Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians and Fish

The Animal working groups addressed terrestrial and freshwater avian, mammal, fish, herptiles and macro-invertebrate targets.

The portfolio identifies the following viable occurrences and their surrounding survey site for primary non-avian vertebrate targets:

13 hibernacula for bats

25 locations for 6 small mammal species, including Maritime Shrew and Northern Bog Lemming

two metapopulations including 58 records for Blanding's Turtle and 3 for Ribbon Snake, all in the Maritimes

13 lakes for target fish species

7 rivers for salmon, and 5 for Shortnose Sturgeon (this does not include US data)

Caribou was included as a primary target even though it is now so restricted in range that it can no longer be considered wide ranging. The Canada lynx was chosen as a primary target because it is a wide-ranging and large area requiring species that was once reasonably common but is now either extirpated from or rare and vulnerable in most of the ecoregion. Occurrences were not used to develop a plan for the Canada lynx. Instead, we worked with partners to develop a source-sink model.

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About the Animal working groups
About planning methods and results in the Species chapter of the NAP Report (PDF)
About Vertebrates in the Species Target Maps summary (PDF)

Within the Species Target Maps:
Mammals:

• Lynx
• Rock Vole
• Penobscot meadow vole
• Eastern small-footed myotis
• Indiana or Social myotis
• Woodland caribou
• Long-tailed or Rock shrew
• Gaspe shrew
• Maritime shrew
• Northern bog lemming

Reptiles and Amphibians

• Blanding's turtle
• Eastern ribbon snake

Fishes

• Shortnose sturgeon
• Atlantic sturgeon
• Atlantic whitefish
• Lake Utopia dwarf smelt
• Atlantic salmon (anadromous)
• Landlocked arctic charr (Blue backed trout)

Table of numerical and distribution goals for species (XLS)
Table of all primary target species occurrences and their attributes (XLS)