Candidate species definition

Candidate species means a native species under review for possible listing as endangered, threatened, or sensitive. A species will be considered for candidate designation if sufficient scientific evidence suggests that its status may meet criteria defined for endangered, threatened or sensitive. Currently listed state threatened or state sensitive species may also be designated as state candidate species if their status is in question.

Candidate species means a species—

Candidate species means a species other than a protected species whose status under this Law is under investigation and consideration;

Examples of Candidate species in a sentence

• After preparation of a 1989 status report, the Service reclassified least chub as a Category 1, Candidate species (54 FR 554).

• Candidate species are treated as if they are proposed for listing for purposes of conducting an intra-Service section 7 conference.

• Candidate species: Those species for which the USFWS has, on file, sufficient information on biological vulnerability and threats to support issuance of a proposed rule to list, but issuance of the proposed rule is precluded by higher listing priorities.

• The Page springsnail first received special status designation when it was included as a Category 2 Candidate species in the Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Annual Notice of Review on January 6, 1989 (54 FR 554).

• After preparation of a 1989 status report, the FWS reclassified the least chub as a Category 1 Candidate species (54 FR 554).

More Definitions of Candidate species

Candidate species means any species being considered (by the Secretary of Interior or the Secretary of Commerce) for listing as an endangered or a threatened species, but not yet the subject of a proposed rule (50 CFR 424.02) based on the information provided by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Candidate species means a species or subspecies, or population of native Arizona wildlife, for which habitat or population threats are known or suspected but for which substantial population declines from historic levels have not been documented.

Candidate species means a native species or subspecies

Candidate species means a native species or subspecies of a bird, mammal, fish, amphibian, reptile, or plant that the Commission has formally noticed as being under review by the Department for addition to either the list of endangered species or the list of threatened species, or a species for which the Commission has published a notice of proposed regulation to add the species to either list (Fish & Game Code § 2068).

Candidate species means those species formally recommended by the Director or other reliable

Candidate species means a species identified by 9 the United States Department of the Interior as appropriate for 10 listing as threatened or endangered.

Candidate species means a species identified by the United