WildEarth Guardians has submitted numerous scientific petitions to U.S. federal agencies seeking protection for imperiled plants and animals under the Endangered Species Act, including two petitions to list 681 species in the Rocky Mountains and the American Southwest. See index of petitions below.

206 Mountain-Prairie Species Petition

475 Southwest Species Petition

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

B

Bats: Armenian myotis, Aru flying fox, Bonin flying fox, Christmas Island pipistrelle, Cuban greater funnel-eared bat, greater monkey-faced bat, Hill’s horseshoe bat, Jamaican greater funnel-eared bat, montane monkey-faced bat, Lamotte’s roundleaf bat, Lord Howe long-eared bat, Negros naked-backed fruit bat, New Caledonia long-eared bat, New Zealand greater short-tailed bat, Paraguana mustached bat

Beetle, narrow-foot diving (Mountain-Prairie Species Petition) 

Beetle, Scott’s riffle (Mountain-Prairie Species Petition)

Beetles, Sagebrush Sea: Crescent Dunes aegialian scarab, Crescent Dunes serican scarab, Hardy's aegialian scarab, Sand Mountain serican scarab, Giuliani's dune scarab, large aegialian scarab

Butterflies, Great Basin: Baking Powder Flat blue butterfly, bleached sandhill skipper, Carson Valley silverspot, Carson Valley wood nymph, Mattoni’s blue butterfly, Mono Basin skipper, Railroad Valley skipper (fulvapalla), Railroad Valley skipper (reeseorum), Steptoe Valley crescentspot, White River Valley skipper

Butterfly, Sacramento Mountains checkerspot

Butterflies, Spring Mountains dark blue

C

Caddisfly, Platte River (Mountain-Prairie Species Petition) 

Chipmunk, Peñasco least

Chub, northern leatherside (Mountain-Prairie Species Petition)

Chub, prairie (Mountain-Prairie Species Petition)

Conch, queen

Coqui, Virgin Islands

Cryptantha, Pipe Springs (Mountain-Prairie Species Petition) 

D

E

 Electric ray, Caribbean

F

Falcon, Aplomado

Ferret, black-footed

Forestfly, Mist (Mountain-Prairie Species Petition)

Fritillary, unsilvered 

G

Gilia, Aztec

Grass, pale blue-eyed (Mountain-Prairie Species Petition)

Grouper, Warsaw

Groupers: goliath grouper, Nassau grouper, speckled hind 

Hawk-eagle, Flores  

I

J

Jackrabbit, white-sided

Jaguarundi 

K

Kangaroo rat, Texas

L

Limpet, Banbury Springs

Lizard, spot-tailed earless

M

Mayfly, Gila

Mayten, Caribbean

Monkeyflower, Rocky Mountain

Monster, Gila 

Moth, sand verbena

Mountainsnail, Brian Head (Mountain-Prairie Species Petition)

Mouse, New Mexico meadow jumping

Mussels: southern hickorynut, smooth pimpleback, Texas pimpleback, false spike, Mexican fawnsfoot, Texas fawnsfoot

N

O

Ocelot

P

Parrotfish, bumphead

Petrel, black-capped

Pipefish, Texas

Pipit, Sprague's

Prairie dog, black-tailed

Prairie dog, Gunnison's

Prairie dog, Utah

Q

R

Rattlesnake, desert massasauga

S

Salamander, Jemez Mountains

Sawfish, largetooth

Sawfish: knifetooth sawfish, dwarf sawfish, freshwater sawfish, common sawfish, narrowsnout sawfish, smalltooth sawfish

Scurfpea, Chihuahuan

Sea turtle, Kemp's Ridley

Shark, dusky

Shark, great hammerhead

Shark, great white (northeastern Pacific Distinct Population Segment) 

Shark, porbeagle

Shark, scalloped hammerhead

Shark, whale

Skates: thorny skate, barndoor skate, smooth skate, winter skate

Skipper, bay

Snowfly, Arapahoe

Sperm whale, Gulf of Mexico Distinct Population Segment

Squirrel, Prince of Wales flying

Sturgeon: Acipenser naccarii, Acipenser sturio, Acipenser gueldenstaedtii, Acipenser nudiventris, Acipenser persicus, Acipenser stellatus, Pseudoscaphirhynchus fedtschenkoi, Pseudoscaphirhynchus hermanni, Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni, Acipenser mikadoi, Acipenser schrenckii, Huso dauricus, Acipenser baerii, Acipenser dabryanus, Acipenser sinensis

T

Tarantulas: Poecilotheria fasciata, Poecilotheria formosa, Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica, Poecilotheria metallica, Poecilotheria miranda, Poecilotheria ornata, Poecilotheria pederseni, Poecilotheria rufilata, Poecilotheria smithi, Poecilotheria striata, Poecilotheria subfusca

Thistle, Wright's marsh

Topminnow, saltmarsh

Tortoise, Sonoran Desert

U

Unicorn plant, many-flowered (Southwest Species Petition)

V

Verbena, Yellowstone sand (Mountain-Prairie Species Petition)

W

Wrasse, humphead

Wolf, Mexican gray

X

Y

Z

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