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Threatened and Endangered Animals of West Virginia

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West Virginia Animals Protected by the Endangered Species Act

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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).

Bat, gray (Myotis grisescens)
Bat, Indiana (Myotis sodalis)
Bat, Virginia big-eared (Corynorhinus (=Plecotus) townsendii virginianus)
Beetle, American burying (Nicrophorus americanus)
Clubshell Entire Range; Except where listed as Experimental Populations (Pleurobema clava)
Curlew, Eskimo (Numenius borealis)
Fanshell (Cyprogenia stegaria)
Isopod, Madison Cave (Antrolana lira)
Mucket, pink (pearlymussel) (Lampsilis abrupta)
Puma (=cougar), eastern (Puma (=Felis) concolor couguar)
Riffleshell, northern (Epioblasma torulosa rangiana)
Ring pink (mussel) (Obovaria retusa)
Salamander, Cheat Mountain (Plethodon nettingi)
Snail, flat-spired three-toothed (Triodopsis platysayoides)
Spinymussel, James (Pleurobema collina)
Squirrel, Virginia northern flying (Glaucomys sabrinus fuscus)
Wolf, gray (Canis lupus)

Source

US Fish & Wildlife Service. 'Threatened and Endangered Species (West Virginia)' (On-line), The Endangered Species Program. Accessed April 30, 2008.

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