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Iowa Threatened and Endangered Aquatic Species


For more information or to see a colored picture of each species listed below, see our fact sheets.

Fish
  • American brook lamprey
  • black redhorse
  • blacknose shiner
  • bluntnose darter
  • burbot
  • chestnut lamprey
  • freckled madtom
  • grass pickerel
  • lake sturgeon
  • least darter
  • orangethroat darter
  • pallid sturgeon
  • pearl dace
  • pugnose shiner
  • Topeka shiner
  • weed shiner
  • western sand darter


Turtles
  • ornate box turtle
  • stinkpot turtle
  • wood turtle
  • yellow mud turtle


Frogs
  • crawfish frog


Salamanders
  • blue-spotted salamander
  • central newt
  • mudpuppy


Freshwater Mussels
  • butterfly
  • buckhorn
  • bullhead
  • creek heelsplitter
  • cylinder
  • ellipse
  • Higgin's-eye pearly mussel
  • Ohio River pigtoe
  • Ozark pigtoe
  • purple pimpleback
  • slippershell
  • slough sandshell
  • spectacle case
  • strange floater
  • yellow sandshell


 

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