The classification of Fully Protected was the State's initial effort in the 1960's to identify and provide additional protection to those animals that were rare or faced possible extinction. Lists were created for fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Please note that most fully protected species have also been listed as threatened or endangered species under the more recent California Endangered Species Act.
Fully Protected species may not be taken or possessed at any time and no licenses or permits may be issued for their take except for collecting these species for necessary scientific research, relocation of the bird species for the protection of livestock, or if they are a covered species whose conservation and management is provided for in a Natural Community Conservation Plan (NCCP).
The following common and scientific names are those given in the Fish and Game Code Sections 3511, 4700, 5050 and 5515. However, some of these names are no longer consistent with current scientific nomenclature.
Fishes
| Common Name
|
Scientific Name
|
Colorado pikeminnow
(formerly Colorado
River squawfish)
|
Ptychocheilus lucius
|
Mohave tui chub
(formerly Mohave chub)
|
Siphateles bicolor mohavenisis
(formerly Gila
mohavensis
)
|
| Lost River sucker
|
Deltistes luxatus and Catostomus luxatus
|
| Modoc sucker
|
Catostomus microps
|
| shortnose sucker
|
Chasmistes brevirostris
|
razorback sucker
(formerly humpback sucker)
|
Xyrauchen texanus
|
Owens pupfish
(formerly owens river pupfish)
|
Cyprinodon radiosus
|
| unarmored threespine stickleback
|
Gasterosteus aculeatus williamsoni
|
| rough sculpin
|
Cottus asperrimus
|
Amphibians
| Common Name
|
Scientific Name
|
| Santa Cruz long-toed salamander
|
Ambystoma macrodactylum croceum
|
| limestone salamander
|
Hydromantes brunus
|
| black toad
|
Bufo boreas exsul
|
Reptiles
| Common Name
|
Scientific Name
|
| blunt-nosed leopard lizard
|
Gambelia sila
|
| San Francisco garter snake
|
Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia
|
Birds
| Common Name
|
Scientific Name
|
| California black rail
|
Laterallus jamaicensis coturniculus
|
| California clapper rail
|
Rallus longirostris obsoletus
|
| California condor
|
Gymnogyps califonianus
|
| California least tern
|
Sterna albifrons browni
|
| golden eagle
|
Aquila chrysaetos
|
| greater sandhill crane
|
Grus candadensis tabida
|
| light-footed clapper rail
|
Rallus longirostris levipes
|
| southern bald eagle
|
Haliaeetus leucocephalus leucocephalus
|
| trumpeter swan
|
Cygnus buccinator
|
| white-tailed kite
|
Elanus leucurus
|
| Yuma clapper rail
|
Rallus longirostris yumanensis
|
Mammals
| Common Name
|
Scientific Name
|
| Morro Bay kangaroo rat
|
Dipodomys heermanni morroensis
|
| bighorn sheep
|
Ovis canadensis - except Nelson bighorn sheep
(ssp. Ovis canadensis nelsoni) in the area described
in subdivision (b) of Section 4902 (Fish and Game Code)
|
| northern elephant seal
|
Mirounga angustirostris
|
| Guadalupe fur seal
|
Arctocephalus townsendi
|
| ringtail |
Genus Bassariscus
|
| Pacific right whale
|
Eubalanea sieboldi
|
| salt-marsh harvest mouse
|
Reithrodontomys raviventris
|
| southern sea otter
|
Enhydra lutris nereis
|
| wolverine
|
Gulo luscus
|