Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 3 - DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION
Division 10 - Conservation Commission
Chapter 4 - Wildlife Code: General Provisions
Section 3 CSR 10-4.111 - Endangered Species

Universal Citation: 3 MO Code of State Regs 10-4.111

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 18, September 16, 2024

PURPOSE: This amendment adds to the state endangered species list two (2) crayfish species found in the St. Francis River watershed and a freshwater mussel species found in the Black, Current, Spring, and St. Francis river watersheds that have undergone significant declines and received federal listing as threatened species.

(1) The importation, transportation, sale, purchase, taking, or possession of any endangered species of wildlife, or hides or other parts thereof, or the sale or possession with intent to sell of any article made in whole or in part from the skin, hide, or other parts of any endangered species of wildlife is prohibited; provided, that this rule shall not apply to legally acquired wildlife held under permit or held by a public zoo or museum or to articles manufactured before January 1, 1973. Endangered wildlife taken legally outside Missouri may be imported, transported, or possessed, but may not be sold or purchased without written approval of the director.

(2) The exportation, transportation, or sale of any endangered species of plant or parts thereof, or the sale of or possession with intent to sell any product made in whole or in part from any parts of any endangered species of plant is prohibited.

(3) For the purpose of this rule, endangered species of wildlife and plants shall include the following native species designated as endangered in Missouri:

(A) Mammals: gray bat, Ozark big-eared bat, Indiana bat, northern long-eared bat, black-tailed jackrabbit, spotted skunk;

(B) Birds: northern harrier, interior least tern, Swainson's warbler, snowy egret, king rail, Bachman's sparrow, American bittern, greater prairie-chicken;

(C) Reptiles: western chicken turtle, Blanding's turtle, yellow mud turtle, Mississippi green watersnake, eastern massasauga, prairie massasauga;

(D) Amphibians: eastern hellbender, Ozark hellbender;

(E) Fishes: lake sturgeon, pallid sturgeon, taillight shiner, Neosho madtom, spring cavefish, harlequin darter, goldstripe darter, cypress minnow, central mudminnow, crystal darter, swamp darter, Ozark cavefish, Niangua darter, Sabine shiner, mountain madtom, redfin darter, longnose darter, flathead chub, Topeka shiner, grotto sculpin;

(F) Mussels: Curtis pearlymussel, Higgins' eye, pink mucket, fat pocketbook, ebonyshell, elephant ear, winged mapleleaf, sheepnose, snuffbox, scaleshell, spectaclecase, Neosho mucket, rabbitsfoot, salamander mussel, slippershell mussel, western fanshell;

(G) Crayfish: Big Creek crayfish, Caney Mountain Cave crayfish, coldwater crayfish, Spring River crayfish, St. Francis River crayfish;

(H) Other Invertebrates: American burying beetle, Hine's emerald dragonfly, Tumbling Creek cavesnail; and

(I) Plants: small whorled pogonia, Mead's milkweed, decurrent false aster, Missouri bladderpod, geocarpon, running buffalo clover, pondberry, eastern prairie fringed orchid, western prairie fringed orchid, Virginia sneezeweed.

(4) To provide essential protection to endangered species, the director may establish refuges not to exceed one (1) square mile for not more than sixty (60) days.

*Original authority: 252.240, RSMo 1972, amended 1984.

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