California Code of Regulations
Title 14 - Natural Resources
Division 1 - Fish and Game Commission-Department of Fish and Game
Subdivision 3 - General Regulations
Chapter 3 - Miscellaneous
Section 670.5 - Animals of California Declared To Be Endangered or Threatened
Universal Citation: 14 CA Code of Regs 670.5
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
The following species and subspecies are hereby declared to be endangered or threatened, as indicated:
(a) Endangered:
(1) Crustaceans:
(A) California freshwater shrimp
(Syncaris pacifica)
(B) Shasta crayfish (Pacifastacus
fortis)
(2)
Fishes:
(A) Bull trout (Salvelinus
confluentus)
(B) Mohave
tui chub (Gila bicolor mohavensis)
(C) Owens tui chub (Gila bicolor
snyderi)
(D) Bonytail
(Gila elegans)
(E)
Colorado pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius)
(F) Lost River sucker (Deltistes
luxatus)
(G) Modoc sucker
(Catostomus microps)
(H) Shortnose sucker (Chasmistes
brevirostris)
(I)
Razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus)
(J) Desert pupfish (Cyprinodon
macularius)
(K) Owens
pupfish (Cyprinodon radiosus)
(L) Unarmored threespine stickleback
(Gasterosteus aculeatus william soni)
(M) Winter run chinook salmon
(Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
(N) Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus
kisutch) south of Punta Gorda (Humboldt County), California.
(O) Delta smelt (Hypomesus
transpacificus)
(P)
Northern California summer steelhead (Oncorhynchus
mykiss)
(3)
Amphibians:
(A) Santa Cruz long-toed
salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylumcroceum)
(B) Desert slender salamander
(Batrachoseps aridus)
(C) Southern mountain yellow-legged frog
(Rana muscosa)
(D)
Foothill yellow-legged frog (Rana boylii) Southwest/South
Coast clade
(E) Foothill
yellow-legged frog (Rana boylii) West/Central Coast
clade
(F) Foothill yellow-legged
frog (Rana boylii) East/Southern Sierra clade
(4) Reptiles:
(A) Coachella Valley fringe-toed lizard
(Uma inornata)
(B)
Blunt-nosed leopard lizard (Gambelia silus)
(C) San Francisco garter snake
(Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia)
(D) Pacific leatherback sea turtle
(Dermochelys coriacea)
(5) Birds:
(A) California condor (Gymnogyps
californianus)
(B) Bald
eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
(C) California clapper rail (Rallus
longirostris obsoletus)
(D) Light-footed clapper rail (Rallus
longirostris levipes)
(E)
California least tern (Sterna antillarum browni)
(F) Western yellow-billed cuckoo
(Coccyzus americanus occidentalis)
(G) Elf owl (Micrathene
whitneyi)
(H) Great gray
owl (Strix nebulosa)
(I) Least Bell's vireo (Vireo bellii
pusillus)
(J) Inyo
California towhee (Pipilo crissalis eremophilus)
(K) Willow flycatcher (Empidonax
traillii)
(L) Arizona
Bell's vireo (Vireo bellii arizonae)
(M) Gila woodpecker (Melanerpes
uropygialis)
(N) Gilded
northern flicker (Colaptes auratus chrysoides)
(O) Belding's savannah sparrow
(Passerculus sandwichensis beldingii)
(P) Marbled murrelet (Brachyramphus
marmoratus)
(6)
Mammals:
(A) Riparian brush rabbit
(Sylvilagus bachmani riparius)
(B) Morro Bay kangaroo rat (Dipodomys
heermanni morroensis)
(C)
Giant kangaroo rat (Dipodomys ingens)
(D) Tipton kangaroo rat (Dipodomys
nitritoides nitratoides)
(E) Fresno kangaroo rat (Dipodomys
nitritoides exilis)
(F)
Salt-marsh harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys
raviventris)
(G) Amargosa
vole (Microtus californicus scirpensis)
(H) California bighorn sheep (Ovis
canadensis californiana)
(I) Gray wolf (Canis
lupus)
(J) Humboldt marten
(Martes caurina humboldtensis)
(K) San Bernardino kangaroo rat
(Dipodomys merriami parvus)
(b) Threatened:
(1) Gastropods:
(A) Trinity bristle snail (Monadenia
setosa)
(2)
Fishes:
(A) Cottonball Marsh pupfish
(Cyprinodon salinus milleri)
(B) Rough sculpin (Cottus
asperrimus)
(C) Spring-run
Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) of the Sacramento
River drainage.
(D) Coho salmon
(Oncorhynchus kisutch) from Punta Gorda (Humboldt County),
California to the northern border of California.
(E) Longfin smelt (Spirinchus
thaleichthys)
(F) Clear
Lake hitch (Lavinia exilicauda chi)
(G) Upper Klamath-Trinity river spring
Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
(3) Amphibians:
(A) Siskiyou mountain salamander
(Plethodon stormi)
(B) Kern Canyon slender salamander
(Batrachoseps simatus)
(C) Tehachapi slender salamander
(Batrachoseps stebbinsi)
(D) Limestone salamander (Hydromantes
brunus)
(E) Shasta
salamander (Hydromantes shastae)
(F) Black toad (Bufo
exsul)
(G) California
tiger salamander (Ambystoma californiense)
(H) Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog
(Rana sierrae)
(I)
Foothill yellow-legged frog (Rana boylii) Northeast/Northern
Sierra clade
(J) Foothill
yellow-legged frog (Rana boylii) Feather River clade
(4) Reptiles:
(A) Desert tortoise (Gopherus
agassizzii)
(B) Barefoot
banded gecko (Coleonyx switaki)
(C) Southern rubber boa (Charina
bottae umbratica)
(D)
Alameda whipsnake (Masticophis lateralis
euryxanthus)
(E) Giant
garter snake (Thamnophis couchi gigas)
(5) Birds:
(A) Swainson's hawk (Buteo
swainsoni)
(B) California
black rail (Laterallus jamaicensis coturniculus)
(C) Yuma clapper rail (Rallus
longirostris yumanensis)
(D) Greater sandhill crane (Grus
canadensis tabida)
(E)
Bank swallow (Riparia riparia)
(F) Xantus's murrelet
(Synthliboramphus hypoleucus)
(G) Northern spotted owl (Strix
occidentalis caurina)
(H)
Tricolored blackbird (Agelaius tricolor)
(6) Mammals:
(A) Mohave ground squirrel
(Spermohilus mohavensis)
(B) San Joaquin antelope squirrel
(Ammospermophilus nelsoni)
(C) Stephens' kangaroo rat (Dipodomys
stephensi)
(D) Sierra
Nevada red fox (Vulpes vulpes necator)
(E) San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes
macrotis mutica)
(F)
Island fox (Urocyon littoralis)
(G) Wolverine (Gulo
gulo)
(H) Guadalupe fur
seal (Arctocephalus townsendi)
(I) Peninsular bighorn sheep (Ovis
canadensis cremnobates)
(J) Fisher (Pekania
pennanti) Southern Sierra Nevada Evolutionarily Significant
Unit
Note: Authority cited: Sections 2070 and 2075.5, Fish and Game Code. Reference: Sections 1755, 2055, 2062, 2067, 2070, 2072.7, 2074.6, 2075.5, 2077, 2080, 2081 and 2835, Fish and Game Code.
Note: Authority cited: Sections 2070 and 2075.5, Fish and Game Code. Reference: Sections 1755, 2055, 2062, 2067, 2070, 2072.7, 2074.6, 2075.5, 2077, 2080, 2081 and 2835, Fish and Game Code.
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