Research and Monitoring

      

Species Lists
Special Status Species: River Mouths, Brackish and Estuarine Wetlands

Status Codes:

Endangered: Listed as Endangered by the State of California or the Federal Government

Threatened: Listed as Threatened by the State of California or the Federal Government

Depleted: Depleted according the Marine Mammal Protection Act (special status)

Category 1: Candidate for listing by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (sufficient biological information available to support a proposal to list taxa as Endangered or Threatened)

Category 2: Candidate for listing by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (existing information indicates taxa may warrant listing, butsubstantial biological information necessary to support a proposed rule is lacking)

CSC: California Department of Fish and Game "Species of Special Concern"

SCT: California Candidate for listing as Threatened

FSS: Federal Bureau of Land Management or U.S. Forest Service Sensitive Species

SPL: Species proposed for listing

* Taxa listed with an asterisk fall into one or more of the following categories:

1. Taxa that are biologically rare, very restricted in distribution, declining throughout their range, or at a critical stage in their life cycle when residing in California.

2. Populations(s) in California that may be peripheral to the major portion of a taxon's range, but which are threatened with extirpation within California.

3. Taxa closely associated with a habitat that is declining in California (e.g., wetlands, riparian, old growth forest).

+ The coast wide status of all Chinook runs is currently being reviewed for the California, Oregon and Washington coasts. Within the MBNMS boundaries the Spring, late Fall and San Joaquin Fall runs are considered to have depressed populations.

CNPS: California Native Plant Society CNPS Codes:
1B: Rare, threatened or endangered in California and elsewhere
4: Limited distribution, which may lead to species becoming rare, threatened or endangered

		Status Codes			Occurrence in County x (yes); - (no); blank(information not available)
Common Name	Scientific Name Genus species	State Status	Federal Status	Other	Marin County	San Mateo County	Santa Cruz County	Monterey County	San Luis Obispo County
Plants
California sea blite	Suaeda californica	None	Endangered	CNPS 1B					x
Salt marsh bird's-beak	Cordylanthus maritimus ssp maritimus	Endangered	Endangered	CNPS 1B					x
Soft bird's-beak	Cordylanthus mollis ssp mollis?	Rare	Category 1	CNPS 1B	x
Mason's lilaeopsis	Lilaeopsis masonii	Rare	Category 2	CNPS 1B	x
Fishes
Tidewater goby	Eucyclogobius newberryi	CSC	Endangered		x	x	x	x	x
Rough sculpin	Cottus asperrimus	Threatened	Category 2
Mammals
Salt-marsh harvest mouse	Reithrodontomys raviventris	Endangered	Endangered			x
Herpetia
San Francisco garter snake	Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia	Endangered	Endangered			x	x
Birds
California clapper rail	Rallus longirostris obsoletus	Endangered	Endangered		x	x	-	x	x
Western snowy plover	Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus (breeding)	CSC	Threatened		x	x	x	x	x
California black rail	Laterallus jamaicensis coturniculus	Threatened	Category 2		x	x	-	-	x
California least tern	Sterna antillarum browni	Endangered	None		-	x	x?	-	x
Marbled murrelet	Brachyramphus marmoratus (nesting)	Endangered	Threatened				x
Merlin	Falco columbarius	CSC	None				x
American peregrine falcon	Falco peregrinus anatum	Endangered	Endangered				x
Loggerhead shrike	Lanius ludovicianus	CSC	Category 2				x
Tricolored blackbird	Agelaius tricolor	CSC	Category 2				x
Saltmarsh common yellowthroat	Geothlypis trichas sinuosa	CSC	Category 2				x
Belding's savannah sparrow	Passerculus sandwichensis beldingi	Endangered	Category 2				x
Bald eagle	Haliaeetus leucocephalus	Endangered	Endangered				x
Short-eared owl	Asio flammeus (nesting)	CSC	None				x
Great blue heron	Ardea herodias (rookery)	*	None					x
Great egret	Casmerodius albus (rookery)	*	None					x
Birds listed dues to breeding concerns outside MBNMS
American white pelican	Pelecanus erythrorhynchos (nesting colony)	CSC	None					x
White-faced ibis	Plegadis chihi (rookery)	CSC	Category 2					x
Long-billed curlew	Numenius americanus (breeding)	CSC	None					x
Snowy egret	Egretta thula (rookery)	*	None					x

Other Codes:

FR: Farallone islands
AN: Ano Nuevo island
ST: Seasonal Transient
SR: Seasonal Resident
YR: Year Round

For more information on the distribution and status of these and other species contact the California Department of Fish and Game for their Natural Diversity Data Base