Evolutionarily Significant Unit - Other Equivalent Terms

Other Equivalent Terms

The equivalent term used by COSEWIC is "Wildlife Species", or for brevity just "species", which is used to refer to biological species, subspecies, varieties, or geographically or genetically distinct populations of organisms.

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