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APPENDIX E. SPECIAL STATUS SPECIES .� <br /> Listing <br /> Scientific Name Status Covered <br /> USFWS/ Potential for Project to by <br /> Common name CDFG/CNPS General Habitat Impact SJMSCP <br /> Perognathus inomatus FSC/–/-- Primarily above 1,000 feet Low. Limited habitat exists in Yes <br /> San Joaquin pocket in dry,open grasslands or project area. Species was <br /> mouse scrub. Will dig burrows for reported less than 2 miles to <br /> cover. the west of the project area in <br /> 1987, however barriers to <br /> dispersal and low elevation <br /> make the Proposed Project <br /> site unlikely to be used by this <br /> species. — <br /> Sylvilagus bachmani FE/CE/-- Native riparian areas with Unlikely. Limited poor quality Yes <br /> riparius large clumps of dense habitat(i.e.,scrub areas <br /> riparian brush rabbit shrubs, low growing vines, along Hospital Creek)exists _ <br /> and some tall shrubs and in the project area. <br /> scrubby trees. Has a very <br /> limited distribution. <br /> Vulpes macrotis mutica FE/CT/-- Occurs in native valley and Medium. Limited habitat Yes — <br /> San Joaquin kit fox foothill grasslands and exists in project area,which is <br /> chenopod scrub in orchards and agricultural <br /> communities of the valley fields. However,this species <br /> floor and surrounding was reported from less than 2 — <br /> foothills. Prefers open level miles to the west of the <br /> areas with loose-textured project area in 1992 and is <br /> soils supporting scattered, highly mobile. <br /> shrubby vegetation and little _ <br /> human disturbance <br /> Invertebrates <br /> Branchinecta conservatio FE/--/-- Lifecycle restricted to large, Unlikely. No vernal pools Yes _ <br /> Conservancy fairy cool-water vernal pools with exist in the project area. <br /> shrimp moderately turbid water. <br /> Branchinecta lynchi FT/--/-- Lifecycle restricted to vernal Unlikely. No vernal pools Yes <br /> Vernal pool fairy pools. exist in the project area. _ <br /> shrimp <br /> Branchinecta FSC/–/– Lifecycle restricted to vernal Unlikely. No vernal pools Yes <br /> mesovallensis pools in the Central Valley. exist in the project area. <br /> Midvalley fairy shrimp — <br /> Desmocerus califomicus FT/--/– Breeds and forages Unlikely. No elderberry Yes <br /> dimorphus exclusively on blue shrubs were observed in the <br /> Valley elderberry - elderberry shrubs project area,and shrubs are <br /> longhorn beetle (Sambucus mexicana) unlikely to become <br /> below 3,000 feet in established within the site. <br /> elevation. <br /> Lepidurus packardi FE/--/-- Lifecycle restricted to vernal Unlikely. No vernal pools Yes — <br /> Vernal pool tadpole pools. exist in the project area. <br /> shrimp <br /> Linderiella occidentalis FSC/–/-- Lifecycle restricted to vernal Unlikely. No vernal pools No <br /> California linderiella pools. exist in the project area. — <br /> fairy shrimp <br /> Lytta moesta FSC/--/-- Central Valley grasslands. Low. Limited and disturbed Yes <br /> Moestan blister beetle grassland habitat would be <br /> removed by the project. –' <br /> Lytta molesta FSC/–/– Inhabits dry vernal pools in Unlikely. No vernal pools Yes <br /> Molestan blister the Central Valley,from exist in the project area. <br /> beetle Contra Costa to Tulare <br /> Counties. — <br /> Environmental Science Associates E-2 RMC Vernalis Project <br /> Administrative Dmft Environmental Impact Repon -- <br /> Preliminary-Subject to Revision <br />