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Mississippi

Total Number of Listed and Candidate Species = 40

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Endangered & Threatened Species
Mammals (4)
Bear, American black - T
Bear, Louisiana black - T
Indiana bat - E(CH)
Manatee, West Indian (Florida) - E (CH)
Birds (6)
Eagle, bald - T
Crane, Mississippi sandhill - E(CH)
Pelican, brown - E
Piping Plover (interior) - T
Tern, least (interior) - E
red-cockaded woodpecker - E
Reptiles (9)
Snake, eastern indigo - T
Tortoise, gopher - T
green sea turtle - T
hawksbill sea turtle (carey) - E(CH)
Kemp's (Atlantic) ridley sea turtle - E
leatherback sea turtle - E(CH)
loggerhead sea turtle - T
yellow-blotched map turtle - T
Turtle, ringed map - T
Fishes (4)
Darter, bayou - T
Sturgeon, pallid - E
Sturgeon, gulf - T
Alabama sturgeon - E
Clams (11)
Heelsplitter, inflated - T
Stirrupshell - E
Mucket, orange-nacre - T
Moccasinshell, Alabama - T
Clubshell, southern - E
Clubshell, ovate - E
Clubshell, black - E
Combshell, southern - E
Pigtoe, flat (=Marshall's mussel) - E
Pigtoe, heavy (=Judge Tait's mussel) - E
Pocketbook, fat - E
Plants (3)
Chaffseed, American - E Pondberry - E Price's Potato-bean - T
Total Endangered = 21
Total Threatened = 16
Proposed & Candidate Animal Species
Fishes (2)
Sturgeon chub - C Sicklefin shub - C
Amphibians (1)
Mississippi Gopher Frog - P
Total Proposed = 1
Total Candidate = 2
Proposed & Candidate Plant Species
Total Proposed = 0
Total Candidate = 0
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