July, 1996 



DRAFT 



Montana Natural Heritage Program 

 Draft List of Wetland-related Animal Species of Special Concern 



Name 



G Rank S Rank 



Watershed 

 West East 



MTNHP 

 Tracking 



Fish 



Shorthead Sculpin 



Torrent Sculpin 



Spoonhead Sculpin 



White Sturgeon (kootenai River Pop.) 



Pallid Sturgeon 



Paddlefish 



Shortnose Gar 



Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout 



Westslope Cutthroat Trout 



Interior Redband Trout 



Bull Trout 



Montana Arctic Grayling 



Western Silvery Minnow 



Plains Minnow 



Northern Redbelly X Finescale Dace 



sturgeon Chub 



Sicklefin Chub 



Pearl Dace 



Flathead Chub 



Blue Sucker 



Trout-perch 



Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 W 

 W 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 W 

 Y 

 Y 



Amphibians 



Coeur d'Alene Salamander 

 Tailed Frog 

 Idaho Giant Salamander 

 Western Toad 

 Great Plains Toad 

 Canadian Toad 

 Northern Leopard Frog 

 Wood Frog 



Reptiles 



Spiny Softshell 

 Snapping Turtle 



G5 

 G5 



S3 

 S3 



Birds 



Common Loon 

 Clark's Grebe 

 American White Pelican 

 Great Blue Heron 

 Black-crowned Night-heron 

 White-faced Ibis 

 Trumpeter Swan 

 Harlequin Duck 

 Bald Eagle 

 Peregrine Falcon 

 Yellow Rai I 

 Whooping Crane 

 Piping Plover 

 Black-necked Sti It 

 Franklin's Gul I 

 Caspian Tern 

 Common Tern 

 Forster's Tern 

 Interior Least Tern 

 Black Tern 

 Eastern Screech-owl 

 Western Screech-owl 



Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 W 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 Y 

 W 

 W 



