O. Reg. 230/08: SPECIES AT RISK IN ONTARIO LIST, Endangered Species Act, 2007, S.O. 2007, c. 6
Endangered Species Act, 2007
species at risk in ontario list
Historical version for the period August 1, 2018 to January 25, 2022.
Last amendment: 404/18.
Legislative History: 56/09, 332/09, 72/10, 373/10, 224/11, 4/12, 25/13, 139/14, 66/15, 200/16, 167/17, 404/18.
This is the English version of a bilingual regulation.
Extirpated species
1. The species listed in Columns 3 and 4 of Schedule 1 according to their common and scientific names, and belonging to the species grouping referred to in Column 2 opposite the listed species, are classified by COSSARO as extirpated species. O. Reg. 139/14, s. 1.
Endangered species
2. The species listed in Columns 3 and 4 of Schedule 2 according to their common and scientific names, and belonging to the species grouping referred to in Column 2 opposite the listed species, are classified by COSSARO as endangered species. O. Reg. 139/14, s. 1.
Threatened species
3. The species listed in Columns 3 and 4 of Schedule 3 according to their common and scientific names, and belonging to the species grouping referred to in Column 2 opposite the listed species, are classified by COSSARO as threatened species. O. Reg. 139/14, s. 1.
Special concern species
4. The species listed in Columns 3 and 4 of Schedule 4 according to their common and scientific names, and belonging to the species grouping referred to in Column 2 opposite the listed species, are classified by COSSARO as special concern species. O. Reg. 139/14, s. 1.
Geographical limitations
5. If the classification of a species applies only to a specified geographic area in Ontario, the area is described in a footnote to the relevant Schedule. O. Reg. 230/08, s. 5.
6. Omitted (provides for coming into force of provisions of this Regulation). O. Reg. 230/08, s. 6.
Schedule 1
Extirpated species
|
Column 1 |
Column 2 |
Column 3 |
Column 4 |
|
1. |
Mosses |
Incurved Grizzled Moss |
Ptychomitrium incurvum |
|
2. |
Vascular Plants |
Illinois Tick-trefoil |
Desmodium illinoense |
|
3. |
Vascular Plants |
Spring Blue-eyed Mary |
Collinsia verna |
|
4. |
Insects |
American Burying Beetle |
Nicrophorus americanus |
|
5. |
Insects |
Eastern Persius Duskywing |
Erynnis persius persius |
|
6. |
Insects |
Frosted Elfin |
Callophrys irus |
|
7. |
Insects |
Karner Blue |
Lycaeides melissa samuelis |
|
8. |
Fishes |
Gravel Chub |
Erimystax x-punctatus |
|
9. |
Fishes |
Paddlefish |
Polyodon spathula |
|
10. |
Amphibians |
Blanchard’s Cricket Frog |
Acris blanchardi |
|
11. |
Amphibians |
Eastern Tiger Salamander |
Ambystoma tigrinum |
|
12. |
Amphibians |
Spring Salamander |
Gyrinophilus porphyriticus |
|
13. |
Reptiles |
Eastern Box Turtle |
Terrapene carolina |
|
14. |
Reptiles |
Timber Rattlesnake |
Crotalus horridus |
|
15. |
Birds |
Eskimo Curlew |
Numenius borealis |
|
16. |
Birds |
Greater Prairie-Chicken |
Tympanuchus cupido |
O. Reg. 200/16, s. 1.
SCHEDULE 2
Endangered species
|
Column 1 |
Column 2 |
Column 3 |
Column 4 |
|
0.1 |
Lichens |
Golden-eye Lichen (Great Lakes population) |
Teloschistes chrysophthalmus |
|
1. |
Lichens |
Pale-bellied Frost Lichen |
Physconia subpallida |
|
2. |
Mosses |
Spoon-leaved Moss |
Bryoandersonia illecebra |
|
3. |
Vascular Plants |
American Chestnut |
Castanea dentata |
|
4. |
Vascular Plants |
American Columbo |
Frasera caroliniensis |
|
5. |
Vascular Plants |
American Ginseng |
Panax quinquefolius |
|
6. |
Vascular Plants |
Bent Spike-rush |
Eleocharis geniculata |
|
7. |
Vascular Plants |
Bird’s-foot Violet |
Viola pedata |
|
8. |
Vascular Plants |
Bluehearts |
Buchnera americana |
|
9. |
Vascular Plants |
Blunt-lobed Woodsia |
Woodsia obtusa |
|
10. |
Vascular Plants |
Butternut |
Juglans cinerea |
|
11. |
Vascular Plants |
Cherry Birch |
Betula lenta |
|
12. |
Vascular Plants |
Colicroot |
Aletris farinosa |
|
13. |
Vascular Plants |
Cucumber Tree |
Magnolia acuminata |
|
14. |
Vascular Plants |
Drooping Trillium |
Trillium flexipes |
|
15. |
Vascular Plants |
Eastern Flowering Dogwood |
Cornus florida |
|
16. |
Vascular Plants |
Eastern Prairie Fringed-orchid |
Platanthera leucophaea |
|
17. |
Vascular Plants |
Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus |
Opuntia humifusa |
|
18. |
Vascular Plants |
Engelmann’s Quillwort |
Isoetes engelmannii |
|
19. |
Vascular Plants |
False Hop Sedge |
Carex lupuliformis |
|
20. |
Vascular Plants |
Few-flowered Club-rush |
Trichophorum planifolium |
|
21. |
Vascular Plants |
Forked Three-awned Grass |
Aristida basiramea |
|
22. |
Vascular Plants |
Four-leaved Milkweed |
Asclepias quadrifolia |
|
23. |
Vascular Plants |
Gattinger’s Agalinis |
Agalinis gattingeri |
|
24. |
Vascular Plants |
Heart-leaved Plantain |
Plantago cordata |
|
25. |
Vascular Plants |
Hoary Mountain-mint |
Pycnanthemum incanum |
|
26. |
Vascular Plants |
Horsetail Spike-rush |
Eleocharis equisetoides |
|
27. |
Vascular Plants |
Juniper Sedge |
Carex juniperorum |
|
28. |
Vascular Plants |
Large Whorled Pogonia |
Isotria verticillata |
|
29. |
Vascular Plants |
Lowland Toothcup |
Rotala ramosior |
|
30. |
Vascular Plants |
Nodding Pogonia |
Triphora trianthophoros |
|
31. |
Vascular Plants |
Ogden’s Pondweed |
Potamogeton ogdenii |
|
32. |
Vascular Plants |
Pink Milkwort |
Polygala incarnata |
|
33. |
Vascular Plants |
Red Mulberry |
Morus rubra |
|
34. |
Vascular Plants |
Scarlet Ammannia |
Ammannia robusta |
|
35. |
Vascular Plants |
Showy Goldenrod (Great Lakes Plains population) |
Solidago speciosa |
|
36. |
Vascular Plants |
Skinner’s Agalinis |
Agalinis skinneriana |
|
37. |
Vascular Plants |
Slender Bush-clover |
Lespedeza virginica |
|
38. |
Vascular Plants |
Small White Lady’s-slipper |
Cypripedium candidum |
|
39. |
Vascular Plants |
Small Whorled Pogonia |
Isotria medeoloides |
|
40. |
Revoked: O. Reg. 404/18, s. 1 (2). |
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|
41. |
Vascular Plants |
Virginia Goat’s-rue |
Tephrosia virginiana |
|
42. |
Vascular Plants |
Virginia Mallow |
Sida hermaphrodita |
|
43. |
Vascular Plants |
Western Silvery Aster |
Symphyotrichum sericeum |
|
44. |
Vascular Plants |
White Prairie Gentian |
Gentiana alba |
|
45. |
Vascular Plants |
Wood-poppy |
Stylophorum diphyllum |
|
46. |
Molluscs |
Broad-banded Forestsnail |
Allogona profunda |
|
47. |
Molluscs |
Eastern Banded Tigersnail |
Anguispira kochi kochi |
|
48. |
Molluscs |
Fawnsfoot |
Truncilla donaciformis |
|
49. |
Molluscs |
Hickorynut |
Obovaria olivaria |
|
50. |
Molluscs |
Kidneyshell |
Ptychobranchus fasciolaris |
|
51. |
Molluscs |
Northern Riffleshell |
Epioblasma torulosa rangiana |
|
52. |
Molluscs |
Proud Globelet |
Patera pennsylvanica |
|
53. |
Molluscs |
Rayed Bean |
Villosa fabalis |
|
54. |
Molluscs |
Round Hickorynut |
Obovaria subrotunda |
|
55. |
Molluscs |
Round Pigtoe |
Pleurobema sintoxia |
|
56. |
Molluscs |
Salamander Mussel |
Simpsonaias ambigua |
|
57. |
Molluscs |
Snuffbox |
Epioblasma triquetra |
|
58. |
Insects |
Aweme Borer Moth |
Papaipema aweme |
|
59. |
Insects |
Bogbean Buckmoth |
Hemileuca sp. |
|
60. |
Insects |
Gypsy Cuckoo Bumble Bee |
Bombus bohemicus |
|
61. |
Insects |
Hine’s Emerald |
Somatochlora hineana |
|
62. |
Insects |
Hoptree Borer |
Prays atomocella |
|
63. |
Insects |
Hungerford’s Crawling Water Beetle |
Brychius hungerfordi |
|
64. |
Insects |
Laura’s Clubtail |
Stylurus laurae |
|
65. |
Insects |
Mottled Duskywing |
Erynnis martialis |
|
66. |
Insects |
Nine-spotted Lady Beetle |
Coccinella novemnotata |
|
67. |
Insects |
Northern Barrens Tiger Beetle |
Cicindela patruela |
|
68. |
Insects |
Pygmy Snaketail |
Ophiogomphus howei |
|
69. |
Insects |
Rapids Clubtail |
Gomphus quadricolor |
|
70. |
Insects |
Riverine Clubtail |
Stylurus amnicola |
|
71. |
Insects |
Rusty-patched Bumble Bee |
Bombus affinis |
|
71.1 |
Insects |
Transverse Lady Beetle |
Coccinella transversoguttata |
|
72. |
Fishes |
American Eel |
Anguilla rostrata |
|
73. |
Fishes |
Eastern Sand Darter |
Ammocrypta pellucida |
|
73.1 |
Fishes |
Lake Sturgeon (Great Lakes - Upper St. Lawrence populations) |
Acipenser fulvescens |
|
74. |
Fishes |
Northern Madtom |
Noturus stigmosus |
|
75. |
Fishes |
Redside Dace |
Clinostomus elongatus |
|
76. |
Fishes |
River Darter (Great Lakes - Upper St. Lawrence populations) |
Percina shumardi |
|
77. |
Fishes |
Shortnose Cisco |
Coregonus reighardi |
|
78. |
Fishes |
Spotted Gar |
Lepisosteus oculatus |
|
79. |
Fishes |
Warmouth |
Lepomis gulosus |
|
80. |
Amphibians |
Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander |
Desmognathus ochrophaeus |
|
81. |
Amphibians |
Fowler’s Toad |
Anaxyrus fowleri |
|
82. |
Amphibians |
Jefferson Salamander |
Ambystoma jeffersonianum |
|
83. |
Amphibians |
Northern Dusky Salamander |
Desmognathus fuscus |
|
84. |
Amphibians |
Small-mouthed Salamander |
Ambystoma texanum |
|
85. |
Amphibians |
Unisexual Ambystoma (Jefferson Salamander dependent population) |
Ambystoma laterale – (2) jeffersonianum |
|
86. |
Amphibians |
Unisexual Ambystoma (Small-mouthed Salamander dependent population) |
Ambystoma laterale – texanum |
|
87. |
Reptiles |
Blue Racer |
Coluber constrictor foxii |
|
88. |
Reptiles |
Butler’s Gartersnake |
Thamnophis butleri |
|
89. |
Reptiles |
Common Five-lined Skink (Carolinian population) |
Plestiodon fasciatus |
|
90. |
Reptiles |
Eastern Foxsnake (Carolinian population) |
Pantherophis gloydi |
|
91. |
Reptiles |
Gray Ratsnake (Carolinian population) |
Pantherophis spiloides |
|
92. |
Reptiles |
Massasauga (Carolinian population) |
Sistrurus catenatus |
|
93. |
Reptiles |
Queensnake |
Regina septemvittata |
|
94. |
Reptiles |
Spiny Softshell |
Apalone spinifera |
|
95. |
Reptiles |
Spotted Turtle |
Clemmys guttata |
|
96. |
Reptiles |
Wood Turtle |
Glyptemys insculpta |
|
97. |
Birds |
Acadian Flycatcher |
Empidonax virescens |
|
98. |
Birds |
Barn Owl |
Tyto alba |
|
99. |
Birds |
Golden Eagle |
Aquila chrysaetos |
|
100. |
Birds |
Henslow’s Sparrow |
Ammodramus henslowii |
|
101. |
Birds |
King Rail |
Rallus elegans |
|
102. |
Birds |
Kirtland’s Warbler |
Setophaga kirtlandii |
|
103. |
Birds |
Loggerhead Shrike |
Lanius ludovicianus |
|
104. |
Birds |
Northern Bobwhite |
Colinus virginianus |
|
105. |
Birds |
Piping Plover |
Charadrius melodus |
|
106. |
Birds |
Prothonotary Warbler |
Protonotaria citrea |
|
107. |
Birds |
Red Knot rufa subspecies |
Calidris canutus rufa |
|
108. |
Birds |
Yellow-breasted Chat |
Icteria virens |
|
109. |
Mammals |
American Badger (Northwestern Ontario population) |
Taxidea taxus taxus |
|
110. |
Mammals |
American Badger (Southwestern Ontario population) |
Taxidea taxus jacksoni |
|
111. |
Mammals |
Eastern Small-footed Myotis |
Myotis leibii |
|
112. |
Mammals |
Little Brown Myotis |
Myotis lucifugus |
|
113. |
Mammals |
Mountain Lion or Cougar |
Puma concolor |
|
114. |
Mammals |
Northern Myotis |
Myotis septentrionalis |
|
115. |
Mammals |
Tri-colored Bat |
Perimyotis subflavus |
O. Reg. 167/17, s. 1; O. Reg. 404/18, s. 1.
SCHEDULE 3
threatened species
|
Column 1 |
Column 2 |
Column 3 |
Column 4 |
|
1. |
Vascular Plants |
American Water-willow |
Justicia americana |
|
2. |
Vascular Plants |
Blue Ash |
Fraxinus quadrangulata |
|
3. |
Vascular Plants |
Branched Bartonia |
Bartonia paniculata |
|
4. |
Vascular Plants |
Deerberry |
Vaccinium stamineum |
|
5. |
Vascular Plants |
Dense Blazing Star |
Liatris spicata |
|
6. |
Vascular Plants |
Dwarf Hackberry |
Celtis tenuifolia |
|
7. |
Vascular Plants |
False Rue-anemone |
Enemion biternatum |
|
8. |
Vascular Plants |
Goldenseal |
Hydrastis canadensis |
|
9. |
Vascular Plants |
Hill’s Thistle |
Cirsium hillii |
|
10. |
Vascular Plants |
Houghton’s Goldenrod |
Solidago houghtonii |
|
11. |
Vascular Plants |
Kentucky Coffee-tree |
Gymnocladus dioicus |
|
12. |
Vascular Plants |
Lakeside Daisy |
Tetraneuris herbacea |
|
13. |
Vascular Plants |
Pitcher’s Thistle |
Cirsium pitcheri |
|
14. |
Vascular Plants |
Purple Twayblade |
Liparis liliifolia |
|
15. |
Vascular Plants |
Round-leaved Greenbrier |
Smilax rotundifolia |
|
16. |
Vascular Plants |
Showy Goldenrod (Boreal population) |
Solidago speciosa |
|
17. |
Vascular Plants |
Small-flowered Lipocarpha |
Lipocarpha micrantha |
|
17.1 |
Vascular Plants |
Spotted Wintergreen |
Chimaphila maculata |
|
18. |
Vascular Plants |
White Wood Aster |
Eurybia divaricata |
|
19. |
Vascular Plants |
Wild Hyacinth |
Camassia scilloides |
|
20. |
Vascular Plants |
Willowleaf Aster |
Symphyotrichum praealtum |
|
21. |
Molluscs |
Lilliput |
Toxolasma parvum |
|
22. |
Revoked: O. Reg. 404/18, s. 2 (3). |
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|
23. |
Molluscs |
Threehorn Wartyback |
Obliquaria reflexa |
|
24. |
Molluscs |
Wavy-rayed Lampmussel |
Lampsilis fasciola |
|
25. |
Insects |
Lake Huron Grasshopper |
Trimerotropis huroniana |
|
26. |
Fishes |
Black Redhorse |
Moxostoma duquesnei |
|
27. |
Revoked: O. Reg. 404/18, s. 2 (5). |
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|
28. |
Fishes |
Cutlip Minnow |
Exoglossum maxillingua |
|
29. |
Fishes |
Lake Chubsucker |
Erimyzon sucetta |
|
30. |
Revoked: O. Reg. 404/18, s. 2 (5). |
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|
31. |
Fishes |
Lake Sturgeon (Saskatchewan - Nelson River populations) |
Acipenser fulvescens |
|
32. |
Fishes |
Pugnose Minnow |
Opsopoeodus emiliae |
|
33. |
Fishes |
Pugnose Shiner |
Notropis anogenus |
|
34. |
Fishes |
Shortjaw Cisco |
Coregonus zenithicus |
|
35. |
Fishes |
Silver Chub |
Macrhybopsis storeriana |
|
36. |
Fishes |
Silver Shiner |
Notropis photogenis |
|
37. |
Reptiles |
Blanding’s Turtle |
Emydoidea blandingii |
|
38. |
Reptiles |
Eastern Foxsnake (Georgian Bay population) |
Pantherophis gloydi |
|
39. |
Reptiles |
Eastern Hog-nosed Snake |
Heterodon platirhinos |
|
40. |
Reptiles |
Gray Ratsnake (Frontenac Axis population) |
Pantherophis spiloides |
|
41. |
Reptiles |
Massasauga (Great Lakes - St. Lawrence population) |
Sistrurus catenatus |
|
42. |
Birds |
American White Pelican |
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos |
|
43. |
Birds |
Bank Swallow |
Riparia riparia |
|
44. |
Birds |
Barn Swallow |
Hirundo rustica |
|
45. |
Birds |
Bobolink |
Dolichonyx oryzivorus |
|
46. |
Birds |
Cerulean Warbler |
Setophaga cerulea |
|
47. |
Birds |
Chimney Swift |
Chaetura pelagica |
|
48. |
Birds |
Eastern Meadowlark |
Sturnella magna |
|
49. |
Birds |
Eastern Whip-poor-will |
Antrostomus vociferus |
|
50. |
Birds |
Least Bittern |
Ixobrychus exilis |
|
51. |
Birds |
Louisiana Waterthrush |
Parkesia motacilla |
|
52. |
Mammals |
Algonquin Wolf |
Canis sp. |
|
53. |
Mammals |
Caribou (Boreal population) |
Rangifer tarandus |
|
54. |
Mammals |
Gray Fox |
Urocyon cinereoargenteus |
|
55. |
Mammals |
Polar Bear |
Ursus maritimus |
|
56. |
Mammals |
Wolverine |
Gulo gulo |
O. Reg. 167/17, s. 1; O. Reg. 404/18, s. 2.
SCHEDULE 4
special concern species
|
Column 1 |
Column 2 |
Column 3 |
Column 4 |
|
0.1 |
Vascular Plants |
American Hart’s Tongue Fern |
Asplenium scolopendrium var. americanum |
|
1. |
Vascular Plants |
Broad Beech Fern |
Phegopteris hexagonoptera |
|
2. |
Vascular Plants |
Climbing Prairie Rose |
Rosa setigera |
|
3. |
Vascular Plants |
Common Hoptree |
Ptelea trifoliata |
|
4. |
Vascular Plants |
Crooked-stem Aster |
Symphyotrichum prenanthoides |
|
5. |
Vascular Plants |
Dwarf Lake Iris |
Iris lacustris |
|
6. |
Vascular Plants |
Green Dragon |
Arisaema dracontium |
|
7. |
Revoked: O. Reg. 404/18, s. 3 (2). |
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|
8. |
Vascular Plants |
Hill’s Pondweed |
Potamogeton hillii |
|
9. |
Vascular Plants |
Riddell’s Goldenrod |
Solidago riddellii |
|
10. |
Vascular Plants |
Shumard Oak |
Quercus shumardii |
|
11. |
Vascular Plants |
Swamp Rose-mallow |
Hibiscus moscheutos |
|
12. |
Vascular Plants |
Tuberous Indian-plantain |
Arnoglossum plantagineum |
|
12.1 |
Molluscs |
Eastern Pondmussel |
Ligumia nasuta |
|
12.2 |
Molluscs |
Mapleleaf |
Quadrula quadrula |
|
13. |
Molluscs |
Rainbow |
Villosa iris |
|
14. |
Insects |
Monarch |
Danaus plexippus |
|
15. |
Insects |
West Virginia White |
Pieris virginiensis |
|
16. |
Insects |
Yellow-banded Bumble Bee |
Bombus terricola |
|
17. |
Fishes |
Blackstripe Topminnow |
Fundulus notatus |
|
18. |
Fishes |
Bridle Shiner |
Notropis bifrenatus |
|
18.1 |
Fishes |
Channel Darter |
Percina copelandi |
|
19. |
Fishes |
Grass Pickerel |
Esox americanus vermiculatus |
|
20. |
Fishes |
Lake Sturgeon (Southern Hudson Bay - James Bay populations) |
Acipenser fulvescens |
|
21. |
Fishes |
Northern Brook Lamprey |
Ichthyomyzon fossor |
|
22. |
Fishes |
Northern Sunfish (Great Lakes - Upper St. Lawrence populations) |
Lepomis peltastes |
|
23. |
Fishes |
River Redhorse |
Moxostoma carinatum |
|
24. |
Fishes |
Silver Lamprey (Great Lakes - Upper St. Lawrence River population) |
Ichthyomyzon unicuspis |
|
25. |
Fishes |
Spotted Sucker |
Minytrema melanops |
|
26. |
Fishes |
Upper Great Lakes Kiyi |
Coregonus kiyi kiyi |
|
27. |
Reptiles |
Common Five-lined Skink (Southern Shield population) |
Plestiodon fasciatus |
|
28. |
Reptiles |
Eastern Musk Turtle |
Sternotherus odoratus |
|
29. |
Reptiles |
Eastern Ribbonsnake |
Thamnophis sauritus |
|
30. |
Reptiles |
Lake Erie Watersnake |
Nerodia sipedon insularum |
|
31. |
Reptiles |
Northern Map Turtle |
Graptemys geographica |
|
32. |
Reptiles |
Snapping Turtle |
Chelydra serpentina |
|
33. |
Birds |
Bald Eagle |
Haliaeetus leucocephalus |
|
34. |
Birds |
Black Tern |
Chlidonias niger |
|
35. |
Birds |
Canada Warbler |
Cardellina canadensis |
|
36. |
Birds |
Common Nighthawk |
Chordeiles minor |
|
37. |
Birds |
Eastern Wood-Pewee |
Contopus virens |
|
37.1 |
Birds |
Evening Grosbeak |
Coccothraustes vespertinus |
|
38. |
Birds |
Golden-winged Warbler |
Vermivora chrysoptera |
|
39. |
Birds |
Grasshopper Sparrow |
Ammodramus savannarum |
|
40. |
Birds |
Horned Grebe |
Podiceps auritus |
|
41. |
Birds |
Olive-sided Flycatcher |
Contopus cooperi |
|
42. |
Birds |
Peregrine Falcon |
Falco peregrinus |
|
43. |
Birds |
Red-headed Woodpecker |
Melanerpes erythrocephalus |
|
44. |
Birds |
Red-necked Phalarope |
Phalaropus lobatus |
|
44.1 |
Birds |
Rusty Blackbird |
Euphagus carolinus |
|
45. |
Birds |
Short-eared Owl |
Asio flammeus |
|
46. |
Birds |
Wood Thrush |
Hylocichla mustelina |
|
47. |
Birds |
Yellow Rail |
Coturnicops noveboracensis |
|
48. |
Mammals |
Beluga |
Delphinapterus leucas |
|
48.1 |
Mammals |
Caribou (Eastern Migratory population) |
Rangifer tarandus |
|
49. |
Mammals |
Eastern Mole |
Scalopus aquaticus |
|
50. |
Mammals |
Woodland Vole |
Microtus pinetorum |
O. Reg. 167/17, s. 1; O. Reg. q, s. 3.