The Center for Biological Diversity and the US Fish and Wildlife Service have come to an historic agreement to make findings and provide Endangered Species Act protections as determined for 757 imperiled species by 2018. The list includes several river-dependent native plants and animals, including: roundtail chub, headwater chub, zuni bluehead sucker, Mexican garter snake, Page springsnail, relict leopard frog, Sonoyta mud turtle, Stephan’s riffle beetle, and the western yellow-billed cuckoo. The full list of Arizona species included in the agreement is below the bird.
yellow-billed cuckoo via wikipedia
Arizona
| Acuna cactus |
| Arizona treefrog, Huachuca Canelo population |
| Bartram stonecrop |
| Beardless chinch weed |
| Cactus ferruginous pygmy owl |
| Fickeisen plains |
| Gierisch mallow |
| Greater sage grouse |
| Gunnison sage grouse |
| Gunnison’s prairie dog |
| Headwater chub |
| Huachuca springsnail |
| Lemmon’s fleabane |
| Mexican garter snake |
| Mexican gray wolf |
| New Mexico meadow jumping mouse |
| Northern leopard frog |
| Page springsnail |
| Relict leopard frog |
| Rosemont talussnail |
| Roundtail chub in the lower Colorado River Basin |
| San Bernadino springsnail |
| Sonoran desert tortoise |
| Sonoran talussnail |
| Sonoyta mud turtle |
| Sprague’s pipit |
| Stephan’s riffle beetle |
| Three Forks springsnail |
| Tucson shovel-nosed snake |
| Western yellow-billed cuckoo |
| Zuni bluehead sucker |