum)
• Littlewing pearlymussel (Pegias fabula)
• Fine-rayed pigtoe (Fusconaia cuneolus)
• Rough pigtoe (Pleurobema plenum)
• Shiny pigtoe (Fusconaia cor)
• Rough rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica strigillata)
• Tan riffleshell (Epioblasma florentina walkeri)
• James River spinymussel (Pleurobema collina)
• Dwarf wedgemussel (Alasmidonta heterodon)

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)

References

• USFWS Threatened and Endangered Species System (TESS) for Virginia