Endangered Species of Iowa

Endangered Species: Iowa

Mammals
Indiana bat
Myotis sodalis
Endangered

Birds:

American peregrine falcon
Falco peregrinus anatum
Endangered

Bald eagle
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Threatened

Least tern
(Interior population)
Sterna antillarum
Endangered

Piping plover
Charadrius melodus
Threatened
Threatened
Threatened

Fish:

Pallid sturgeon
Scaphirhynchus albus
Endangered
Endangered

Topeka shiner
Notropis topeka
Proposed as Endangered

CLAMS (Freshwater Mussels, Unionids)
Higgins' eye pearlymussel
Lampsilis higginsi
Endangered

Snails:
Iowa Pleistocene snail
Discus macclintocki
Endangered

Plants:

Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid *Platanthera leucophaea* Threatened	Meads Milkweed Asclepias meadii Threatened
Northern Wild Monkshood Aconitum noveboracense Threatened	Prairie bush-clover Lespedeza leptostachya Threatened

Western prairie fringed orchid
Platanthera praeclara
Threatened

Endangered Species Act of 1973

Endangered Species Recovery Plans