EN15 - Number of IUCN Red List species and national conservation list species with habitats in areas affected by operations, by level of extinction risk

[Many “common” species, such as mallard, red-winged blackbird, wood duck, etc., are on the IUCN Red List as “threatened” species.  For now, we have listed only those that are on the U.S. Threatened and Endangered list.]

AEP facilities are located within the ranges of the following U.S. federally threatened and endangered species:

Mammals

• Indiana Bat
• Louisiana Black Bear (Ursus americanus luteolus)
• Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)
• Jaguarundi (Herpailurus yaguarondi)
• Jaguar (Panthera onca)

Birds

• Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) (removed from T&E list in 2007, but is still protected by two federal acts and its range and population densities are increasing.)
• Interior least tern (Sterna antillarum athalassos)
• Red-cockaded woodpecker (Piocodes borealis)
• Piping plover (Charadrius melodus)
• Black-capped vireo (Vireo atricapilla)
• Golden-cheeked warbler (Dendroica chrysoparia)
• Whooping crane (Grus Americana)
• Attwater’s prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri)
• Brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)
• Northern aplomado falcon (Falco femoralis septentrionalis)
• Mexican spotted owl (Strix occidentalis lucida)
• Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis)
• Southwestern willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii extimus)
• Bachman’s warbler (Vermivora bachmanii)
• Kirtland’s warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii)
• Roseate tern (Sterna dougallii dougallii)

Freshwater Mussels

• Green floater mussel (Lasmigona subviridis)
• Ohio pigtoe (Pleurobema cordatum)
• Rough pigtoe (Pleurobema plenum)
• Sharp-ridge pocketbook (Lampsilis ovata)
• Butterfly (Ellipsaria lineolata)
• Monkey-face (Quadrula intermedia)
• Rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrical)
• Fanshell (Cyprogenia stegaria)
• Purple catspaw (Epioblasma o. obliquata)
• Northern Riffleshell (Epioblasma t. torulosa)
• Cracking pearlymussel (Hemistena lata)
• Pink mucket (Lampsilis abrupta)
• Ring pink (Obovaria retusa)
• White wartyback (Plethobasus cicatricosus)
• Orange foot pimpleback (Plethobasus striatus)
• Ouachita Rock Pocketbook (Arkansia wheeleri)

Fish

• Arkansas river shiner (Notropis girardi)
• Roanoke logperch (Percina rex)

Invertebrates

• American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus)
• Fringed mountain snail (Polygriscus virginianus)

Flowers

• Western prairie fringed orchid (Platanthera praeclara)

AEP has also created a list of federally threatened and endangered species that have ranges within the AEP service territory in the states of Virginia and West Virginia. This list is based on a county by county analysis of potential threatened and endangered species habitat in the AEP territory of those states.

West Virginia

Mammals

• Indiana Bat
• Louisiana Black Bear (Ursus americanus luteolus)
• Eastern Cougar (Concolor couguar)
• West Virginia northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus fuscus)

Birds

• Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

Freshwater Mussels

• Tubercled-blossom pearlymussel (Epioblasma torulosa torulosa)
• Pink mucket pearlymussel (Lampsilis abrupta)
• James spinymussel (Pleurobema collina)
• Fanshell (Cyprogenia stegaria)
• Clubshell (Pleurobema clava)
• Northern riffleshell (Epioblasma torulosa rangiana)

Plants

• Shale barren rock cress (Arabis serotina)
• Running buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum)
• Virginia spiraea (Spiraea virginiana)
• Small whorled pogonia (Isotria medeoloides)

Virginia

Mammals

• Indiana bat (Myotis sodalist)
• Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus)
• Gray bat (Myotis grisescens)
• Carolina northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus coloratus)

Birds

• Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)

Fish

• Roanoke logperch (Percina rex)
• Spotfin chub (Erimonax monachus)
• Slender chub (Erimystax cahni)
• Duskytail darter (Etheostoma percnurum)
• Yellowfin madtom (Noturus flavipinnis)

Insects

• Madison Cave isopod (Antrolana lira)
• Virginia fringed mountain snail (Polygyriscus virginianus)

Invertebrates

• Madison Cave isopod (Antrolana lira)
• Virginia fringed mountain snail (Polygyriscus virginianus)

Freshwater Mussels

• James spinymussel (Pleurobema collina)
• Dwarf wedgemussel (Alasmidonta heterodon)
• Spectaclecase (Cumberlandia monodonta)
• Fanshell (Cyprogenia stegaria)
• Dromedary pearlymussel (Dromus dromas)
• Cumberlandian combshell (Epioblasma brevidens)
• Oyster mussel (Epioblasma capsaeformis)
• Green blossom pearlymussel (Epioblasma torulosa gubernaculums)
• Shiny pigtoe (Fusconaia cor)
• Fine-rayed pigtoe (Fusconaia cuneolus)
• Cracking pearlymussel (Hemistena lata)
• Pink mucket pearlymussel (Lampsilis abrupta)
• Birdwing pearlymussel (Lemiox rimosus)
• Slabside pearlymussel (Lexingtonia dolabelloides)
• Little-wing pearlymussel (Pegias fibula)
• Sheepnose (Plethobasus cyphyus)
• Rough pigtoe (Pleurobema plenum)
• Fluted kidneyshell (Ptychobranchus subtentum)
• Rough rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica strigillata)
• Cumberland monkeyface pearlymussel (Quadrula intermedia)
• Appalachian monkeyface pearlymussel (Quadrula sparsa)
• Tan riffleshell (Epioblasma florentina walkeri)
• Rayed bean (Villosa fabalis)
• Purple bean (Villosa perpurpurea)
• Cumberland bean (Villosa trabalis)

Plants

• Smooth coneflower (Echinacea laevigata)
• Small whorled pogonia (Isotria medeoloides)
• Northeastern bulrush (Scirpus ancistrochaetus)
• Virginia spiraea (Spiraea virginiana)
• Schweinitz’s sunflower (Helianthus schweinitzii)
• Peter's Mountain mallow (Iliamna corei)
• Small-anthered bittercress (Cardamine micranthera)
• Virginia sneezeweed (Helenium virginicum)
• Swamp pink (Helonias bullata)
• Shale barren rock cress (Arabis serotina)
• Virginia round-leaf birch (Betula uber)

Reptile

• Bog turtle (Clemmys muhlenbergii)