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Table 4. 12. (continued) 



Species 



Status 



Wildlife (vertebrates) 



Fish 



Lampetra appendix (American brook lamprey) 

 Acipenser brevirostrum (shortnose sturgeon) 3 



Amphibians 



Hemidactylium scutatum (four-toed salamander) 



Scaphiopus holbrooku (eastern spadefoot toad) 

 Reptiles 



Clemmys guttata (spotted turtle) 



Malaclemys terrapin (diamondback terrapin) 



Terrapene Carolina (common box turtle) 



Pseudemys rubiventns bangsi (Plymouth red-bellied turtle) 3 



Caretta caretta (loggerhead sea turtle) 3 



Lepidochelys kempii (Kemp's ridley sea turtle) 3 



Dermochelys conacea (leatherback sea turtle) 3 

 Birds 



Podilymbus podiceps (pied-billed grebe) 



Botaurus lentiginosus (American bittern) 



Ixobrychus exilis (least bittern) 



Accipiter striatus (sharp-shinned hawk) 



Circus cyaneus (northern harrier) 



Haliaeetus leucocephalus (bald eagle) 3 



Gallinula chloropus (common moorhen) 



Rallus elegans (king rail) 



Charadnus melodus (piping plover) 3 



Bartramia longicauda (upland sandpiper) 



Sterna antillarum (least tern) 



Sterna dougallii (roseate tern) 3 



Sterna hirundo (common tern) 



Sterna paradisaea (Arctic tern) 



Tyto alba (common barn-owl) 



Asio flammeus (short-eared owl) 



Ammodramus savannarum (grasshopper sparrow) 



Parula amencana (northern parula warbler) 



Pandion haliaetus (osprey) 

 Mammals 



Halichoerus grypus (gray seal) 

 Wildlife (invertebrates) 

 Bivalvia (mussels and clams) 



Leptodea ochracea (tidewater mucket) 



Ligumia nasuta (eastern pond mussel) 

 Hirudinea (leeches) 



Macrobdella sestertia (New England medicinal leech) 

 Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) 



Aeshna mutata (spring blue darner dragonfly) 



Anax longipes (long-legged green darner dragonfly) 



Enallagma carunculatum (bluet damselfly) 



Enallagma laterale (lateral bluet damselfly) 



Enallagma recurvatum (barrens bluet damselfly) 



Threatened 

 Endangered 



Special concern 

 Threatened 



Special concern 



Threatened 



Special concern 



Endangered 



Threatened 



Endangered 



Endangered 



Threatened 

 Special concern 

 Threatened 

 Special concern 

 Threatened 

 Endangered 

 Special concern 

 Threatened 

 Threatened 

 Endangered 

 Special concern 

 Endangered 

 Special concern 

 Special concern 

 Special concern 

 Endangered 

 Special concern 

 Threatened 

 Special concern 



Special concern 



Special concern 

 Special concern 



Special concern 



Endangered 

 Special concern 

 Special concern 

 Special concern 

 Threatened 



