Endangered Species Act, 2007
ONTARIO REGULATION 230/08
species at risk in ontario list
Historical version for the period June 23, 2008 to June 29, 2008.
No amendments.
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
Mosses
1. / Incurved Grizzled Moss / Ptychomitrium incurvum
Vascular Plants
2. / Illinois Tick-trefoil / Desmodium illinoense
3. / Spring Blue-eyed Mary / Collinsia verna
Insects
4. / Eastern Persius Duskywing / Erynnis persius persius
Fishes
5. / Atlantic Salmon (Great Lakes population) / Salmo salar
6. / Gravel Chub / Erimystax x-punctatus
7. / Paddlefish / Polyodon spathula
Amphibians
8. / Spring Salamander / Gyrinophilus porphyriticus
9. / Tiger Salamander / Ambystoma tigrinum
Birds
10. / Greater Prairie-Chicken / Tympanuchus cupido
O.Reg. 230/08, Sched.1.
schedule 2
endangered species
Mosses
1. / Spoon-leaved Moss / Bryoandersonia illecebra
Vascular Plants
2. / American Chestnut / Castanea dentata
3. / American Columbo / Frasera caroliniensis
4. / American Ginseng / Panax quinquefolius
5. / Bird’s-foot Violet / Viola pedata
6. / Bluehearts / Buchnera americana
7. / Blunt-lobed Woodsia / Woodsia obtusa
8. / Butternut / Juglans cinerea
9. / Cherry Birch / Betula lenta
10. / Cucumber Tree / Magnolia acuminata
11. / Drooping Trillium / Trillium flexipes
12. / Eastern Prairie Fringed-orchid / Platanthera leucophaea
13. / Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus1 / Opuntia humifusa
14. / Engelmann’s Quillwort / Isoetes engelmannii
15. / False Hop Sedge / Carex lupuliformis
16. / Few-flowered Club-rush or Bashful Bulrush2 / Trichophorum planifolium
17. / Forked Three-awned Grass / Aristida basiramea
18. / Gattinger’s Agalinis / Agalinis gattingeri
19. / Heart-leaved Plantain / Plantago cordata
20. / Hoary Mountain-mint / Pycnanthemum incanum
21. / Horsetail Spike-rush / Eleocharis equisetoides
22. / Juniper Sedge / Carex juniperorum
23. / Large Whorled Pogonia / Isotria verticillata
24. / Nodding Pogonia / Triphora trianthophora
25. / Pink Milkwort / Polygala incarnata
26. / Pitcher’s Thistle / Cirsium pitcheri
27. / Purple Twayblade / Liparis liliifolia
28. / Red Mulberry / Morus rubra
29. / Scarlet Ammannia / Ammannia robusta
30. / Showy Goldenrod / Solidago speciosa
31. / Skinner’s Agalinis / Agalinis skinneriana
32. / Slender Bush-clover3 / Lespedeza virginica
33. / Small White Lady’s-slipper / Cypripedium candidum
34. / Small Whorled Pogonia / Isotria medeoloides
35. / Spotted Wintergreen / Chimaphila maculata
36. / Toothcup / Rotala ramosior
37. / Virginia Goat’s-rue / Tephrosia virginiana
38. / Western Silvery Aster / Symphyotrichum sericeum
39. / White Prairie Gentian / Gentiana alba
40. / Wood-poppy / Stylophorum diphyllum
Molluscs
41. / Kidneyshell / Ptychobranchus fasciolaris
42. / Mudpuppy Mussel / Simpsonaias ambigua
43. / Northern Riffleshell / Epioblasma torulosa rangiana
44. / Rayed Bean / Villosa fabalis
45. / Round Hickorynut / Obovaria subrotunda
46. / Round Pigtoe / Pleurobema sintoxia
47. / Snuffbox / Epioblasma triquetra
48. / Wavy-rayed Lampmussel / Lampsilis fasciola
Insects
49. / Aweme Borer Moth / Papaipema aweme
50. / Frosted Elfin / Callophrys irus
51. / Karner Blue / Lycaeides melissa samuelis
Fishes
52. / American Eel / Anguilla rostrata
53. / Aurora Trout / Salvelinus fontinalis timagamiensis
54. / Northern Madtom / Noturus stigmosus
55. / Pugnose Shiner / Notropis anogenus
56. / Shortnose Cisco / Coregonus reighardi
Amphibians
57. / Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander / Desmognathus ochrophaeus
58. / Northern Cricket Frog / Acris crepitans
59. / Northern Dusky Salamander / Desmognathus fuscus
60. / Small-mouthed Salamander / Ambystoma texanum
Reptiles
61. / Blue Racer / Coluber constrictor foxii
62. / Lake Erie Watersnake / Nerodia sipedon insularum
63. / Spotted Turtle / Clemmys guttata
64. / Timber Rattlesnake / Crotalus horridus
65. / Wood Turtle / Glyptemys insculpta
Birds
66. / Acadian Flycatcher / Empidonax virescens
67. / American White Pelican / Pelecanus erythrorhynchos
68. / Bald Eagle4 / Haliaeetus leucocephalus
69. / Barn Owl / Tyto alba
70. / Eskimo Curlew / Numenius borealis
71. / Golden Eagle / Aquila chrysaetos
72. / Henslow’s Sparrow / Ammodramus henslowii
73. / King Rail / Rallus elegans
74. / Kirtland’s Warbler / Dendroica kirtlandii
75. / Loggerhead Shrike / Lanius ludovicianus
76. / Northern Bobwhite / Colinus virginianus
77. / Piping Plover / Charadrius melodus
78. / Prothonotary Warbler / Protonotaria citrea
Mammals
79. / American Badger / Taxidea taxus
80. / Mountain Lion or Cougar / 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 or Bashful Bulrush 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.
4 The classification of Bald Eagle applies to the part of Ontario south of the French and Mattawa Rivers.
O.Reg. 230/08, Sched.2.
schedule 3
threatened species
Lichens
1. / Flooded Jellyskin / Leptogium rivulare
Vascular Plants
2. / American Water-willow / Justicia americana
3. / Branched Bartonia / Bartonia paniculata
4. / Colicroot / Aletris farinosa
5. / Common Hoptree / Ptelea trifoliata
6. / Crooked-stem Aster / Symphyotrichum prenanthoides
7. / Deerberry / Vaccinium stamineum
8. / Dense Blazing Star / Liatris spicata
9. / Dwarf Hackberry / Celtis tenuifolia
10. / Dwarf Lake Iris / Iris lacustris
11. / False Rue-anemone / Enemion biternatum
12. / Goldenseal / Hydrastis canadensis
13. / Hill’s Thistle / Cirsium hillii
14. / Houghton’s Goldenrod / Solidago houghtonii
15. / Kentucky Coffee-tree / Gymnocladus dioicus
16. / Lakeside Daisy / Hymenoxys herbacea
17. / Round-leaved Greenbrier / Smilax rotundifolia
18. / Small-flowered Lipocarpha / Lipocarpha micrantha
19. / White Wood Aster / Eurybia divaricata
20. / Wild Hyacinth / Camassia scilloides
21. / Willowleaf Aster / Symphyotrichum praealtum
Molluscs
22. / Mapleleaf Mussel / Quadrula quadrula
23. / Rainbow Mussel / Villosa iris
Fishes
24. / Black Redhorse / Moxostoma duquesnei
25. / Channel Darter / Percina copelandi
26. / Cutlip Minnow / Exoglossum maxillingua
27. / Eastern Sand Darter / Ammocrypta pellucida
28. / Lake Chubsucker / Erimyzon sucetta
29. / Redside Dace / Clinostomus elongatus
30. / Shortjaw Cisco / Coregonus zenithicus
31. / Spotted Gar / Lepisosteus oculatus
Amphibians
32. / Fowler’s Toad / Bufo fowleri
33. / Jefferson Salamander / Ambystoma jeffersonianum
Reptiles
34. / Blanding’s Turtle / Emydoidea blandingii
35. / Butler’s Gartersnake / Thamnophis butleri
36. / Eastern Foxsnake / Elaphe gloydi
37. / Eastern Hog-nosed Snake / Heterodon platirhinos
38. / Eastern Ratsnake / Elaphe obsoleta
39. / Massasauga / Sistrurus catenatus
40. / Queen Snake / Regina septemvittata
41. / Spiny Softshell / Apalone spinifera
42. / Stinkpot / Sternotherus odoratus
Birds
43. / Hooded Warbler / Wilsonia citrina
44. / Least Bittern / Ixobrychus exilis
45. / Peregrine Falcon / Falco peregrinus
Mammals
46. / Grey Fox / Urocyon cinereoargenteus
47. / Wolverine / Gulo gulo
48. / Woodland Caribou (Forest-dwelling boreal population) / Rangifer tarandus caribou
O.Reg. 230/08, Sched.3.
schedule 4
special concern species
Mosses
1. / Pygmy Pocket Moss / Fissidens exilis
Vascular Plants
2. / American Hart’s-tongue Fern / Asplenium scolopendrium americanum
3. / Blue Ash / Fraxinus quadrangulata
4. / Broad Beech Fern / Phegopteris hexagonoptera
5. / Climbing Prairie Rose / Rosa setigera
6. / Green Dragon / Arisaema dracontium
7. / Hill’s Pondweed / Potamogeton hillii
8. / Riddell’s Goldenrod / Solidago riddellii
9. / Shumard Oak / Quercus shumardii
10. / Swamp Rose-mallow / Hibiscus moscheutos
11. / Tuberous Indian-plantain / Arnoglossum plantagineum
Insects
12. / Monarch / Danaus plexippus
13. / West Virginia White / Pieris virginiensis
Fishes
14. / Bigmouth Buffalo / Ictiobus cyprinellus
15. / Black Buffalo / Ictiobus niger
16. / Blackstripe Topminnow / Fundulus notatus
17. / Bridle Shiner / Notropis bifrenatus
18. / Grass Pickerel / Esox americanus vermiculatus
19. / Lake Sturgeon / Acipenser fulvescens
20. / Northern Brook Lamprey / Ichthyomyzon fossor
21. / Orangespotted Sunfish / Lepomis humilis
22. / Pugnose Minnow / Opsopoeodus emiliae
23. / River Redhorse / Moxostoma carinatum
24. / Silver Chub / Macrhybopsis storeriana
25. / Silver Shiner / Notropis photogenis
26. / Spotted Sucker / Minytrema melanops
27. / Upper Great Lakes Kiyi / Coregonus kiyi kiyi
28. / Warmouth / Lepomis gulosus
Reptiles
29. / Eastern Ribbonsnake / Thamnophis sauritus
30. / Five-lined Skink / Eumeces fasciatus
31. / Milksnake / Lampropeltis triangulum
32. / Northern Map Turtle / Graptemys geographica
Birds
33. / Bald Eagle1 / Haliaeetus leucocephalus
34. / Black Tern / Chlidonias niger
35. / Cerulean Warbler / Dendroica cerulea
36. / Golden-winged Warbler / Vermivora chrysoptera
37. / Louisiana Waterthrush / Seiurus motacilla
38. / Red-headed Woodpecker / Melanerpes erythrocephalus
39. / Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
40. / Yellow Rail / Coturnicops noveboracensis
41. / Yellow-breasted Chat / Icteria virens
Mammals
42. / Beluga / Delphinapterus leucas
43. / Eastern Mole / Scalopus aquaticus
44. / Eastern Wolf / Canis lupus lycaon
45. / Polar Bear / Ursus maritimus
46. / Woodland Vole / Microtus pinetorum
Note to Schedule 4:
1 The classification of Bald Eagle applies to the part of Ontario north of the French and Mattawa Rivers.
O.Reg. 230/08, Sched.4.
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