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California

Total Number of Listed and Candidate Species = 321

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Endangered & Threatened Species
Birds (17)
Eagle, bald - T Pelican, brown (California) - E California Condor - E(CH)
Aleutian Canada Goose - T Marbled murrelet - T Northern spotted owl - T
California clapper rail - E Light-footed clapper rail - E Yuma clapper rail - E
San Clemente loggerhead shrike - E California least tern - E Inyo CA towhee (brown) - T(CH)
Least Bell's vireo - E(CH) Western snowy plover (PCP) - T Gnatcatcher, coastal  California - T
Sparrow, San Clemente sage - T Southwestern willow flycatcher - E (CH)
Mammals (20)
Point Arden mountain  beaver - E Pacific pocket mouse - E Southern sea otter - T
Steller sea-lion - T San Joaquin kit fox - E Salt marsh harvest mouse - E
Southern sea otter - T Fresno kangaroo rat - E(CH) Giant kangaroo rat - E
Morro Bay kangaroo rat - E(CH) Stephens' kangaroo rat - E Tipton kangaroo rat - E
Amargosa Vole - E(CH) Mouse, Pacific pocket - E Jaguar - E
San Bernardino kangaroo rat - E Bighorn sheep (Peninsular ranges population) - E California bighorn sheep (Sierra Nevada pop.) - E
Riparian woodrat - E Riparian brush rabbit - E
Plants (160)
Loch lommond coyote-thistle - E Baker's Stickyseed (or Sonoma Sunshine) - E Beach layia - E
Burke's Goldfields - E Truckee barberry - E palmate-bracted bird's beak - E
salt marsh bird's beak - E San Clemente island broom - E San Clemente island bush-mallow - E
Butte County Meadowfoam - E Sebastopol Meadowfoam - E bakersfield cactus - E
spring-loving centaury - T pedate checker-mallow - E Santa Cruz cypress - E
Antioch Dunes evening-primrose - E Eureka valley evening-primrose - E San Benito evening-primrose - T
large-flowered fiddleneck - E Eureka Dune grass - E Solano Grass - E
Ash Meadows Gumplant - T San Clemente Island Indian paintbrush - E California jewelflower - E
Santa Barbara island liveforever - E Kern Mallow - E Presido Manzanita (Raven's) - E
San Diego mesa mint - E slender-petaled mustard - E Amargosa niterwort - E
McDonald's rock-cress - E Howell's pineflower - E San Mateo thornmint - E
Contra Costa wallflower - E Del Mar manzanita - E Orcutt's spineflower - E
Big-leaved crownbeard - T Encinitas baccharis - T Menzie's wallflower - E
Monterey gilia - E Clover lubpine - E Hoover's Woolly-star - T
Santa Ana River Woolly-star - E San Joaquin Wooly-threads - E Marsh sandwort - E
Gambel's watercress - E Otay Mesa mint - E California orcutt grass - E
San Diego button-celery - E Ben Lomond spineflower - E Robust spineflower - E
Ben Lomond wallflower - E Monteray spineflower - T Western lilly - E
Parish's daisy - T Cushenbury buckwheat - E Cushenbury milk-vetch - E
San Bernadino Mountains bladderpod - E Cushenbury oxytheca -E Chorro Creek bog thistle - E
Pismo clarkia - E Indian Knob mountainbalm - E California sea-blite - E
Morro manzanita - T Tiburon paintbrush - E Coyote ceanothus - E
Fountain thistle - E Presidio clarkia - E Pennell's bird's-beak - E
Santa Clara Valley dudleya - E San Mateo woolly sunflower - E White-rayed pentachaeta - E
Metcalf Canyon jewelflower - E Tiburon jewelflower - E Tiburon mariposa lily - T
Marin dwarf-flax - T Slender-horned spineflower - E Sonoma spineflower - E
Water howellia - T Stebbin's morning-glory - E Pine Hill ceanothus - E
Pine Hill flannelbush - E El Dorado bedstraw - E Layne's butterweed - T
Braunton’s milk-vetch - E Conejo dudleya - T Marcescent dudleya - T
Santa Monica Mountains dudleya - T Verity’s dudleya - T Lyon’s pentachaeta - E
Hartweg’s golden sunburst - E San Joaquin adobe sunburst - T Hairy Orcutt Grass - E
Sacramento Orcutt grass - E Greene’s tuctoria - E Fleshy owl’s-clover - T
Hoover’s spurge - T Colusa grass - T San Joaquin Valley Orcutt grass - T
Slender Orcutt grass - T San Francisco Lessingia - E Catalina Island mountain- mahogany - E
San Clemente Island woodland- star - E Santa Cruz Island rockcress - E Sonoma alopecurus - E
Clara Hunt’s milk-vetch - E white sedge - E Vine Hill clarkia - E
Pitkin Marsh lily - E Calistoga allocarya - E Napa bluegrass - E
Kenwood Marsh checker-mallow - E Showy Indian clover - E Suisun thistle - E
Soft bird’s-beak - E Pallid manzanita - T Coastal dunes milkvetch - E
Gowen cypress - T Yadon’s piperia - E Hickman’s potentilla - E
Monterey clover - E Bear Valley sandwort - T Ash-gray Indian paintbrush - T
Southern mountain wild buckwheat - T San Bernardino bluegrass - E California taraxacum - E
Hidden Lake bludcurls - T Chinese Camp brodiaea - T Springville clarkia - T
Mariposa pussypaws - T Red Hills vervain - T Lane Mountain milk-vetch - E
Coachella Valley milk-vetch - E Fish Slough milk-vetch - T Peirson's milk-vetch - T
Triple-ridged milk-vetch - E San Diego thornmint - T Laguna Beach liveforever - T
Otay Tarplant - T Willowy monardella - E Nevins barbery - E
Vail Lake ceanothus - T Mexican flannelbush - E Munz's Onion - E
San Jacinto Valley Crownscale - E Thread-leaved brodiaea - T Spreading navarretia - T
Ione buckwheat - E Ione manzanita - T Yreka phlox - E
Kneeland Prairie penny-cress - E Keck’s Checker-Mallow - E Purple amole - T
La Graciosa thistle - E Lompoc yerba santa - E Gaviota tarplant - E
Nipomo Mesa lupine - E Santa Cruz tarplant - T San Clemente island larkspur - E
Ventura Marsh milk-vetch - E
Fishes (29)
Bonytail chub - E(CH) Mohave tui chub - E Owens tui chub - E(CH)
Desert pupfish - E(CH) Owens pupfish - E Delta smelt - T(CH)
Colorado squawfish - E(CH) Unarmored threespine stickleback - E Lost river sucker - E
Modoc sucker - E(CH) Shortnose sucker - E Razorback sucker - E(CH)
Lahontan cutthroat trout - T Little Kern golden trout - T(CH) Paiute cutthroat trout - T
Goby, tidewater - E
Snake River Spring/Summer chinook salmon - T Snake River Winter chinook salmon - T
Central California Coast Coho Salmon   - T Northern California Coast coho salmon - T
Southern California Coast steelhead salmon - E
Central California Coast steelhead salmon  - T South-Central California Coast steelhead salmon   - T
Steelhead, Central Valley - T
Salmon, Central Valley spring- run chinook - T Salmon, California coastal chinook Redwood Creek
through Russian River pop.  - T
Trout, bull - T Santa Ana sucker - T Steelhead, Northern California - T
Crustaceans (7)
California freshwater shrimp - E Fairy shrimp, Riverside - E Fairy shrimp, Conservancy - E
Fairy shrimp, longhorn - E Fairy shrimp, vernal pool - T Tadpole shrimp, vernal pool - E
Fairy shrimp, San Diego - E
Insects (20)
Delta green ground beetle - T(CH) Lotis blue butterfly - E Valley elderberry longhorn beetle - T(CH)
Bay checkerspot butterfly - T El Segundo blue butterfly - E Lange's metalmark butterfly - E
Mission blue butterfly - E Myrtle silverspot butterfly - E Oregon silverspot butterfly - T(CH)
Palos Verde blue butterfly - E(CH) San Bruno elfin butterfly - E(CH) Smith's blue butterfly - E
Kern primrose sphinx moth - T Delhi sands flower-loving fly - E
Snails (1)
Morro shoulderband snail - E
Amphibians (5)
Desert slender salamander - E Santa Cruz long-toed salamander - E Arroyo southwestern toad - E
California red-legged frog - T California tiger salamander  - E
Reptiles (11)
Blunt-nosed leopard lizard - E Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard - T(CH) Island night lizard - T
San Francisco garter snake - E Desert tortoise - T(CH) Green sea turtle - E
Leatherback sea turtle - E(CH) Olive (Pacific) ridley sea turtle - E Snake, giant garter - T
Turtle, loggerhead sea - T Alameda whipsnake - T
Total Endangered = 186
Total Threatened = 84
Proposed & Candidate Animal Species
Mammals (1)
Buena Vista Lake ornate shrew - C
Birds (4)
Mountain plover - C Short-tailed albatross - P Sharptailed grouse - C
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - C
Amphibians (2)
Oregon spotted frog - C Mountain yellow-legged frog  - P
Fishes (4)
Cowhead Lake tui chub - P McCloud River redband trout - C Sacramento splittail - P
Trout, redband - C
Insects (1)
Ohlone Tiger Beetle - P
Crustaceans (1)
White Abalone - P
Total Proposed = 6
Total Candidate = 7
Proposed & Candidate Plant Species
Ramshaw sand-verbena - C Hoffman's rock-cress - P Santa Rosa Island manzanita - P
San Bruno Mountain manzanita - P Island barbery - P Soft-leaved paintbrush - P
hamaesyce herbstii - P Chamaesyce rockii - P Cammatta Canyon amole - C
Baker's larkspur - P Yellow larkspur - P
Santa Rosa Island dudlyea - P Santa Cruz Island dudleya - P Munchkin dudleya - P
Irish Hill buckwheat - C Red Mountain buckwheat - C Island bedstraw - P
Hoffman's gilia - P Island rush-rose - P Island alumroot - P
Contra Costa goldfields - P Two-flowered lathyrus - C Santa Cruz Island bush -mallow - P
Santa Cruz Island  malocothrix - P Island malocothrix - P Few-flowered navarretia - P
Many-flowered navarretia - P Lake County stonecrop - P Island phacelia - P
Red Mountain stoncrop - C Parish's sidalcea - C Keck's sidelcea - C
Red Mountain campion - C California dandelion - P Thlaspi californicum - P
Santa Cruz Island lacepod (=fringepod) - P Greene's orcutt grass - P San Diego Ambrosia - P
Total Proposed = 29
Total Candidate = 9
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