Species Point of Contact in Alabama | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

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Species Point of Contact in Alabama

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Alabama

The staff of the Alabama Ecological Services office are national species leads for 50 threatened and endangered species. The table below lists the species the staff are the lead for and additional species they cover in the state. If you have questions for any of our lead biologists, feel free to contact them.

Staff	National Species Lead	Office Species Lead/POC
Jennifer Grunewald	Crustaceans - Alabama Cave Shrimp, Slenderclaw Crayfish Fish - Alabama Cavefish, Rush Darter, Trispot Darter, Vermillion Darter, Watercress Darter, Slackwater Darter	Fish - Spotfin Chub
Evan Collins	Reptiles & Amphibians - Black Warrior Waterdog, Flattened Musk Turtle Fish - Spring Pygmy Sunfish Mussels - Canoe Creek Clubshell, Finelined Pocketbook, Orange-nacre Mucket, Southern Clubshell	Fish - Popeye Shiner, Frecklebelly Madtom, Boulder Darter, Popeye Shiner Reptiles & Amphibians - Alabama Redbelly Turtle, Alligator Snapping Turtle, Black Pinesnake, Dusky Gopher Frog, Eastern Indigo Snake, Eastern hellbender
Erin Sasser	Mussels - Alabama Lampmussel, Pale Lilliput Snails - Armored Snail, Rough Hornsnail, Slender Campeloma, Tulotoma Snail	Birds - Red knot Mussels - Southern elktoe, Longsolid, rabbitsfoot
Brittany Barker-Jones	Mussels - Alabama Moccasinshell, Coosa Moccasinshell, Georgia Pigtoe, Heavy Pigtoe, Ovate Clubshell, Southern Pigtoe, Triangular Kidneyshell	Mussels -Coosa Creekshell, Rayed Creekshell , Rayed Bean, Sheepnose, Snuffbox, Spectaclecase
Scott Lamont	Fish - Alabama Sturgeon, Cahaba Shiner, Pygmy Sculpin Mussels - Alabama Pearlshell, White Wartyback Snails - Cylindrical Lioplax, Flat Pebblesnail, Interrupted Rocksnail, Lacy Elimia, Oblong Rocksnail, Painted Rocksnail, Plicate Rocksnail, Round Rocksnail
Katie Loesser	Mussel - Alabama Hickorynut, Dark Pigtoe, Inflated Heelspliter	Fish - Alabama Shad, Blue Shiner, Gulf Sturgeon
Jenna King -Listing Biologist	Fish - Coal Darter, Bankhead Darter, Tuscumbia Darter Mussel - Alabama Hickorynut, Alabama Rainbow Plant - Apalachicola Wild Indigo, Eared Coneflower, Harper's Heartleaf Reptile - Alabama Map Turtle, Black-knobbed Map Turtle, Escambia Map Turtle Snail - Manitou Cavesnail	Amphibian - Tennessee Cave Salamander Mammals - West Indian Manatee
Shannon Holbrook	-	Bats - Indiana, Gray, Northern Long-Eared, Tricolored Bat Birds - Piping plover, Red-cockaded Woodpecker Sea Turtles - Green, Hawksbill, Kemp's ridley, Leatherback, Loggerhead
Bill Lynn	Mammals - Alabama Beach Mouse	Mammals - Perdido Key Beach Mouse Reptiles - Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake
Jason Ross	Reptiles & Amphibians - Red Hills Salamander	Terrestrial - Mitchell's satyr butterfly
Erin Lentz	Ferns & Allies - Alabama streak-sorus fern Plants - Fleshy-fruit gladecress, Kral's water plantain, Lyrate bladderpod, Tennessee yellow-eyed grass	Plants - All other plants