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Kentucky

Total Number of Listed and Candidate Species = 45

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Endangered & Threatened Species
Mammals (2)
Bat, Indiana - E Bat, gray - E
Birds (4)
Eagle, bald - T
Plover, piping (interior) - T
Tern, least (interior population) - E
Red-cockaded woodpecker - E
Fishes (4)
Dace, blackside - T
Pallid sturgeon - E
Relict Darter - E
Shiner, Palezone - E
Clams (21)
Pocketbook, fat - E
Pearlymussel, pink mucket - E
Fanshell - E
Mussel, ring pink - E
Mussel, winged mapleleaf - E
Pearly mussel, cracking - E
Pearly mussel, Cuberland bean - E
Pearly mussel, little-wing - E
Pearly mussel, orange-footed - E
Pearly mussel, purple cat's paw - E
Pearly mussel, tubercied- blossom - E
Pigtoe, rough - E
Riffle shell, tan - E
Riffleshell, northern - E
Shrimp, Kentucky Cave - E(CH)
Clubshell - E
Pearlymussel, dromedary - E
Pearlymussel, white wartyback - E
Cumberland elktoe - E
Oyster mussel - E
Cumberlandian combshell - E
Plants (9)
Clover, running buffalo - E
Cumberland, Rosemary - T
Goldenrod, Short's - E
Goldenrod, white-haired - T
Potato-bean, Price's - T
Sandwort, Cumberland - E
Spiraea, Virginia - T
Rock cress - E
Eggert’s sunflower - T
Total Endangered =32
Total Threatened = 8
Proposed & Candidate Animal Species
Reptiles (1)
Northern Copperbelly water snake - P
Fishes (2)
Sturgeon chub - C Sicklefin chub - C
Clams (2)
Rough rabbitsfoot (mussel) - P Scaleshell Mussell - P
Total Proposed = 3
Total Candidate = 2
Proposed & Candidate Plant Species
Total Proposed = 0
Total Candidate = 0
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