# Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Threatened Species Status for Yellow Lance
> **US Fish and Wildlife Service** · Final rule. · Published 2018-04-03 · Effective 2018-05-03 · 83 FR 14189
## Document
- **Document number:** 2018-06735
- **Category:** endangered-species
- **Sub-agency:** US Fish and Wildlife Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 83 FR 14189
- **CFR reference:** 50 CFR 17
- **Publication date:** 2018-04-03
- **Effective date:** 2018-05-03
- **Interior docket:** Docket No. FWS-R4-ES-2017-0017
## Abstract

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), determine threatened species status under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA or Act), for yellow lance (Elliptio lanceolata), a mussel species from Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. The effect of this regulation will be to add this species to the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/04/03/2018-06735/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-threatened-species-status-for-yellow-lance)
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