9 Animals and a Plant Could Be Contributed To the Federal List of Endangered Types

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says they’re looking at adding 9 animals and a plant to the Endangered Types list. Seven of those animals live in the U.S.

Officials with the USFWS developed the list after completing a 90-day review of petitions for ten various species. Only one wasn’t advised for more review.

Here is the official list:

Betta hendra– A vibrant freshwater fish endemic to the peat overload forests of Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo.

Betta rutilans– A red-colored freshwater fish endemic to the peat swamp forests of West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo.

Hickory Nut Canyon green salamander– An amphibian with a dark body and intense green to yellow spots on its back. It is discovered in the wood and cove forests in Hickory Nut Gorge in western North Carolina and was first described as a special species in 2019.

Pygmy rabbit– A small bunny that lives in a sagebrush environment. It is discovered in the Great Basin and nearby intermountain locations of the western United States, from southeastern Oregon and southern Idaho to southwestern Montana and south-central Wyoming to northwestern Colorado and southwestern Utah, main Nevada, and eastern California.

Railway Valley toad– Among the tiniest of the western toad species with a long head and limbs and dark brown spots. It lives just in the spring-fed wetlands in the Lockes Wildlife Management Location in Nye County, Nevada.

Southern Plains bumble bee– A large black and yellow bumble bee determined by its short hair, brief head and normally yellow coloring in between the head and thorax, in between the wings. The species inhabits open grassy fields, meadows and grasslands of the Midwest, mid-Atlantic states, and the Plains states from Texas to North Dakota, along with to the meadows and pine savannas of Florida and the southeast.

Southwest spring firefly– A terrestrial invertebrate belonging to Arizona and connected with riparian and wetland environments. Primary threats to fireflies include possible habitat damage from change or loss of ground and surface area water flows, animals grazing, mining, results from environment modification, and light pollution.

White-margined penstemon– An unusual seasonal plant limited to the Mojave Desert, with four disjunct populations in southeastern California, southern Nevada, and northwestern Arizona. It is 15-35 cm high, with smooth stems and pink to purple petals.

Yellow-spotted forest salamander– A big, slim salamander with a gray-brown body and two rows of yellow spots along its back. It lives in steep shale and sandstone outcroppings along the Appalachian Plateau in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

Next, each species will get an official status evaluation, determining where the types stands.

The one animal that didn’t make the cut is the eastern hellbender.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says they’re looking at adding nine animals and a plant to the Endangered Species list.

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