SPECIES LISTING
November 2001
 
     
EXTINCT - A SPECIES THAT NO LONGER EXISTS.
EXTIRPATED - A SPECIES THAT NO LONGER EXISTS IN THE WILD IN CANADA, BUT OCCURRING
  ELSEWHERE.
ENDANGERED - A SPECIES FACING IMMINENT EXTIRPATION OR EXTINCTION.
THREATENED - A SPECIES THAT IS LIKELY TO BECOME ENDANGERED IF LIMITING FACTORS
  ARE NOT REVERSED.
SPECIAL CONCERN - A SPECIES OF SPECIAL CONCERN BECAUSE OF CHARACTERISTICS THAT MAKE
  IT IS PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE TO HUMAN ACTIVITIES OR NATURAL EVENTS.
NOT AT RISK - A SPECIES THAT HAS BEEN EVALUATED AND FOUND NOT TO BE AT RISK.
DATA DEFICIENT - A SPECIES FOR WHICH THERE IS INSUFFICIENT SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION TO
  SUPPORT STATUS DESIGNATION.

 

 

EXTINCT

      Species Occurence   Extinction Date
MAMMALS Woodland Caribou (Dawson's subspecies)   British Columbia   in 1920's
  Sea Mink   Atlantic Coatal Waters   in 1894
BIRDS Great Auk   QC, NB, NS, NF   in 1844
  Labrador Duck   QC, NB, NS, NF   in 1875
  Passenger Pigeon   SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS, PE   in 1914
FISHES Deepwater Cisco   Ontario   in 1952
  Longjaw Cisco   Ontario   in 1975
  Banff Longnose Dace   Alberta   in 1986
  Benthic Hadley Lake Stickleback   British Columbia   in 1999
  Limnetic Hadley Lake Stickleback   British Columbia   in 1999
  Blue Walleye   Ontario   in 1965
MOLLUSCS Eelgrass Limpet   QC, NS, NF   in 1929

EXTIRPATED

      Species Occurence Extinction Date
MAMMALS Grizzly Bear   AB, SK, MB in 1880
  Black-footed Ferret   AB, SK, MB in 1974
  Atlantic Walrus   Atlantic ocean mid 19th century
  Grey Whale   Atlantic Ocean before end of 1800's
BIRDS Sage Grouse   British Columbia not observed since 1960's
  Greater Prairie-Chicken   AB, SK, MB, ON last reported in 1987 in Saskatchewan
REPTILES Pygmy Lizard (short-horned)   British Columbia last reported in 1898 in BC
  Timber Rattlesnake   Ontario in 1941
AMPHIBIANS Tiger Salamander   Ontario -----
FISHES Gravel Chub   Ontario last reported in 1958, Thames River drainage
  Paddlefish   Ontario in 1917
LEPIDOPTERANS Karner Blue   Ontario in 1991
  Frosted Elfin   Ontario in 1988
  Island Marble   British Columbia before 1910
MOLLUSCS Dwarf Wedgemussel   New Brunswick in 1968
PLANTS Spring blue-eyed Mary   Ontario not observed since 1954
  Illinois Tick-trefoil   Ontario not observed since 1888

ENDANGERED

MAMMALS American Badger (jacksoni subspecies) , American Badger (jeffersonil suspecies) , Peary
  Caribou (Banks Island population & High Artic population) , Woodland Caribou , Swift Fox ,
  Vancouver Island Marmot , American Marten , Beluga Whale (Ungava population & St.
  Lawrence River population & Southern Baffin Island-Cumberland Sound) , Bowhead Whale
  (Eastern Artic population & Western Artic population) , Killer Whale , Right Whale , Wolverine
BIRDS Northern Bobwhite , Western Yellow-breasted Chat , Whooping Crane , Eskimo Curlew ,
  Flycatcher , Sage Grouse (prairie pop.) , Barn Owl (eastern pop.) Acadian, Burrowing Owl ,
  Northern Spotted Owl , Piping Plover (circumcinctus subspecies) , Mountain Plover , King Rail ,
  Eastern Loggerhead Shrike , Henslow's Sparrow , Roseate Tern , Sage Thrasher , Kirtland's
  Warbler , Prothonotary Warbler , White-headed Woodpecker
REPTILES Blue Racer , Lake Erie Water Snake , Night Snake , Sharp-tailed Snake , Leatherback Turtle
AMPHIBIANS Northern Cricket Frog , Northern Leopard Frog , Oregon Spotted Frog , Rocky Mountain Tailed
  Frog , Tiger Salamander
FISHES Nooksack Dace , Morrison Creek Lamprey , Atlantic Salmon , Benthic Paxton Lake Stickleback ,
  Benthic Vananda Creek Stickleback , Limnetic Paxton Lake Stickleback , Limnetic Vananda
  Creek Stickleback , Salish Sucker , Aurora Trout , Atlantic Whitefish
LEPIDOPTERANS Island Blue , Taylor's Checkerspot , Maritime Ringlet
MOLLUSCS Rayed Bean , Wavy-rayed Lampmussel , Mudpuppy Mussel , Hotwater Physa , Northern
  Riffleshell , Banff Springs Snail , Snuffbox
PLANTS Gattinger's Agalinis , Skinner's Agalinis , Scarlet Ammannia , Eastern Mountain Avens , Deltoid
  Balsamroot , Bluehearts , Long's Braya , Tall Bugbane , Bashful Bulrush , Slender Bush-clover ,
  Water-plantain Buttercup , Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus , Pink Coreopsis , Tiny Cryptanthe ,
  Southern Maidenhair Fern , White Prairie Gentian , American Ginseng , Virginia Goat's-rue ,
  Showy Goldenrod , Small White Lady's Slipper , Seaside Birds-foot Lotus , Furbish's Lousewort ,
  Prairie Lupine , Pink Milkwort , Hoary Mountain-mint , Red Mulberry , Western Prairie Fringed
  Orchid , Bearded Owl-clover , Golden Paintbrush , Heart-leaved Plantain , Large Whorled
  Pagonia , Nodding Pagonia , Small Whorled Pogonia , Engelmann's Quillwort , Bear's foot
  Sanicle , False Hop Sedge , Juniper Sedge , Horsetail Spik-rush , Thread-leaved Sundew ,
  Pitcher's Thistle , Toothcup , Cucumber Tree , Drooping Trillium , Purple Twayblade , Barren's
  Willow , Spooted Wintergreen , Wood-poppy , Blunt-lobed Woodsia , Tall Woolly-heads
MOSSES Poor Pocket Moss , Rigid Apple Moss
LICHENS Centipede Seaside

THREATENED

MAMMALS Pallid Bat , Wood Bison , Peary Caribou (Low Artic pop.) , Woodland Caribou (Boreal &
  Southern Mountain pop.) , Ermine (haldarum subspecies) , Townsend's Mole , Sea Otter ,
  Harbour Porpoise ,Pacific Water Shrew , Beluga Whale (Eastern Hudson pop.) , Humpback
  Whale , Killer Whale (Northeast Pacific northern resident & Northeast Pacifis transient pop.)
BIRDS Least Bittern , Anatum Peregrine Falcon , Queen Charlotte Goshawk , Ross's Gull , Marbled
  Murrelet , Sprague's Pipit , Prairie Loggerhead Shrike , Hooded Warbler
REPTILES Butler's Gartersnake , Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake , Black Rat Snake , Eastern Fox Snake ,
  Eastern Hog-nosed Snake , Queen Snake , Blanding's Turtle , Spiny Softshell Turtle
AMPHIBIANS Allegheny Salamander , Dusky Mountain , Jefferson Salamander , Pacific Giant Salamander ,
  Great Basin Spadefoot , Fowler's Toad
FISHES Lake Chubsucker , Blackfin Cisco , Shortjaw Cisco , Shortnose Cisco , Channel Darter , Eastern
  Sand Darter , Spotted Gar , Cowlchan Lake Lamprey , Margined Madtom , Western Silvery
  Minnow , Black Redhorse , Copper Redhorse , Cultus Pygmy Sculpin , Deepwater Sculpin ,
  Shorthead Sculpin ,Rosyface Shiner , Lake Utopia Dwarf Smelt , Enos Lake Stickleback , Lake
  Whitefish , Northern Wolffish , Spotted Wolffish
LEPIDOPTERANS Behr's Hairstreak (Columbia) , Dun Skipper
MOLLUSCS Northern Abalone
PLANTS Anticosti Aster , Western Silver-leaved Aster , White Wood Aster , White-top Aster , Dense
  Blazing Star , Western Blue-flag , Fernald's Braya , Buffalograss , American Chestnut ,
  Kentucky Coffee-tree , Colicroot , Scouler's Corydalis , Deerberry , Mexican Mosquito Fern ,
  Plymouth Gentian , Golden Crest , Goldenseat , Round-leaved Greenbrier , van Brunt's Jacob's
  Ladder , Lyall's Mariposa Lily , Small-flowered Lipocarpha , Slender Mouse-ear-cress , Phantom
  Orchid , Hairy Prairie-clover , Redroot , Purple Sanicle , Soapweed , Western Spiderwort ,
  Tubercled Spike-rush , Sand Verbena , Bird's-foot Violet , Yellow Montane Violet ,
  Water-pennywort , American Water-willow
MOSS Haller's Apple Moss

SPECIAL CONCERN (vulnerable)

MAMMALS Fringed Bat , Keen's Long-eared Bat , Spotted Bat , Grizzly Bear , Polar Bear , Mountain
  Beaver , Nuttall's Cottontail , Grey Fox , Ord's Kangaroo Rat , Eastern Mole , Western Harvest
  Mouse , Black-tailed Prairie Dog , Harbour Seal , Gaspe Shrew , Southern Flying Squirrel ,
  Woodland Vole , Beluga Whale (Eastern High Artic pop.) , Blue Whale , Fin Whale , Humpback
  Whale (Western North Atlantic pop.) , Killer Whale (Northeast Pacific offshore pop.) ,
  Northern Bottlenose Whale , Sowerby's Beaked Whale , Eastern Wolf , Wolverine (Western
  pop.)
BIRDS Eastern Yellow-breasted Chat , Long-billed Curlew , Harlequin Duck , Peale's Peregrine Falcon ,
  Tundra Peregrine Falcon , Barrow's Goldeneye , Ivory Gull , Ferruginous Hawk , Red-shouldered
  Hawk , Pacific Great Blue Heron , Ancient Murrelet , Barn Owl , Flammulated Owl , Short-eared
  Owl
REPTILES Eastern Short-horned Lizard , Eastern Yellow-belled Racer , Five-lined Skink , Northern Prairie
  Skink , Spotted Turtle , Wood Turtle
AMPIHIBIANS Coast Tailed Frog , Northern Leopard Frog , Northern REd-leeged Frog , Coeur d'Alene
  Salamander , Smallmouth Salamander , Spring Salamander , Great Palins Toad
FISHES Bigmouth Buffalo, Black Buffalo , Silver Chub , Spring Cisco , Atlantic Cod , Redside Dace ,
  SpeckledDace , Umatilla Dace , Greenside Darter , Klyl , Chestnut Lamprey , Northern Brook
  Lamprey , Northern Madtom , Pugnose Minnow , Pighead Prickleback , River Redhorse , Pacific
  Sardine , Columbia Mottled Sculpin , Fourhorn Sculpin , Bigmouth Shiner , Bridle Shiner ,
  Pugnose Shiner , Silver Shiner , Charlotte Stickleback , Unarmoured , Giant Stickleback , Green
  Sturgeon , Shortnose Sturgeon , White Sturgeon , Spotted Sucker , Orangespotted Sunfish ,
  redbreasted Sunfish ,Blackstripe Topminnow , Warmouth , Squanga Whitefish , Atlantic
  Wolffish , Bering Wolffish
LEPIDOPTERANS Monarch , Weidemeyer's Admiral
MOLLUSCS Olympia Oyster
PLANTS Blue Ash , Bathurst Aster , Crooked-stem Aster , Gulf of St. Lawrence Aster , Willow Aster ,
  Branched Bartonia , Vancouver Island Beggarticks , Long's Bulrush , American Columbo ,
  American Hart's-tongue Fern , Broad Beech Fern , Coastal Wood Fern , Provancher's Fleabane,
  Victorin's Gentian , Riddell's Goldenrod , Smooth Goosefoot , Green Dragon , Dwarf Hackberry ,
  Mackenzie Hairgrass , Giant Helleborine , Common Hop-tree , Wild Hyacinth , Tuberous
  Indian-plantain , lilaeopsis , Hare-footed locoweed , Macoun's Meadowfoam , Fernaid's
  Milk-vetch , Shumard Oak , Eastern Prairie Orchid , Fringed , Sweet Pepperbush , Hill's
  Pondweed , Bolander's Quillwort , Climbing Prairie Rose , Swamp Rose-mallow , False
  Rue-anemone , New Jersey Rush , Floccose Tansy , Athabasca Thrift , Victorin's
  Water-hemlock , Felt-leaf Willow , Sand-dune Short-capsuled Willow , Turnor's Willow ,
  Tall Woolly-heads , Large-headed Yarrow , Woolly
LICHENS Cryptic Paw , Oldgrowth Speckleberry , Seaside Bone

NOT AT RISK

MAMMALS American Badger (taxus subspecies) , American Black Bear , Woodland Caribou (Newfoundland &
  Northern Mountain pop.) , Nuttall's Cottontail (Prairie pop.) , Atlantic White-sided Dolphin ,
  Bottlenose Dolphin , Common Dolphin , Northern Right Dolphin , Whale , Pacific White-sided Dolphin ,
  Risso's Dolphin , Striped Dolphin , White-beaked Dolphin , Plains Pocket Gopher , Canada Lynx ,
  Narwhal , Dall's Porpoise , California Sea Lion , Steller Sea Lion , Bearded Seal , Grey Seal , Harbour
  Seal , Hooded Seal , Northern Elephant Seal , Northern Fur Seal , Ringed Seal , Cascade Mantled
  Ground Squirrel , Fox Squirrel , Atlantis Walrus , Long-tailed Weasel , Baird's Beaked Whale , Beluga
  Whale (Western Hudson Bay & Beaufort Sea/Artic Ocean pop.) , Blainville'sBeaked Whale , Cuvier's
  Beaked Whale , False Killer Whale , Grey Whale (Northeast Pacific pop.) , Hubb's Beaked Whale ,
  Long-finned Whale , Northern Bottlenose Whale , Pygmy Sperm Whale , Short-finned Whale ,
  Sperm Whale , Stejneger's Beaked Whale , True's Beaked Whale , Northern Grey Wolf , Southern
  Grey Wolf
BIRDS Eastern Bluebird , Western Yellow-breasted Chat (Prairie pop.) , American Coot , Double-crested
  Cormorant , Greater Sand-hill Crane , Bald Eagle , Golden Eagle , Prairie Falcon , Grey Flycatcher ,
  Northern Goshawk , Red-necked Grebe , Gyrfalcon , Northern Harrier , Cooper's Hawk , Red-tailed
  Hawk , Rough-legged Hawk , Sharp-shined Hawk , Common Loon , Yellow-billed Loon , Merlin ,
  Boreal Owl , Great Grey Owl , Northern Hawk Owl , Snowy Owl , American White Pelican , Eastern
  Screech Owl , Baird's Sparrow , Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow , Trumpeter Swan , Black Tern ,
  Caspian Tern , Common Tern , Prairie Warbler , Canyon Wren , Sedge Wren
REPTILES Western Yellow-bellied Racer
  Ensatina , Columbia Spotted Frog , Northern Leopard Frog (Eastern pop.) , Pikerel Frog , Western
  Chous Frog , Mudpuppy , Four-toed Salamander , Northern Dusky Salamander , Northwestern
  Salamander , Tiger Salamander (Prairie/Boreal pop.) , Western Salamander , Cope's Grey
  Red-backed Treefrog
FISHES Bloater , Hornyhead Chub , River Chub , Leopard Dace , Least Darter , River Darter , Tesselated
  Darter , Blueback Herring , Banded Killfish (Mainland pop.) , Brindled Madtom , Bluntnose Minnow ,
  Cutlips Minnows , Eastern Silvery Minnow , Chain Pikerel , Redfin Pikerel , Golden Redhorse ,
  Fourhorn Sculpin (Salt water form) , Spoonhead Sculpin , Blackchin Shiner , Ghost Shiner , Redfin
  Shiner , Rosyface Shiner (Eastern pop.) , Striped Shiner , Weed Shiner , Brook Silverside , Central
  Stoneroller , Lake Sturgeon , Mountain Sucker , Green Sunfish , Longear Sunfish , Y-Prickleback
MOLLUSCS Rocky Mountain Capshell
PLANTS Short's Aster , Yukon Aster , Large-flowered Brickellia , Fameflower , Dwarf Fleabane , Northern
  Mock Goldenweed , False Mermaid , Blue Phlox , Rush Pink , Pacific Rhododendron , Wood's
  Sagebrush, Nebraska Sedge , Sand Stitchwort , Narrow-leaved Wallflower , Tyrrell's Willow ,
  Slender Wooly-heads

DATA DEFICIENT (indetermined)

MAMMALS Cougar (Eastern pop.) , Western Harvest Mouse (Prairie pop.) , Harbour Porpoise (Pacific Ocean
  pop.) , Harbour Seal (Atlantic & Artic coastal waters) , Sagebrush Vole , Dwarf Sperm Whale ,
  Killer Whale (Northwest Atlantic/Eastern Artic pop.) , Artic Grey Wolf
BIRDS Common Poorwill , Western ScreechOwl , Forster's Tern
FISHES Flathead Catfish , Chiselmouth , Bering Cisco , Darktail Lamprey , Spinynose Sculpin , Lake Whitefish
  (Mira River pop.)
MOLLUSCS Rocky Mountain Capshell (Eastern pop.) , Gatineau Tadpole Snail
PLANTS Little Barley , Rabbit-brush Goldenweed , Impoverished Pinweed , Kananaskis Whitlow-grass

 


COSEWIC - RESULTS FROM A MEETING ON NOVEMBER 2001
COSEWIC SPECIES AT RISK
CATEGORY/STATUS EXTINCT EXPIRATED ENDANGERED THREATENED VULNERABLE TOTALS
Mammals 2 4 16 14 25 61
Birds 3 2 20 8 21 54
Reptiles - 2 5 8 6 21
Amphibians - 1 5 5 7 18
Fishes 6 2 10 21 37 76
Lepidopterans - 3 3 2 2 10
Molluscs 1 1 7 1 1 11
Vascual Plants - 2 49 34 44 129
Mosses - - 2 1 - 3
Lichens - - 1 - 3 4

totals

12 17 118 94 146 387

 

 

COSEWIC SPECIES NOT AT RISK       COSEWIC INDETERMINED SPECIES
CATEGORY/STATUS NOT AT RISK       CATEGORY/STATUS DATA DEFICIENT
Mammals 47       Mamamals 8
Birds 35       Birds 3
Reptiles 1       Reptiles -
Amphibians 12       Amphibians -
Fishes 31       Fishes 6
Lepidopterans -       Lepidopterans -
Molluscs 1       Molluscs 2
Vascular Plants 16       Vascular Plants 4
Mosses -       Mosses -
Lichens -       Lichens -

Totals

143         23

 

 

 

 

The next 2 charts explain the status changes in species by COSEWIC on November 2001

Species by Status & Taxon
category/status extinct expirated endangered threatened vulnerable not at risk indetermined totals
Mammals - - 1 2 3 - 1 7
Birds - - - 2 6 - - 8
Reptiles - - - 2 - - - 2
Amphibians - 1 1 2 1 2 - 7
Fishes - - - 3 3 - - 6
Lepidopterans - - - - 1 - - 1
Molluscs - - - - - 1 1 2
Vascular Plants - - 1 1 4 - - 5
Mosses - - - 1 - - - 2
Lichens - - - - - - - 0

Totals

0 1 3 13 18 3 2 40

 

Species by Status and Type of Change
category/status

change

extinct expirated endangered threatened vulnerable not at risk indetermined totals
New - 1 3 2 2 3 1 12
Uplisted - - - 11 - - - 11
Downlisted - - - - - - - 0
No Change - - - - 16 - 1 17
Changed - - - - - - - 0
De-listed - - - - - - - 0

Totals

0 1 3 13 18 3 2 40

 

 

Species At Risk In Ontario

 

 

 

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