Threatened and Endangered Species of
M A S S A C H U S E T T S
Puritan Tiger Beetle Cicindela puritana
Atlantic Sturgeon Acipenser oxyrinchus
Bog Turtle Glyptemys muhlenbergii
Sweetbay Magnolia Magnolia virginiana
Slender Walker Pomatiopsis lapidaria
Marbled Salamander Ambystoma opacum
Golden Seal Hydrastis canadensis
Piping Plover Charadrius melodus
Chinkapin Oak Quercus muehlenbergii
American Burying Beetle Nicrophorus americanus
Phyllira Tiger Moth Grammia phyllira
Sperm Whale Physeter macrocephalus
Prickly Pear Opuntia humifusa
Fragile Rock-brake Cr yptogramma stelleri
Timber Rattlesnake Crotalus horridus
Ebony Boghaunter Williamsonia fletcheri
Braun’s Holly-fern Polystichum braunii
Ginseng Pa n a x q u i n q u e f o l i u s
Kemp’s Ridley Seaturtle Lepidochelys kempii
Taconic Cave Amphipod Stygobromus borealis
Swamp Birch Betula pumila
Boreal Turret Snail Va l v a t a s i n c e r a
Northern Redbelly Dace Phoxinus eos
Sedge Wren Cistothorus platensis
Red Mulberry Morus rubra
Threespine Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus
Dion Skipper Euphyes dion
Common Loon Gavia immer
Faded Grey Geometer Stenopor pia polygrammaria
Humpback Whale Megaptera novaeangliae
Eastern Spadefoot Scaphiopus holbrookii
Short-eared Owl Asio flammeus
Wapato Sagittaria cuneata
Upland Sandpiper Bartramia longicauda
Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Tidewater Mucket Leptodea ochracea
Massachusetts Ecoregions
Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus
American Brook Lamprey Lampetra appendix
Intricate Fairy Shrimp Eubranchipus intricatus
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Pied-billed Grebe Podilymbus podiceps
Lake Chub Couesius plumbeus
Harpoon Clubtail Gomphus descriptus
1. Taconic Mountains 2. Western New England Marble Valleys 3. Berkshire Plateau 4. Connecticut River Valley 5. Worcester Plateau 6. Boston Basin and Southern New England Coastal 7. Bristol / Narragansett Lowland 8. Cape Cod and Islands
Northern Long-eared Bat Myotis septentrionalis
Snowberry Symphoricar pos albus var. albus
Northern Right Whale Eubalaena glacialis
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