O. Reg. 139/14: SPECIES AT RISK IN ONTARIO LIST, Filed June 27, 2014 under Endangered Species Act, 2007, S.O. 2007, c. 6
ontario regulation 139/14
made under the
Endangered Species Act, 2007
Made: June 17, 2014
Filed: June 27, 2014
Published on e-Laws: June 27, 2014
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: July 12, 2014
Amending O. Reg. 230/08
(SPECIES AT RISK IN ONTARIO LIST)
1. Sections 1 to 4 of Ontario Regulation 230/08 are revoked and the following substituted:
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.
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.
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.
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.
2. Schedules 1 to 4 of the Regulation are revoked and the following substituted:
Schedule 1
Extirpated species
Column 1 Item |
Column 2 Species Grouping |
Column 3 Common Name |
Column 4 Scientific Name |
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 |
Timber Rattlesnake |
Crotalus horridus |
14. |
Birds |
Eskimo Curlew |
Numenius borealis |
15. |
Birds |
Greater Prairie-Chicken |
Tympanuchus cupido |
Schedule 2
Endangered Species
Column 1 Item |
Column 2 Species Grouping |
Column 3 Common Name |
Column 4 Scientific Name |
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 |
Cucumber Tree |
Magnolia acuminata |
13. |
Vascular Plants |
Drooping Trillium |
Trillium flexipes |
14. |
Vascular Plants |
Eastern Flowering Dogwood |
Cornus florida |
15. |
Vascular Plants |
Eastern Prairie Fringed-orchid |
Platanthera leucophaea |
16. |
Vascular Plants |
Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus1 |
Opuntia humifusa |
17. |
Vascular Plants |
Engelmann’s Quillwort |
Isoetes engelmannii |
18. |
Vascular Plants |
False Hop Sedge |
Carex lupuliformis |
19. |
Vascular Plants |
Few-flowered Club-rush2 |
Trichophorum planifolium |
20. |
Vascular Plants |
Forked Three-awned Grass |
Aristida basiramea |
21. |
Vascular Plants |
Four-leaved Milkweed |
Asclepias quadrifolia |
22. |
Vascular Plants |
Gattinger’s Agalinis |
Agalinis gattingeri |
23. |
Vascular Plants |
Heart-leaved Plantain |
Plantago cordata |
24. |
Vascular Plants |
Hoary Mountain-mint |
Pycnanthemum incanum |
25. |
Vascular Plants |
Horsetail Spike-rush |
Eleocharis equisetoides |
26. |
Vascular Plants |
Juniper Sedge |
Carex juniperorum |
27. |
Vascular Plants |
Large Whorled Pogonia |
Isotria verticillata |
28. |
Vascular Plants |
Nodding Pogonia |
Triphora trianthophora |
29. |
Vascular Plants |
Ogden’s Pondweed |
Potamogeton ogdenii |
30. |
Vascular Plants |
Pink Milkwort |
Polygala incarnata |
31. |
Vascular Plants |
Red Mulberry |
Morus rubra |
32. |
Vascular Plants |
Scarlet Ammannia |
Ammannia robusta |
33. |
Vascular Plants |
Showy Goldenrod (Great Lakes Plains population) |
Solidago speciosa |
34. |
Vascular Plants |
Skinner’s Agalinis |
Agalinis skinneriana |
35. |
Vascular Plants |
Slender Bush-clover3 |
Lespedeza virginica |
36. |
Vascular Plants |
Small White Lady’s-slipper |
Cypripedium candidum |
37. |
Vascular Plants |
Small Whorled Pogonia |
Isotria medeoloides |
38. |
Vascular Plants |
Spotted Wintergreen |
Chimaphila maculata |
39. |
Vascular Plants |
Toothcup |
Rotala ramosior |
40. |
Vascular Plants |
Virginia Goat’s-rue |
Tephrosia virginiana |
41. |
Vascular Plants |
Virginia Mallow |
Sida hermaphrodita |
42. |
Vascular Plants |
Western Silvery Aster |
Symphyotrichum sericeum |
43. |
Vascular Plants |
White Prairie Gentian |
Gentiana alba |
44. |
Vascular Plants |
Wood-poppy |
Stylophorum diphyllum |
45. |
Molluscs |
Eastern Pondmussel |
Ligumia nasuta |
46. |
Molluscs |
Fawnsfoot |
Truncilla donaciformis |
47. |
Molluscs |
Hickorynut |
Obovaria olivaria |
48. |
Molluscs |
Kidneyshell |
Ptychobranchus fasciolaris |
49. |
Molluscs |
Northern Riffleshell |
Epioblasma torulosa rangiana |
50. |
Molluscs |
Rayed Bean |
Villosa fabalis |
51. |
Molluscs |
Round Hickorynut |
Obovaria subrotunda |
52. |
Molluscs |
Round Pigtoe |
Pleurobema sintoxia |
53. |
Molluscs |
Salamander Mussel |
Simpsonaias ambigua |
54. |
Molluscs |
Snuffbox |
Epioblasma triquetra |
55. |
Insects |
Aweme Borer Moth |
Papaipema aweme |
56. |
Insects |
Bogbean Buckmoth |
Hemileuca sp. |
57. |
Insects |
Hine’s Emerald |
Somatochlora hineana |
58. |
Insects |
Hungerford’s Crawling Water Beetle |
Brychius hungerfordi |
59. |
Insects |
Laura’s Clubtail |
Stylurus laurae |
60. |
Insects |
Mottled Duskywing |
Erynnis martialis |
61. |
Insects |
Northern Barrens Tiger Beetle |
Cicindela patruela |
62. |
Insects |
Pygmy Snaketail |
Ophiogomphus howei |
63. |
Insects |
Rapids Clubtail |
Gomphus quadricolor |
64. |
Insects |
Riverine Clubtail |
Stylurus amnicola |
65. |
Insects |
Rusty-patched Bumble Bee |
Bombus affinis |
66. |
Fishes |
American Eel |
Anguilla rostrata |
67. |
Fishes |
Eastern Sand Darter |
Ammocrypta pellucida |
68. |
Fishes |
Northern Madtom |
Noturus stigmosus |
69. |
Fishes |
Redside Dace |
Clinostomus elongatus |
70. |
Fishes |
Shortnose Cisco |
Coregonus reighardi |
71. |
Amphibians |
Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander |
Desmognathus ochrophaeus |
72. |
Amphibians |
Fowler’s Toad |
Anaxyrus fowleri |
73. |
Amphibians |
Jefferson Salamander |
Ambystoma jeffersonianum |
74. |
Amphibians |
Northern Dusky Salamander |
Desmognathus fuscus |
75. |
Amphibians |
Small-mouthed Salamander |
Ambystoma texanum |
76. |
Reptiles |
Blue Racer |
Coluber constrictor foxii |
77. |
Reptiles |
Butler’s Gartersnake |
Thamnophis butleri |
78. |
Reptiles |
Common Five-lined Skink (Carolinian population) |
Plestiodon fasciatus |
79. |
Reptiles |
Eastern Foxsnake (Carolinian population) |
Pantherophis gloydi |
80. |
Reptiles |
Gray Ratsnake (Carolinian population) |
Pantherophis spiloides |
81. |
Reptiles |
Lake Erie Watersnake |
Nerodia sipedon insularum |
82. |
Reptiles |
Massasauga (Carolinian population) |
Sistrurus catenatus |
83. |
Reptiles |
Queensnake |
Regina septemvittata |
84. |
Reptiles |
Spotted Turtle |
Clemmys guttata |
85. |
Reptiles |
Wood Turtle |
Glyptemys insculpta |
86. |
Birds |
Acadian Flycatcher |
Empidonax virescens |
87. |
Birds |
Barn Owl |
Tyto alba |
88. |
Birds |
Golden Eagle |
Aquila chrysaetos |
89. |
Birds |
Henslow’s Sparrow |
Ammodramus henslowii |
90. |
Birds |
King Rail |
Rallus elegans |
91. |
Birds |
Kirtland’s Warbler |
Setophaga kirtlandii |
92. |
Birds |
Loggerhead Shrike |
Lanius ludovicianus |
93. |
Birds |
Northern Bobwhite |
Colinus virginianus |
94. |
Birds |
Piping Plover |
Charadrius melodus |
95. |
Birds |
Prothonotary Warbler |
Protonotaria citrea |
96. |
Birds |
Red Knot rufa subspecies |
Calidris canutus rufa |
97. |
Birds |
Yellow-breasted Chat |
Icteria virens |
98. |
Mammals |
American Badger |
Taxidea taxus |
99. |
Mammals |
Eastern Small-footed Myotis |
Myotis leibii |
100. |
Mammals |
Little Brown Myotis |
Myotis lucifugus |
101. |
Mammals |
Mountain Lion or Cougar |
Puma concolor |
102. |
Mammals |
Northern Myotis |
Myotis septentrionalis |
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 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.
schedule 3
Threatened species
Column 1 Item |
Column 2 Species Grouping |
Column 3 Common Name |
Column 4 Scientific Name |
1. |
Lichens |
Flooded Jellyskin |
Leptogium rivulare |
2. |
Vascular Plants |
American Water-willow |
Justicia americana |
3. |
Vascular Plants |
Branched Bartonia |
Bartonia paniculata |
4. |
Vascular Plants |
Colicroot |
Aletris farinosa |
5. |
Vascular Plants |
Common Hoptree |
Ptelea trifoliata |
6. |
Vascular Plants |
Deerberry |
Vaccinium stamineum |
7. |
Vascular Plants |
Dense Blazing Star |
Liatris spicata |
8. |
Vascular Plants |
Dwarf Hackberry |
Celtis tenuifolia |
9. |
Vascular Plants |
False Rue-anemone |
Enemion biternatum |
10. |
Vascular Plants |
Goldenseal |
Hydrastis canadensis |
11. |
Vascular Plants |
Hill’s Thistle |
Cirsium hillii |
12. |
Vascular Plants |
Houghton’s Goldenrod |
Solidago houghtonii |
13. |
Vascular Plants |
Kentucky Coffee-tree |
Gymnocladus dioicus |
14. |
Vascular Plants |
Lakeside Daisy |
Tetraneuris herbacea |
15. |
Vascular Plants |
Pitcher’s Thistle |
Cirsium pitcheri |
16. |
Vascular Plants |
Purple Twayblade |
Liparis liliifolia |
17. |
Vascular Plants |
Round-leaved Greenbrier |
Smilax rotundifolia |
18. |
Vascular Plants |
Showy Goldenrod (Boreal population) |
Solidago speciosa |
19. |
Vascular Plants |
Small-flowered Lipocarpha |
Lipocarpha micrantha |
20. |
Vascular Plants |
White Wood Aster |
Eurybia divaricata |
21. |
Vascular Plants |
Wild Hyacinth |
Camassia scilloides |
22. |
Vascular Plants |
Willowleaf Aster |
Symphyotrichum praealtum |
23. |
Molluscs |
Lilliput |
Taxolasma parvum |
24. |
Molluscs |
Mapleleaf Mussel |
Quadrula quadrula |
25. |
Molluscs |
Rainbow Mussel |
Villosa iris |
26. |
Molluscs |
Threehorn Wartyback |
Obliquaria reflexa |
27. |
Molluscs |
Wavy-rayed Lampmussel |
Lampsilis fasciola |
28. |
Fishes |
Black Redhorse |
Moxostoma duquesnei |
29. |
Fishes |
Channel Darter |
Percina copelandi |
30. |
Fishes |
Cutlip Minnow |
Exoglossum maxillingua |
31. |
Fishes |
Lake Chubsucker |
Erimyzon sucetta |
32. |
Fishes |
Lake Sturgeon (Great Lakes-Upper St. Lawrence River population) |
Acipenser fulvescens |
33. |
Fishes |
Lake Sturgeon (Northwestern Ontario population) |
Acipenser fulvescens |
34. |
Fishes |
Pugnose Minnow |
Opsopoeodus emiliae |
35. |
Fishes |
Pugnose Shiner |
Notropis anogenus |
36. |
Fishes |
Shortjaw Cisco |
Coregonus zenithicus |
37. |
Fishes |
Silver Chub |
Macrhybopsis storeriana |
38. |
Fishes |
Silver Shiner |
Notropis photogenis |
39. |
Fishes |
Spotted Gar |
Lepisosteus oculatus |
40. |
Reptiles |
Blanding’s Turtle |
Emydoidea blandingii |
41. |
Reptiles |
Eastern Foxsnake (Georgian Bay population) |
Pantherophis gloydi |
42. |
Reptiles |
Eastern Hog-nosed Snake |
Heterodon platirhinos |
43. |
Reptiles |
Gray Ratsnake (Frontenac Axis population) |
Pantherophis spiloides |
44. |
Reptiles |
Massasauga (Great Lakes - St. Lawrence population) |
Sistrurus catenatus |
45. |
Reptiles |
Spiny Softshell |
Apalone spinifera |
46. |
Birds |
American White Pelican |
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos |
47. |
Birds |
Bank Swallow |
Riparia riparia |
48. |
Birds |
Barn Swallow |
Hirundo rustica |
49. |
Birds |
Bobolink |
Dolichonyx oryzivorus |
50. |
Birds |
Cerulean Warbler |
Setophaga cerulea |
51. |
Birds |
Chimney Swift |
Chaetura pelagica |
52. |
Birds |
Eastern Meadowlark |
Sturnella magna |
53. |
Birds |
Eastern Whip-poor-will |
Antrostomus vociferus |
54. |
Birds |
Least Bittern |
Ixobrychus exilis |
55. |
Mammals |
Grey Fox |
Urocyon cinereoargenteus |
56. |
Mammals |
Polar Bear |
Ursus maritimus |
57. |
Mammals |
Wolverine |
Gulo gulo |
58. |
Mammals |
Woodland Caribou (Forest-dwelling boreal population) |
Rangifer tarandus caribou |
schedule 4
special concern species
Column 1 Item |
Column 2 Species Grouping |
Column 3 Common Name |
Column 4 Scientific Name |
1. |
Mosses |
Pygmy Pocket Moss |
Fissidens exilis |
2. |
Vascular Plants |
Blue Ash |
Fraxinus quadrangulata |
3. |
Vascular Plants |
Broad Beech Fern |
Phegopteris hexagonoptera |
4. |
Vascular Plants |
Climbing Prairie Rose |
Rosa setigera |
5. |
Vascular Plants |
Crooked-stem Aster |
Symphyotrichum prenanthoides |
6. |
Vascular Plants |
Dwarf Lake Iris |
Iris lacustris |
7. |
Vascular Plants |
Green Dragon |
Arisaema dracontium |
8. |
Vascular Plants |
Hart’s-tongue Fern |
Asplenium scolopendrium |
9. |
Vascular Plants |
Hill’s Pondweed |
Potamogeton hillii |
10. |
Vascular Plants |
Riddell’s Goldenrod |
Solidago riddellii |
11. |
Vascular Plants |
Shumard Oak |
Quercus shumardii |
12. |
Vascular Plants |
Swamp Rose-mallow |
Hibiscus moscheutos |
13. |
Vascular Plants |
Tuberous Indian-plantain |
Arnoglossum plantagineum |
14. |
Insects |
Monarch |
Danaus plexippus |
15. |
Insects |
West Virginia White |
Pieris virginiensis |
16. |
Fishes |
Blackstripe Topminnow |
Fundulus notatus |
17. |
Fishes |
Bridle Shiner |
Notropis bifrenatus |
18. |
Fishes |
Grass Pickerel |
Esox americanus vermiculatus |
19. |
Fishes |
Lake Sturgeon (Southern Hudson Bay-James Bay population) |
Acipenser fulvescens |
20. |
Fishes |
Northern Brook Lamprey |
Ichthyomyzon fossor |
21. |
Fishes |
River Redhorse |
Moxostoma carinatum |
22. |
Fishes |
Silver Lamprey (Great Lakes - Upper St. Lawrence River population) |
Ichthyomyzon unicuspis |
23. |
Fishes |
Spotted Sucker |
Minytrema melanops |
24. |
Fishes |
Upper Great Lakes Kiyi |
Coregonus kiyi kiyi |
25. |
Fishes |
Warmouth |
Lepomis gulosus |
26. |
Reptiles |
Common Five-lined Skink (Southern Shield population) |
Plestiodon fasciatus |
27. |
Reptiles |
Eastern Musk Turtle |
Sternotherus odoratus |
28. |
Reptiles |
Eastern Ribbonsnake |
Thamnophis sauritus |
29. |
Reptiles |
Milksnake |
Lampropeltis triangulum |
30. |
Reptiles |
Northern Map Turtle |
Graptemys geographica |
31. |
Reptiles |
Snapping Turtle |
Chelydra serpentina |
32. |
Birds |
Bald Eagle |
Haliaeetus leucocephalus |
33. |
Birds |
Black Tern |
Chlidonias niger |
34. |
Birds |
Canada Warbler |
Cardellina canadensis |
35. |
Birds |
Common Nighthawk |
Chordeiles minor |
36. |
Birds |
Eastern Wood-Pewee |
Contopus virens |
37. |
Birds |
Golden-winged Warbler |
Vermivora chrysoptera |
38. |
Birds |
Horned Grebe |
Podiceps auritus |
39. |
Birds |
Louisiana Waterthrush |
Parkesia motacilla |
40. |
Birds |
Olive-sided Flycatcher |
Contopus cooperi |
41. |
Birds |
Peregrine Falcon |
Falco peregrinus |
42. |
Birds |
Red-headed Woodpecker |
Melanerpes erythrocephalus |
43. |
Birds |
Short-eared Owl |
Asio flammeus |
44. |
Birds |
Wood Thrush |
Hylocichla mustelina |
45. |
Birds |
Yellow Rail |
Coturnicops noveboracensis |
46. |
Mammals |
Beluga |
Delphinapterus leucas |
47. |
Mammals |
Eastern Mole |
Scalopus aquaticus |
48. |
Mammals |
Eastern Wolf |
Canis lupus lycaon |
49. |
Mammals |
Woodland Vole |
Microtus pinetorum |
Commencement
3. This Regulation comes into force on the day it is filed.
Made by:
Pris par :
La sous-ministre des Richesses naturelles,
Tracey Mill
Deputy Minister of Natural Resources
Date made: June 17, 2014.
Pris le : 17 juin 2014.