INDIANA WILD ANIMALS LISTS (not endangered or class 1-3)

EXOTIC MAMMALS BANNED FOR TAKE:

• Bradypodidae (tree sloth)
  
• Camelidae (camel and llama)
  
• Canidae (jackal, wild dog, and other exotic foxes)
  
• Cebidae (marmoset)
  
• Cercopithecidae (baboon and monkey)
  
• Dasypodidae (armadillo)
  
• Elephantidae (elephant)
  
• Equidae (wild horse and zebra), except for domestic horses
  
• Felidae (mountain lion, lynx, tiger, and other exotic cats)
  
• Giraffidae (giraffe and okapi)
  
• Hippopotamidae (hippopotamus)
  
• Hyaenidae (hyaena)
  
• Macropodidae (kangaroo and wallaby)
  
• Myrmecophagidae (anteater)
  
• Orycteropodidae (aardvark)
  
• Pongidae (chimpanzee, bonobo, and gorilla)
  
• Procaviidae (hyrax)
  
• Protelidae (aardwolf)
  
• Rhinocerotidae (rhinoceros)
  
• Tapiridae (tapir)
  
• Tragulidae (chevrotain)
  
• Ursidae (bear), except for black bears
  
• A hybrid or genetically altered mammal
  

GAME BIRDS (2019):

• Pheasant
  
• Quail
  
• Grouse
  
• Wild turkey
  
• Mourning dove
  

WATERFOWL (2019):

• wild goose
  
• brant
  
• swan
  
• wild duck
  

Other NATIVE REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS:

Amphibians:

• Common mudpuppy
  
• Streamside salamander
  
• Jefferson salamander
  
• Blue-spotted salamander
  
• Spotted salamander
  
• Marbled salamander
  
• Small-mouthed salamander
  
• Eastern tiger salamander
  
• Eastern newt
  
• Northern dusky salamander
  
• Southern two-lined salamander
  
• Long-tailed salamander
  
• Cave salamander
  
• Four-toed salamander
  
• Northern red-backed salamander
  
• Northern zigzag salamander
  
• Northern ravine salamander
  
• Northern slimy salamander
  
• Lesser siren
  
• Eastern spadefoot toad
  
• American toad
  
• Fowler's toad
  
• Northern cricket frog
  
• Cope's gray treefrog
  
• Green treefrog
  
• Gray treefrog
  
• Spring peeper
  
• Boreal chorus frog
  
• Western chorus frog
  
• American bullfrog
  
• Green frog
  
• Northern leopard frog
  
• Pickerel frog
  
• Southern leopard frog
  
• Wood frog
  

Reptiles:

• Eastern snapping turtle
  
• Smooth softshell turtle
  
• Spiny softshell turtle
  
• Eastern musk turtle
  
• Midland painted turtle
  
• Western painted turtle
  
• Northern map turtle
  
• False map turtle
  
• Ouachita map turtle
  
• Eastern box turtle
  
• Red-eared slider
  
• Eastern fence lizard
  
• Slender glass lizard
  
• Six-lined racerunner
  
• Common five-lined skink
  
• Broadhead skink
  
• Little brown skink
  
• Midwestern wormsnake
  
• Blue racer
  
• Northern ring-necked snake
  
• Gray ratsnake
  
• Eastern foxsnake
  
• Red-bellied mud snake
  
• Eastern hog-nosed snake
  
• Prairie kingsnake
  
• Eastern black kingsnake
  
• Eastern milksnake
  
• Midland watersnake
  
• Diamond-backed watersnake
  
• Northern watersnake
  
• Rough greensnake
  
• Bullsnake
  
• Queensnake
  
• Dekay's brownsnake
  
• Red-bellied snake
  
• Western ribbonsnake
  
• Plains gartersnake
  
• Common ribbonsnake
  
• Eastern gartersnake
  
• Western smooth earthsnake
  
• Copperhead
  
• Southern black racer
  
• Northern ribbonsnake
  
• Chicago gartnersnake
  

 

EXOTIC FISH:

• exotic catfish
  
• bighead carp
  
• black carp
  
• silver carp
  
• white perch
  
• Snakehead (Channa and Parachanna)
  
• rudd
  
• ruffe
  
• tubenose goby
  
• round goby
  
• stone moroko
  
• wels catfish
  
• zander
  
• hybrid or genetically altered
  

SPORT FISH:

• Largemouth bass
  
• Smallmouth bass
  
• Spotted bass
  
• Rock bass
  
• White crappie
  
• Black crappie
  
• Walleye
  
• Sauger
  
• Saugeye
  
• Striped bass
  
• White bass
  
• Hybrid striped bass
  
• Yellow bass
  
• Muskellunge
  
• Tiger muskellunge
  
• Northern pike
  
• Chain pickerel
  
• Trout or salmon (lake trout, coho salmon, chinook salmon, sockeye salmon, brown trout, steelhead, brook trout, Atlantic salmon, pink salmon)
  

OTHER FISH COVERED UNDER FISHING:

• American eel
  
• Asian carp (bighead, black, grass, silver)
  
• Atlantic salmon
  
• Black bullhead
  
• Blue catfish
  
• Bluegill
  
• Bluntnose minnow
  
• Bowfin
  
• Brook trout
  
• Brown bullhead
  
• Brown trout
  
• Buffalo
  
• Bullhead (black, brown, yellow)
  
• Burbot
  
• Carp
  
• Cavefish (Amblyopsidae)
  
• Channel catfish
  
• Chinook salmon
  
• Chub (bloater, kiyi)
  
• Coho salmon
  
• Crappie (black, white)
  
• Fathead minnow
  
• Flathead catfish
  
• Freshwater drum
  
• Gar
  
• Golden shiner
  
• Goldfish
  
• Green sunfish
  
• Hybrid sunfish
  
• Lake herring
  
• Lake trout
  
• Lake whitefish
  
• Minnow (Cyprinidae except exotic and endangered; sucker (Carpiodes, Moxostoma, Hypentelium, Catostomus, Erimyzon), Brook stickleback, Gizzard shad, Threadfin shad, Alewife)
  
• Mosquitofish
  
• Paddlefish
  
• Pink salmon
  
• Rainbow trout
  
• Redear sunfish
  
• Shad (Alosa and Dorosoma)
  
• Shovelnose sturgeon
  
• Smelt
  
• Sockeye salmon
  
• Spotted bass
  
• Steelhead
  
• Sunfish (genus Lepomis except endangered)
  
• Tilapia
  
• Warmouth
  
• White catfish
  
• Yellow bullhead
  
• Yellow perch
  

(Indiana Code 14-22-26; 312 Indiana Admin. Code 9)