Endangered Species Act, 2007
ONTARIO REGULATION 230/08
SPECIES AT RISK IN ONTARIO LIST
Historical version for the period June 8, 2011 to January 12, 2012.
Last amendment: O. Reg. 224/11.
This is the English version of a bilingual regulation.
Extirpated species
1. The species listed in Schedule 1 are classified by COSSARO as extirpated species. O. Reg. 230/08, s. 1.
Endangered species
2. The species listed in Schedule 2 are classified by COSSARO as endangered species. O. Reg. 230/08, s. 2.
Threatened species
3. The species listed in Schedule 3 are classified by COSSARO as threatened species. O. Reg. 230/08, s. 3.
Special concern species
4. The species listed in Schedule 4 are classified by COSSARO as special concern species. O. Reg. 230/08, s. 4.
Geographical limitations
5. If the classification of a species applies only to a specified geographic area in Ontario, the area is described in a footnote
to the relevant Schedule. O. Reg. 230/08, s. 5.
6. OMITTED (PROVIDES FOR COMING INTO FORCE OF PROVISIONS OF THIS REGULATION). O. Reg. 230/08, s. 6.
SCHEDULE 1
EXTIRPATED SPECIES
Item
Common Name
Mosses
1.
Incurved Grizzled Moss
Vascular Plants
2.
Illinois Tick-trefoil
3.
Spring Blue-eyed Mary
Insects
4.
Eastern Persius Duskywing
5.
Frosted Elfin
6.
Karner Blue
Fishes
7.
Gravel Chub
8.
Paddlefish
Amphibians
9.
Eastern Tiger Salamander
10.
Spring Salamander
Reptiles
11.
Timber Rattlesnake
Birds
12.
Eskimo Curlew
13.
Greater Prairie-Chicken
Scientific Name
Ptychomitrium incurvum
Desmodium illinoense
Collinsia verna
Erynnis persius persius
Callophrys irus
Lycaeides melissa samuelis
Erimystax x-punctatus
Polyodon spathula
Ambystoma tigrinum
Gyrinophilus porphyriticus
Crotalus horridus
Numenius borealis
Tympanuchus cupido
O. Reg. 224/11, s. 1.
SCHEDULE 2
ENDANGERED SPECIES
Item
Lichens
1.
Mosses
Common Name
Scientific Name
Pale-bellied Frost Lichen
Physconia subpallida
1
2.
Spoon-leaved Moss
Vascular Plants
3.
American Chestnut
4.
American Columbo
5.
American Ginseng
6.
Bent Spike-rush
7.
Bird’s-foot Violet
8.
Bluehearts
9.
Blunt-lobed Woodsia
10.
Butternut
11.
Cherry Birch
12.
Cucumber Tree
13.
Drooping Trillium
14.
Eastern Flowering Dogwood
15.
Eastern Prairie Fringed-orchid
16.
Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus1
17.
Engelmann’s Quillwort
18.
False Hop Sedge
19.
Few-flowered Club-rush2
20.
Forked Three-awned Grass
21.
Four-leaved Milkweed
22.
Gattinger’s Agalinis
23.
Heart-leaved Plantain
24.
Hoary Mountain-mint
25.
Horsetail Spike-rush
26.
Juniper Sedge
27.
Large Whorled Pogonia
28.
Nodding Pogonia
29.
Ogden’s Pondweed
30.
Pink Milkwort
31.
Red Mulberry
32.
Scarlet Ammannia
33.
Showy Goldenrod (Great Lakes Plains population)
34.
Skinner’s Agalinis
35.
Slender Bush-clover3
36.
Small White Lady’s-slipper
37.
Small Whorled Pogonia
38.
Spotted Wintergreen
39.
Toothcup
40.
Virginia Goat’s-rue
41.
Virginia Mallow
42.
Western Silvery Aster
43.
White Prairie Gentian
44.
Wood-poppy
Molluscs
45.
Eastern Pondmussel
46.
Fawnsfoot
47.
Kidneyshell
48.
Mudpuppy Mussel
49.
Northern Riffleshell
50.
Rayed Bean
51.
Round Hickorynut
52.
Round Pigtoe
53.
Snuffbox
Insects
54.
Aweme Borer Moth
55.
Bogbean Buckmoth
56.
Laura’s Clubtail
57.
Northern Barrens Tiger Beetle
58.
Rapids Clubtail
59.
Rusty-patched Bumble Bee
Fishes
60.
American Eel
Bryoandersonia illecebra
Castanea dentata
Frasera caroliniensis
Panax quinquefolius
Eleocharis geniculata
Viola pedata
Buchnera americana
Woodsia obtusa
Juglans cinerea
Betula lenta
Magnolia acuminata
Trillium flexipes
Cornus florida
Platanthera leucophaea
Opuntia humifusa
Isoetes engelmannii
Carex lupuliformis
Trichophorum planifolium
Aristida basiramea
Asclepias quadrifolia
Agalinis gattingeri
Plantago cordata
Pycnanthemum incanum
Eleocharis equisetoides
Carex juniperorum
Isotria verticillata
Triphora trianthophora
Potamogeton ogdenii
Polygala incarnata
Morus rubra
Ammannia robusta
Solidago speciosa
Agalinis skinneriana
Lespedeza virginica
Cypripedium candidum
Isotria medeoloides
Chimaphila maculata
Rotala ramosior
Tephrosia virginiana
Sida hermaphrodita
Symphyotrichum sericeum
Gentiana alba
Stylophorum diphyllum
Ligumia nasuta
Truncilla donaciformis
Ptychobranchus fasciolaris
Simpsonaias ambigua
Epioblasma torulosa rangiana
Villosa fabalis
Obovaria subrotunda
Pleurobema sintoxia
Epioblasma triquetra
Papaipema aweme
Hemileuca sp.
Stylurus laurae
Cicindela patruela
Gomphus quadricolor
Bombus affinis
Anguilla rostrata
2
61.
Aurora Trout
62.
Eastern Sand Darter
63.
Northern Madtom
64.
Pugnose Shiner
65.
Redside Dace
66.
Shortnose Cisco
Amphibians
67.
Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander
68.
Fowler’s Toad
69.
Jefferson Salamander
70.
Northern Cricket Frog
71.
Northern Dusky Salamander
72.
Small-mouthed Salamander
Reptiles
73.
Blue Racer
74.
Butler’s Gartersnake
75.
Common Five-lined Skink (Carolinian population)
76.
Eastern Foxsnake (Carolinian population)
77.
Gray Ratsnake (Carolinian population)
78.
Lake Erie Watersnake
79.
Queensnake
80.
Spotted Turtle
81.
Wood Turtle
Birds
82.
Acadian Flycatcher
83.
Barn Owl
84.
Golden Eagle
85.
Henslow’s Sparrow
86.
King Rail
87.
Kirtland’s Warbler
88.
Loggerhead Shrike
89.
Northern Bobwhite
90.
Piping Plover
91.
Prothonotary Warbler
92.
Red Knot rufa subspecies
Mammals
93.
American Badger
94.
Mountain Lion or Cougar
Salvelinus fontinalis timagamiensis
Ammocrypta pellucida
Noturus stigmosus
Notropis anogenus
Clinostomus elongatus
Coregonus reighardi
Desmognathus ochrophaeus
Anaxyrus fowleri
Ambystoma jeffersonianum
Acris crepitans
Desmognathus fuscus
Ambystoma texanum
Coluber constrictor foxii
Thamnophis butleri
Plestiodon fasciatus
Pantherophis gloydi
Pantherophis spiloides
Nerodia sipedon insularum
Regina septemvittata
Clemmys guttata
Glyptemys insculpta
Empidonax virescens
Tyto alba
Aquila chrysaetos
Ammodramus henslowii
Rallus elegans
Dendroica kirtlandii
Lanius ludovicianus
Colinus virginianus
Charadrius melodus
Protonotaria citrea
Calidris canutus rufa
Taxidea taxus
Puma concolor
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.
O. Reg. 224/11, s. 1.
SCHEDULE 3
THREATENED SPECIES
Item
Common Name
Lichens
1.
Flooded Jellyskin
Vascular Plants
2.
American Water-willow
3.
Branched Bartonia
4.
Colicroot
5.
Common Hoptree
6.
Crooked-stem Aster
7.
Deerberry
8.
Dense Blazing Star
Scientific Name
Leptogium rivulare
Justicia americana
Bartonia paniculata
Aletris farinosa
Ptelea trifoliata
Symphyotrichum prenanthoides
Vaccinium stamineum
Liatris spicata
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9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
Molluscs
25.
26.
27.
Fishes
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
Reptiles
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
Birds
43.
44.
45.
46.
47.
48.
49.
Mammals
50.
51.
52.
53.
Dwarf Hackberry
Dwarf Lake Iris
False Rue-anemone
Goldenseal
Hill’s Thistle
Houghton’s Goldenrod
Kentucky Coffee-tree
Lakeside Daisy
Pitcher’s Thistle
Purple Twayblade
Round-leaved Greenbrier
Showy Goldenrod (Boreal population)
Small-flowered Lipocarpha
White Wood Aster
Wild Hyacinth
Willowleaf Aster
Celtis tenuifolia
Iris lacustris
Enemion biternatum
Hydrastis canadensis
Cirsium hillii
Solidago houghtonii
Gymnocladus dioicus
Hymenoxys herbacea
Cirsium pitcheri
Liparis liliifolia
Smilax rotundifolia
Solidago speciosa
Lipocarpha micrantha
Eurybia divaricata
Camassia scilloides
Symphyotrichum praealtum
Mapleleaf Mussel
Rainbow Mussel
Wavy-rayed Lampmussel
Quadrula quadrula
Villosa iris
Lampsilis fasciola
Black Redhorse
Channel Darter
Cutlip Minnow
Lake Chubsucker
Lake Sturgeon (Great Lakes-Upper St. Lawrence River
population)
Lake Sturgeon (Northwestern Ontario population)
Shortjaw Cisco
Spotted Gar
Moxostoma duquesnei
Percina copelandi
Exoglossum maxillingua
Erimyzon sucetta
Acipenser fulvescens
Blanding’s Turtle
Eastern Foxsnake (Georgian Bay population)
Eastern Hog-nosed Snake
Eastern Musk Turtle
Gray Ratsnake (Frontenac Axis population)
Massasauga
Spiny Softshell
Emydoidea blandingii
Pantherophis gloydi
Heterodon platirhinos
Sternotherus odoratus
Pantherophis spiloides
Sistrurus catenatus
Apalone spinifera
American White Pelican
Bobolink
Cerulean Warbler
Chimney Swift
Least Bittern
Peregrine Falcon
Whip-poor-will
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Dendroica cerulea
Chaetura pelagica
Ixobrychus exilis
Falco peregrinus
Caprimulgus vociferus
Grey Fox
Polar Bear
Wolverine
Woodland Caribou (Forest-dwelling boreal population)
Urocyon cinereoargenteus
Ursus maritimus
Gulo gulo
Rangifer tarandus caribou
Acipenser fulvescens
Coregonus zenithicus
Lepisosteus oculatus
O. Reg. 224/11, s. 1.
SCHEDULE 4
SPECIAL CONCERN SPECIES
Item
Common Name
Mosses
1.
Pygmy Pocket Moss
Vascular Plants
2.
Blue Ash
3.
Broad Beech Fern
4.
Climbing Prairie Rose
Scientific Name
Fissidens exilis
Fraxinus quadrangulata
Phegopteris hexagonoptera
Rosa setigera
4
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
Insects
12.
13.
Fishes
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
Reptiles
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
Birds
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
Mammals
44.
45.
46.
47.
Green Dragon
Hart’s-tongue Fern
Hill’s Pondweed
Riddell’s Goldenrod
Shumard Oak
Swamp Rose-mallow
Tuberous Indian-plantain
Arisaema dracontium
Asplenium scolopendrium
Potamogeton hillii
Solidago riddellii
Quercus shumardii
Hibiscus moscheutos
Arnoglossum plantagineum
Monarch
West Virginia White
Danaus plexippus
Pieris virginiensis
Blackstripe Topminnow
Bridle Shiner
Grass Pickerel
Lake Sturgeon (Southern Hudson Bay-James Bay population)
Northern Brook Lamprey
Pugnose Minnow
River Redhorse
Silver Chub
Silver Shiner
Spotted Sucker
Upper Great Lakes Kiyi
Warmouth
Fundulus notatus
Notropis bifrenatus
Esox americanus vermiculatus
Acipenser fulvescens
Ichthyomyzon fossor
Opsopoeodus emiliae
Moxostoma carinatum
Macrhybopsis storeriana
Notropis photogenis
Minytrema melanops
Coregonus kiyi kiyi
Lepomis gulosus
Common Five-lined Skink (Southern Shield population)
Eastern Ribbonsnake
Milksnake
Northern Map Turtle
Snapping Turtle
Plestiodon fasciatus
Thamnophis sauritus
Lampropeltis triangulum
Graptemys geographica
Chelydra serpentina
Bald Eagle
Black Tern
Canada Warbler
Common Nighthawk
Golden-winged Warbler
Hooded Warbler
Horned Grebe
Louisiana Waterthrush
Olive-sided Flycatcher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Short-eared Owl
Yellow Rail
Yellow-breasted Chat
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Chlidonias niger
Wilsonia canadensis
Chordeiles minor
Vermivora chrysoptera
Wilsonia citrina
Podiceps auritus
Seiurus motacilla
Contopus cooperi
Melanerpes erythrocephalus
Asio flammeus
Coturnicops noveboracensis
Icteria virens
Beluga
Eastern Mole
Eastern Wolf
Woodland Vole
Delphinapterus leucas
Scalopus aquaticus
Canis lupus lycaon
Microtus pinetorum
O. Reg. 224/11, s. 1.
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