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Threatened and Endangered Animals of Texas

Texas Animals Protected by the Endangered Species Act

By Laura Klappenbach, About.com

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The following list is an adaptation of data published at the The US Fish & Wildlife Service's Endangered Species Program Website. For the most current data, please refer to US Fish & Wildlife Service database (TESS).

Amphipod, Peck's cave (Stygobromus (=Stygonectes) pecki)
Bat, Mexican long-nosed (Leptonycteris nivalis)
Bear, Louisiana black (Ursus americanus luteolus)
Beetle, American burying (Nicrophorus americanus)
Beetle, Coffin Cave mold (Batrisodes texanus)
Beetle, Comal Springs dryopid (Stygoparnus comalensis)
Beetle, Comal Springs riffle (Heterelmis comalensis)
Beetle, Helotes mold (Batrisodes venyivi)
Beetle, Kretschmarr Cave mold (Texamaurops reddelli)
Beetle, Tooth Cave ground (Rhadine persephone)
Crane, whooping except where EXPN (Grus americana)
Curlew, Eskimo (Numenius borealis)
Darter, fountain (Etheostoma fonticola)
Falcon, northern aplomado (Falco femoralis septentrionalis)
Flycatcher, southwestern willow (Empidonax traillii extimus)
Gambusia, Big Bend (Gambusia gaigei)
Gambusia, Clear Creek (Gambusia heterochir)
Gambusia, Pecos (Gambusia nobilis)
Gambusia, San Marcos (Gambusia georgei)
Ground beetle, [unnamed] (Rhadine exilis)
Ground beetle, [unnamed] (Rhadine infernalis)
Harvestman, Bee Creek Cave (Texella reddelli)
Harvestman, Bone Cave (Texella reyesi)
Harvestman, Cokendolpher Cave (Texella cokendolpheri)
Jaguar (Panthera onca)
Jaguarundi, Gulf Coast (Herpailurus (=Felis) yagouaroundi cacomitli)
Manatee, West Indian (Trichechus manatus)
Margay Mexico southward (Leopardus (=Felis) wiedii)
Meshweaver, Braken Bat Cave (Cicurina venii)
Meshweaver, Government Canyon Bat Cave (Cicurina vespera)
Meshweaver, Madla's Cave (Cicurina madla)
Meshweaver, Robber Baron Cave (Cicurina baronia)
Minnow, Devils River (Dionda diaboli)
Minnow, Rio Grande silvery (Hybognathus amarus)
Ocelot (Leopardus (=Felis) pardalis)
Owl, Mexican spotted (Strix occidentalis lucida)
Pelican, brown except U.S. Atlantic coast, FL, AL (Pelecanus occidentalis)
Plover, piping except Great Lakes watershed (Charadrius melodus)
Prairie-chicken, Attwater's greater (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri)
Pseudoscorpion, Tooth Cave (Tartarocreagris texana)
Pupfish, Comanche Springs (Cyprinodon elegans)
Pupfish, Leon Springs (Cyprinodon bovinus)
Salamander, Barton Springs (Eurycea sosorum)
Salamander, San Marcos (Eurycea nana)
Salamander, Texas blind (Typhlomolge rathbuni)
Sawfish, smalltooth (Pristis pectinata)
Sea turtle, green except where endangered (Chelonia mydas)
Sea turtle, hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata)
Sea turtle, Kemp's ridley (Lepidochelys kempii)
Sea turtle, leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea)
Sea turtle, loggerhead (Caretta caretta)
Shiner, Arkansas River Arkansas R. Basin (Notropis girardi)
Snail, Pecos assiminea (Assiminea pecos)
Snake, Concho water (Nerodia paucimaculata)
Spider, Government Canyon Bat Cave (Neoleptoneta microps)
Spider, Tooth Cave (Leptoneta myopica)
Tern, least interior pop. (Sterna antillarum)
Toad, Houston (Bufo houstonensis)
Vireo, black-capped (Vireo atricapilla)
Warbler (=wood), golden-cheeked (Dendroica chrysoparia)
Whale, finback (Balaenoptera physalus)
Whale, humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae)
Wolf, gray Lower 48 States, except where delisted and where EXPN. Mexico. (Canis lupus)
Wolf, red except where EXPN (Canis rufus)
Woodpecker, red-cockaded (Picoides borealis)

Source

US Fish & Wildlife Service. 'Threatened and Endangered Species (Texas)' (On-line), The Endangered Species Program. Accessed April 29, 2008.

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