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A taxon is Not Evaluated when it has not yet been assessed against the criteria. Most of the world’s species, notably all the invertebrates and other small life‐forms, fall into this category.

1 The World Conservation Union maintains the Red List with a consortium of other conservation groups. The wording used here follows that of the IUCN with minor differences. For the exact and latest wording see the Red List website: www.iucnredlist.org.

2 In some cases a species is assigned to one category overall, while various subspecies or populations may be designated differently. For example, tigers are Endangered as a species but the Sumatran and South China subspecies are considered Critically Endangered.

3 The examples used here are dominated by animals because relatively few threatened plant species are widely known.