1. (a) Under the authority of RSA 212-A:6, IV(a), the following species, listed by common and scientific names in Table 1000.2 shall be considered threatened throughout its entire range within the state:

   Table 1000.2 Threatened Species

   Common Name

   Scientific Name

   Eastern pond mussel

   Ligumia nasuta

   Pine pinion moth

   Lithophane lepida lepida

   Ringed boghaunter

   Williamsonia lintneri

   White Mountain arctic

   Oeneis melissa semidea

   Hessel's hairstreak

   Callophrys hesseli

   Bridle shiner

   Notropis bifrenatus

   Atlantic sturgeon

   Acipenser oxyrinchus

   Round whitefish

   Prosopium cylindraceum

   Fowler's toad

   Anaxyrus fowleri

   Spotted turtle

   Clemmys guttata

   Black racer

   Coluber constrictor

   Pied-billed grebe

   Podilymbus podiceps

   Common loon

   Gavia immer

   Peregrine falcon

   Falco peregrinus

   Common tern

   Sterna hirundo

   Red knot

   Calidris canutus

   Cliff swallow

   Petrochelidon pyrrhonota

   Purple martin

   Progne subis

   Cerulean warbler

   Setophaga cerulea

   Eastern meadowlark

   Sturnella magna

   Grasshopper Sparrow

   Ammodramus savannarum

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