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APPENDIX E. SPECIAL-STATUS SPECIES — <br /> Listing — <br /> Status Covered <br /> Scientific Name USFWSI Potential for Project to by <br /> Common Name CDFG/CNPS General Habitat Impact SJMSCP <br /> Oncorhynchus FE/CE/-- Spawns in Sacramento River Low.Only minor effects to No <br /> tshawytscha and tributaries where gravelly water quality are anticipated <br /> Winter-run substrate and shaded riparian as a result of the Proposed <br /> chinook salmon habitat occurs.May be Project. <br /> affected by downstream — <br /> impacts to water quality. <br /> Pogonichthys FSC/CSC/— Prefers backwaters and Low.Only minor effects to Yes <br /> macrolepidotus sloughs of the Delta and lower water quality are anticipated <br /> Sacramento San Joaquin and Sacramento as a result of the Proposed — <br /> splittail rivers.May be affected by Project. <br /> downstream impacts to water <br /> quality. <br /> Spirinchus FSC/CSC/— All major bays and estuaries Low.Only minor effects to Yes — <br /> thaleichthys from San Francisco Bay water quality are anticipated <br /> Longfin smelt northward.May be affected by as a result of the Proposed <br /> downstream impacts to water Project. <br /> quality. _ <br /> Amphibians <br /> Ambystoma FPT/CSC/-- Annual grassland and grassy Unlikely.No suitable habitat yes <br /> californiense understory of valley-foothill occurs in the project area. <br /> California tiger hardwood habitats in central — <br /> salamander and northern California. <br /> Needs underground refuges <br /> and vernal pools or other <br /> seasonal water sources. _ <br /> Rana aurora draytonft FT/CSC/— Breeds in slow moving Unlikely. No suitable habitat Yes <br /> California red- streams,ponds,and marshes occurs in the project area, <br /> legged frog with emergent vegetation. including within Hospital <br /> Creek. — <br /> Rana boyin FSC/CSC/-- Breeds in shaded perennial Unlikely.No suitable habitat Yes <br /> Foothill yellow- stream habitats with rocky, occurs in the project area. <br /> legged frog cobble substrate,usually <br /> below 6,000 feet in elevation. <br /> Absent or infrequent when <br /> introduced predators are <br /> present. <br /> Spea hamrnondii FSC/CSC/— Occurs in open vegetation Low.Little potential habitat Yes _ <br /> western and sandy to gravely soil in exists along Hospital Creek <br /> Spadefoot toad grasslands,savannas,and and other sandy drainages. <br /> open chaparral.Breeds in Uplands are intensively <br /> temporary waters such as farmed. <br /> vernal pools. <br /> Reptiles <br /> Anniella pulchra FSCICSC/— Prefers undisturbed sandy or Unlikely.No suitable habitat No <br /> pulchra loose loamy soils under occurs in the project area. — <br /> Silvery legless sparse vegetation.Requires <br /> lizard soils with high moisture <br /> content. <br /> Clemmys marmorata FSC/CSC/-- Ponds,marshes,rivers, Unlikely.No suitable habitat Yes — <br /> Western pond streams,and irrigation ditches occurs in the project area. <br /> turtle with aquatic vegetation. <br /> Requires basking sites and <br /> suitable upland habitat for <br /> egg-laying.Nest sites most <br /> often characterized as having <br /> gentle slopes(<15%)with <br /> little vegetation or sandy <br /> banks. — <br /> RMC Pacific Vernalis Quarry Mining and Reclamation Project E.1-4 ESA/203015 <br /> Draft EIR May 2006 <br />