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GLOSSARY
| SPECIES - | ANY INDIGENOUS SPECIES, SUBSPECIES, VARIETY, OR GEOGRAPHICALLY DEFINED POPULATION OF |
| WILD FAUNA AND FLORA. | |
| STATUS - | THE RELATIVE POSITION OR STANDING OF THINGS |
| POPULATION - | A GROUP OF ORGANISMS OF THE SAME SPECIES POPULATING A GIVEN AREA. |
| EXTINCT - | A SPECIES THAT NO LONGER EXISTS. |
| EXTIRPATED - | A SPECIES THAT NO LONGER EXISTS IN THE WILD FOR THAT REGION, BUT OCCURING ELSEWHERE. |
| ENDANGERED - | A SPECIES FACING IMMINENT EXTIRPATION OR EXTINCTION. |
| THREATENED - | A SPECIES LIKELY TO BECOME ENDANGERED IF LIMITING FACTORS ARE NOT REVERSED. |
| VULNERABLE - | A SPECIES OF SPECIAL CONCERN BECAUSE OF CHARACTERISTICS THAT MAKE IT IS |
| PARTICULARLY SENSITIVE TO HUMAN ACTIVITIES OR NATURAL EVENTS. | |
| SPECIAL CONCERN - | SAME AS ABOVE. |
| NOT AT RISK - | A SPECIES THAT HAS BEEN EVALUATED AND FOUND NOT TO BE AT RISK. |
| INDETERMINED - | A SPECIES FOR WHICH THERE IS INSUFFICIENT SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION TO SUPPORT STATUS |
| DESIGNATION. | |
| DATA DEFICIENT - | SAME AS ABOVE. |
| MAMMALS - | ANY WARM-BLOODED VERTEBRATE HAVING THE SKIN MORE OR LESS COVERED WITH HAIR, YOUNG |
| ARE BORN ALIVE EXCEPT FOR THE SMALL SUBCLASS OF MONO TREMES AND NOURISHED WITH | |
| MILK. | |
| BIRDS - | WARM-BLOODED EDGG-LAYING VERTEBRATES CHARACTERIZED BY FEATHERS AND FORELIMBS |
| MODIFIED AS WINGS. | |
| AMPHIBIANS - | COLD-BLOODED VERTEBRATE TYPICALY LIVING ON LAND BUT BREEDING IN WATER, AQUATIC |
| LARVAE UNDERGO METAMORPHOSIS INTO ADULT FORM | |
| REPTILES - | ANY COLD-BLOODED VERTEBRATE OF THE CLASS REPTILIA INCLUDING TORTOISES, TURTLES, |
| SNAKES LIZARDS & ALLIGATORS | |
| MOLLUSCS - | INVERTEBRATE HAVING A SOFT UNSEGMENTED BODY USUALLY ENCLOSED IN A SHELL. |
| PLANTS - | A LIVING ORGANISM LACKING THE POWER OF LOCOMOTION. |
| LEPIDOPTERANS - | INSECT THAT IN THE ADULT STATE HAS FOUR WINGS MORE OR LESS COVERED WITH TINY SCALES. |
| FISHES - | A NAME LOOSELY APPLIED IN POPULAR USAGE TO MANY ANIMALS OF DIVERSE |
| CHARACTERISTICS, LIVING IN THE WATER. | |
| MOSSES - | TINY LEAFY-STEMMED FLOWERLESS PLANTS. |
| LICHENS - | ANY THALLOPHYTIC PLANT OF THE DIVISION LICHENS; OCCUR AS CRUSTY PATCHES OR BUSHY |
| GROWTHS ON TREE TRUNKS OR ROCKS OR BARE GROUND. |