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The IUCN recommends that care be taken to avoid classing species as "data deficient" when the absence of records may indicate dangerously low abundance: "If the range of a taxon is suspected to be relatively circumscribed, if a considerable period of time has elapsed since the last record of the
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to be made. This does not necessarily indicate that the species has not been extensively studied, but it usually indicates that little or no information is available on the
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of the species. It can also indicate uncertainty about the taxonomic classification of an organism; for example, the IUCN classifies the
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List of threatened reptiles and amphibians of the United States
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as "data deficient" because of the likelihood that two or more
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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
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taxon, threatened status may well be justified" (see also
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Index

Conservation status
IUCN Red List category
Extinct
Extinct (EX)
list
Extinct in the Wild (EW)
list
Threatened
Critically Endangered (CR)
list
Endangered (EN)
list
Vulnerable (VU)
list
Lower Risk
Near Threatened (NT)
list
Conservation Dependent (CD)
list
Least Concern (LC)
Data Deficient (DD)
list
Not Evaluated (NE)
International Union for
Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

IUCN Red List
NatureServe status
Lists of organisms by population
IUCN Red List category abbreviations (version 3.1, 2001)
Red List classes
NatureServe status

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