Oklahoma's Threatened and Endangered Species

Wildlife species may be classified as threatened or endangered at either the state or the federal (national) level.

Nationally, a species may be listed as threatened or endangered throughout its range under the authority of the Endangered Species Act, which is a federal law enacted in the early 1970s. At the present time, 19 wildlife species within the state of Oklahoma are listed as federally threatened or endangered. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the federal agency that administers the Endangered Species Act. 

The State of Oklahoma has an endangered species statute that gives the state the authority to list a wildlife species as threatened or endangered within the state of Oklahoma although it might not be classified as threatened or endangered federally through the Endangered Species Act. At the present time, four (4) wildlife species are listed as state-threatened or state-endangered in Oklahoma.
 

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Oklahoma Species List: Federally-listed, Proposed, Candidate, and Species Under Review

Current Federally-listed Species

Wildlife
LE=Listed Endangered, LT=Listed Threatened
Common NameScientific Name Current Status
Whooping Crane Grus americana LE
Piping Plover Charadrius melodus LT
Black-capped Vireo Vireo atricapilla LE
Lesser Prairie-chicken Tympanuchus pallidicinctus LT
Red-cockaded Woodpecker Picoides borealis LE
Interior Least Tern Sterna antillarum LE
Rufa Red Knot Calidris canutus rufa LT
American Burying Beetle Nicrophorus americanus LE
Neosho Mucket Lampsilis rafinesqueana LE
RabbitsfootQuadrula cylindrica cylindrica LT
Scaleshell Mussel Leptodea leptodon LE
Winged Mapleleaf Quadrula fragosa LE
Ouachita Rock Pocketbook Arkansia wheeleri LE
Arkansas River Shiner Notropis girardi LT
Neosho Madtom Noturus placidus LT
Ozark Cavefish Amblyopsis rosae LT
Leopard Darter Percina pantherina LT
Indiana Bat Mytosi sodalis LE
Ozark Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii ingens LE
Gray Bat Myotis grisescens LE
Northern Long-Eared Bat Myotis septentrionalis LT
Plants
Common Name Scientific Name Current Status
Eastern Prairie-fringed Orchid Platanthera leucophaea LT
Western Prairie-fringed Orchid Platanthera praeclara LT
Harperella* Ptillium nodosum LE

Proposed and Candidate Species
C=Candidate, PE=Proposed Endangered, PT=Proposed Threatened
Common Name Scientific Name Current Status Notes
Sprague's Pipit Anthus spragueii C Listing Priority Number: 8
Rattlesnake Master-borer Moth Papaipema eryngii C Listing Priority Number: 8
Arkansas Darter Etheostoma cragini C Listing Priority Number: 11

Current State-listed Species

Wildlife
LE=Listed Endangered, LT=Listed Threatened
Common NameScientific Name Current Status
Longnose Darter Percina nasuta LE
Blackside Darter Percina maculata LT
Oklahoma Cave Crayfish Cambarus tartarus LE

 

Additional Resources for Threatened and Endangered Wildlife Species