Vertebrates
Mammals
Bat Species
Mountain Beaver
Pacific Water Shrew
Townsend’s Mole
Birds
Barn Owl
Barn Swallow
Great Blue Heron, fannini subspecies
Marbled Murrelet
American Goshawk, laingi subspecies
Short-eared Owl
Western Screech-Owl, kennicottii subspecies
Amphibians
Coastal Giant Salamander
Coastal Tailed Frog
Northern Red-legged Frog
Oregon Spotted Frog
Western Toad
Reptiles
Common Sharp-tailed Snake
Painted Turtle, Pacific Coast Population
Fish
Nooksack Dace
Salish Sucker
Invertebrates
Insects
Dun Skipper
Grappletail
Johnson’s Hairstreak
Molluscs
Olympia Oyster
Oregon Forestsnail
Plants
Non-Vascular
Poor pocket moss
Vascular
Phantom orchid
Streambank lupine
Tall bugbane
Vancouver Island beggarticks
Ecological Communities
Arbutus
Coastal Douglas-fir
Coastal Sand Ecosystems
Coastal Western Hemlock

This member of the minnow family (Cyprinidae) is considered a unique form of the widespread and common Longnose Dace (Rhinichthys cataractae). that developed through geographic isolation Washington State’s Chehalis River Valley for over 1 million years during the Pleistocene glaciations. As glaciers retreated, it colonized, other watersheds along with Salis Sucker. It is a small fish (to 12 cm) limited to western Washington State and southwestern BC. In BC, it is found in three tributaries of the Nooksack River, and the Brunette River, in lower Fraser River Valley. It is a habitat specialist dependent on stream riffles with loose, rocky substrates.

  • Nooksack Dace
  • Riffle habitat

This is a species at risk. To find its current at-risk designation and listing info, visit the BC Species and Ecosystems Explorer. For direction on finding additional species recovery information, visit the Species and Ecological Communities Profiles Overview webpage.

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