List of endangered species in Virginia
Below is a list of the endangered and threatened animal and plant species in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States.
Animals
Mammals
- Gray bat (Myotis grisescens)
- Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis)
- Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus)
- West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus)
- Dismal Swamp southeastern shrew (Sorex longirostris fisheri)
- Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
- Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
Birds
- Piping plover (Charadrius melodus)
- Roseate tern (Sterna dougallii dougallii)
- Red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis)
- Kirtland’s warbler(Dendroica kirtlandii)
Reptiles
- Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)
- Hawksbill turtle(Eretmochelys imbricata)
- Kemp's ridley(Lepidochelys kempii)
- Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
- Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta)
- Bog turtle (Clemmys muhlenbergii)
Fish
- Slender chub (Erimystax cahni)
- Spotfin chub (Cyprinella monacha)
- Duskytail darter (Etheostoma percnurum)
- Roanoke logperch (Percina rex)
- Shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum)
- Blackside dace (Phoxinus cumberlandensis)
- Yellowfin madtom (Noturus flavipinnis)
Insects
- Northeastern beach tiger beetle (Cicindeladorsalis dorsalis)
- Mitchell’s satyr(Neonympha mitchellii)
Crustaceans
- Lee County cave isopod (Lirceus usdagalun)
- Madison cave isopod (Antrolana lira)
Gastropods
- Virginia fringed mountain snail(Polygyriscus virginianus)
Bivalves
- Purple bean(Villosa perpurpurea)
- Cumberlandian combshell(Epioblasma brevidens)
- Fanshell (Cyprogenia stegaria)
- Appalachian monkeyface(Quadrula sparsa)
- Cumberland monkeyface(Quadrula intermedia)
- Pink mucket(Lampsilis abrupta)
- Oyster mussel (Epioblasma capsaeformis)
- Birdwing pearlymussel (Lemiox rimosus)
- Cracking pearly mussel(Hemistena lata)
- Dromedary pearly mussel(Dromus dromas)
- Green blossom pearlymussel (Epioblasma torulosa gubernaculum)
- Littlewing pearlymussel(Pegias fabula)
- Fine-rayed pigtoe(Fusconaia cuneolus)
- Rough pigtoe(Pleurobema plenum)
- Shiny pigtoe (Fusconaia cor)
- Rough rabbitsfoot(Quadrula cylindrica strigillata)
- Tan riffleshell(Epioblasma florentina walkeri)
- James River spinymussel (Pleurobema collina)
- Dwarf wedgemussel (Alasmidonta heterodon)
Plants
- Sensitive joint-vetch (Aeschynomene virginica)
- Shale barren rock-cress(Arabis serotina)
- Betulauber)
- Small-anthered bittercress (Cardamine micranthera)
- Smooth purple coneflower (Echinacea laevigata)
- Virginia sneezeweed (Heleniumvirginicum)
- Swamp pink(Helonias bullata)
- Peter's mountain mallow(Iliamna corei)
- Small whorled pogonia(Isotria medeoloides)
- Eastern prairie fringed orchid (Platanthera leucophaea)
- Rhusmichauxii)
- American chaffseed(Schwalbea americana)
- Northeastern bulrush (Scirpusancistrochaetus)
- Virginia spiraea (Spiraeavirginiana)