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Endangered Species Act, 2007

ONTARIO REGULATION 230/08

SPECIES AT RISK IN ONTARIO LIST

Historical version for the period February 18, 2009 to September 9, 2009.

Last amendment: O. Reg. 56/09.

This is the English version of a bilingual regulation.

Extirpated species

1. The species listed in Schedule 1 are classified by COSSARO as extirpated species. O. Reg. 230/08, s. 1.

Endangered species

2. The species listed in Schedule 2 are classified by COSSARO as endangered species. O. Reg. 230/08, s. 2.

Threatened species

3. The species listed in Schedule 3 are classified by COSSARO as threatened species. O. Reg. 230/08, s. 3.

Special concern species

4. The species listed in Schedule 4 are classified by COSSARO as special concern species. O. Reg. 230/08, s. 4.

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

Item

Common Name

Scientific Name

Mosses

1.

Incurved Grizzled Moss

Ptychomitrium incurvum

Vascular Plants

2.

Illinois Tick-trefoil

Desmodium illinoense

3.

Spring Blue-eyed Mary

Collinsia verna

Insects

4.

Eastern Persius Duskywing

Erynnis persius persius

5.

Karner Blue

Lycaeides melissa samuelis

Fishes

6.

Atlantic Salmon (Great Lakes population)

Salmo salar

7.

Gravel Chub

Erimystax x-punctatus

8.

Paddlefish

Polyodon spathula

Amphibians

9.

Spring Salamander

Gyrinophilus porphyriticus

10.

Tiger Salamander

Ambystoma tigrinum

Reptiles

11.

Timber Rattlesnake

Crotalus horridus

Birds

12.

Greater Prairie-Chicken

Tympanuchus cupido

O. Reg. 56/09, s. 1.

SCHEDULE 2
ENDANGERED SPECIES

Item

Common Name

Scientific Name

Mosses

1.

Spoon-leaved Moss

Bryoandersonia illecebra

Vascular Plants

2.

American Chestnut

Castanea dentata

3.

American Columbo

Frasera caroliniensis

4.

American Ginseng

Panax quinquefolius

5.

Bird’s-foot Violet

Viola pedata

6.

Bluehearts

Buchnera americana

7.

Blunt-lobed Woodsia

Woodsia obtusa

8.

Butternut

Juglans cinerea

9.

Cherry Birch

Betula lenta

10.

Cucumber Tree

Magnolia acuminata

11.

Drooping Trillium

Trillium flexipes

12.

Eastern Flowering Dogwood

Cornus florida

13.

Eastern Prairie Fringed-orchid

Platanthera leucophaea

14.

Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus1

Opuntia humifusa

15.

Engelmann’s Quillwort

Isoetes engelmannii

16.

False Hop Sedge

Carex lupuliformis

17.

Few-flowered Club-rush or Bashful Bulrush2

Trichophorum planifolium

18.

Forked Three-awned Grass

Aristida basiramea

19.

Gattinger’s Agalinis

Agalinis gattingeri

20.

Heart-leaved Plantain

Plantago cordata

21.

Hoary Mountain-mint

Pycnanthemum incanum

22.

Horsetail Spike-rush

Eleocharis equisetoides

23.

Juniper Sedge

Carex juniperorum

24.

Large Whorled Pogonia

Isotria verticillata

25.

Nodding Pogonia

Triphora trianthophora

26.

Ogden’s Pondweed

Potamogeton ogdenii

27.

Pink Milkwort

Polygala incarnata

28.

Pitcher’s Thistle

Cirsium pitcheri

29.

Purple Twayblade

Liparis liliifolia

30.

Red Mulberry

Morus rubra

31.

Scarlet Ammannia

Ammannia robusta

32.

Showy Goldenrod

Solidago speciosa

33.

Skinner’s Agalinis

Agalinis skinneriana

34.

Slender Bush-clover3

Lespedeza virginica

35.

Small White Lady’s-slipper

Cypripedium candidum

36.

Small Whorled Pogonia

Isotria medeoloides

37.

Spotted Wintergreen

Chimaphila maculata

38.

Toothcup

Rotala ramosior

39.

Virginia Goat’s-rue

Tephrosia virginiana

40.

Western Silvery Aster

Symphyotrichum sericeum

41.

White Prairie Gentian

Gentiana alba

42.

Wood-poppy

Stylophorum diphyllum

Molluscs

43.

Eastern Pondmussel

Ligumia nasuta

44.

Kidneyshell

Ptychobranchus fasciolaris

45.

Mudpuppy Mussel

Simpsonaias ambigua

46.

Northern Riffleshell

Epioblasma torulosa rangiana

47.

Rayed Bean

Villosa fabalis

48.

Round Hickorynut

Obovaria subrotunda

49.

Round Pigtoe

Pleurobema sintoxia

50.

Snuffbox

Epioblasma triquetra

51.

Wavy-rayed Lampmussel

Lampsilis fasciola

Insects

52.

Aweme Borer Moth

Papaipema aweme

53.

Frosted Elfin

Callophrys irus

Fishes

54.

American Eel

Anguilla rostrata

55.

Aurora Trout

Salvelinus fontinalis timagamiensis

56.

Northern Madtom

Noturus stigmosus

57.

Pugnose Shiner

Notropis anogenus

58.

Redside Dace

Clinostomus elongatus

59.

Shortnose Cisco

Coregonus reighardi

Amphibians

60.

Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander

Desmognathus ochrophaeus

61.

Northern Cricket Frog

Acris crepitans

62.

Northern Dusky Salamander

Desmognathus fuscus

63.

Small-mouthed Salamander

Ambystoma texanum

Reptiles

64.

Blue Racer

Coluber constrictor foxii

65.

Lake Erie Watersnake

Nerodia sipedon insularum

66.

Spotted Turtle

Clemmys guttata

67.

Wood Turtle

Glyptemys insculpta

Birds

68.

Acadian Flycatcher

Empidonax virescens

69.

Bald Eagle4

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

70.

Barn Owl

Tyto alba

71.

Eskimo Curlew

Numenius borealis

72.

Golden Eagle

Aquila chrysaetos

73.

Henslow’s Sparrow

Ammodramus henslowii

74.

King Rail

Rallus elegans

75.

Kirtland’s Warbler

Dendroica kirtlandii

76.

Loggerhead Shrike

Lanius ludovicianus

77.

Northern Bobwhite

Colinus virginianus

78.

Piping Plover

Charadrius melodus

79.

Prothonotary Warbler

Protonotaria citrea

80.

Red Knot rufa subspecies

Calidris canutus rufa

Mammals

81.

American Badger

Taxidea taxus

82.

Mountain Lion or Cougar

Puma concolor

Notes to Schedule 2:

1 The classification of Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus applies to Fish Point Provincial Nature Reserve on Pelee Island in the Township of Pelee.

2 The classification of Few-flowered Club-rush or Bashful Bulrush applies to Lot 32, ranges 2 and 3, in the City of Pickering (formerly the geographic Township of Pickering), and to the Royal Botanical Gardens in the City of Hamilton.

3 The classification of Slender Bush-clover applies to Tallgrass Prairie Heritage Park, Ojibway Park and Black Oak Heritage Park in the City of Windsor.

4 The classification of Bald Eagle applies to the part of Ontario south of the French and Mattawa Rivers.

O. Reg. 56/09, s. 1.

SCHEDULE 3
THREATENED SPECIES

Item

Common Name

Scientific Name

Lichens

1.

Flooded Jellyskin

Leptogium rivulare

Vascular Plants

2.

American Water-willow

Justicia americana

3.

Branched Bartonia

Bartonia paniculata

4.

Colicroot

Aletris farinosa

5.

Common Hoptree

Ptelea trifoliata

6.

Crooked-stem Aster

Symphyotrichum prenanthoides

7.

Deerberry

Vaccinium stamineum

8.

Dense Blazing Star

Liatris spicata

9.

Dwarf Hackberry

Celtis tenuifolia

10.

Dwarf Lake Iris

Iris lacustris

11.

False Rue-anemone

Enemion biternatum

12.

Goldenseal

Hydrastis canadensis

13.

Hill’s Thistle

Cirsium hillii

14.

Houghton’s Goldenrod

Solidago houghtonii

15.

Kentucky Coffee-tree

Gymnocladus dioicus

16.

Lakeside Daisy

Hymenoxys herbacea

17.

Round-leaved Greenbrier

Smilax rotundifolia

18.

Small-flowered Lipocarpha

Lipocarpha micrantha

19.

White Wood Aster

Eurybia divaricata

20.

Wild Hyacinth

Camassia scilloides

21.

Willowleaf Aster

Symphyotrichum praealtum

Molluscs

22.

Mapleleaf Mussel

Quadrula quadrula

23.

Rainbow Mussel

Villosa iris

Fishes

24.

Black Redhorse

Moxostoma duquesnei

25.

Channel Darter

Percina copelandi

26.

Cutlip Minnow

Exoglossum maxillingua

27.

Eastern Sand Darter

Ammocrypta pellucida

28.

Lake Chubsucker

Erimyzon sucetta

29.

Shortjaw Cisco

Coregonus zenithicus

30.

Spotted Gar

Lepisosteus oculatus

Amphibians

31.

Fowler’s Toad

Bufo fowleri

32.

Jefferson Salamander

Ambystoma jeffersonianum

Reptiles

33.

Blanding’s Turtle

Emydoidea blandingii

34.

Butler’s Gartersnake

Thamnophis butleri

35.

Eastern Foxsnake

Elaphe gloydi

36.

Eastern Hog-nosed Snake

Heterodon platirhinos

37.

Eastern Ratsnake

Elaphe obsoleta

38.

Massasauga

Sistrurus catenatus

39.

Queen Snake

Regina septemvittata

40.

Spiny Softshell

Apalone spinifera

41.

Stinkpot

Sternotherus odoratus

Birds

42.

American White Pelican

Pelecanus erythrorhynchos

43.

Hooded Warbler

Wilsonia citrina

44.

Least Bittern

Ixobrychus exilis

45.

Peregrine Falcon

Falco peregrinus

Mammals

46.

Grey Fox

Urocyon cinereoargenteus

47.

Wolverine

Gulo gulo

48.

Woodland Caribou (Forest-dwelling boreal population)

Rangifer tarandus caribou

O. Reg. 56/09, s. 1.

SCHEDULE 4
SPECIAL CONCERN SPECIES

Item

Common Name

Scientific Name

Mosses

1.

Pygmy Pocket Moss

Fissidens exilis

Vascular Plants

2.

American Hart’s-tongue Fern

Asplenium scolopendrium americanum

3.

Blue Ash

Fraxinus quadrangulata

4.

Broad Beech Fern

Phegopteris hexagonoptera

5.

Climbing Prairie Rose

Rosa setigera

6.

Green Dragon

Arisaema dracontium

7.

Hill’s Pondweed

Potamogeton hillii

8.

Riddell’s Goldenrod

Solidago riddellii

9.

Shumard Oak

Quercus shumardii

10.

Swamp Rose-mallow

Hibiscus moscheutos

11.

Tuberous Indian-plantain

Arnoglossum plantagineum

Insects

12.

Monarch

Danaus plexippus

13.

West Virginia White

Pieris virginiensis

Fishes

14.

Bigmouth Buffalo

Ictiobus cyprinellus

15.

Blackstripe Topminnow

Fundulus notatus

16.

Bridle Shiner

Notropis bifrenatus

17.

Grass Pickerel

Esox americanus vermiculatus

18.

Lake Sturgeon

Acipenser fulvescens

19.

Northern Brook Lamprey

Ichthyomyzon fossor

20.

Pugnose Minnow

Opsopoeodus emiliae

21.

River Redhorse

Moxostoma carinatum

22.

Silver Chub

Macrhybopsis storeriana

23.

Silver Shiner

Notropis photogenis

24.

Spotted Sucker

Minytrema melanops

25.

Upper Great Lakes Kiyi

Coregonus kiyi kiyi

26.

Warmouth

Lepomis gulosus

Reptiles

27.

Eastern Ribbonsnake

Thamnophis sauritus

28.

Five-lined Skink

Eumeces fasciatus

29.

Milksnake

Lampropeltis triangulum

30.

Northern Map Turtle

Graptemys geographica

Birds

31.

Bald Eagle1

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

32.

Black Tern

Chlidonias niger

33.

Cerulean Warbler

Dendroica cerulea

34.

Golden-winged Warbler

Vermivora chrysoptera

35.

Louisiana Waterthrush

Seiurus motacilla

36.

Red-headed Woodpecker

Melanerpes erythrocephalus

37.

Short-eared Owl

Asio flammeus

38.

Yellow Rail

Coturnicops noveboracensis

39.

Yellow-breasted Chat

Icteria virens

Mammals

40.

Beluga

Delphinapterus leucas

41.

Eastern Mole

Scalopus aquaticus

42.

Eastern Wolf

Canis lupus lycaon

43.

Polar Bear

Ursus maritimus

44.

Woodland Vole

Microtus pinetorum

Note to Schedule 4:

1 The classification of Bald Eagle applies to the part of Ontario north of the French and Mattawa Rivers.

O. Reg. 56/09, s. 1.