| LC control no. | sh 85046565 |
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| LC classification | QL88 QL88.15 |
| Topical heading | Extinct animals |
| Variant(s) | Extirpated animals Extirpated species Locally extinct animals Locally extinct species |
| See also | headings for individual extinct animals and groups of extinct animals Animals Extinction (Biology) |
| Scope note | Here are entered works on species or groups of animals that no longer exist anywhere or that have become extinct in a particular area, but not throughout their entire range. |
| Found in | Wild species at risk in Saskatchewan, via WWW, July 22, 2004 (Extirpated: Any native wild species of plant or animal that no longer exists in the wild in Saskatchewan, but exists in the wild outside of Saskatchewan) Response statements for extirpated, endangered, and threatened species listed by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) in 2001, 2002. Endangered animals in Wisconsin : with supplementary lists of animals with changing status, extirpated animals, uncommon plants and plant communities, 1973. The dict. of forestry, c1998 (extinction: the global death of the last surviving individual of a species, group, or gene; extirpation 1. local extinction of a species from an area 2. loss of some but not all populations of a species) Dunster, J. Dict. of natural resource management, c1996 (extinct: In the narrowest sense, a species that no longer exists anywhere. The term is sometimes used in a regional rather than global setting; extinction: The termination of a species caused by failure to reproduce and death of all the remaining members of that species. Can be natural or human-induced; extirpation: The elimination of a species or subspecies from a particular area, but not from its entire range; locally extinct: Elimination of a species in one area but not over its entire range. Local extinctions may aggregate into regional or eventually, global extinctions) McGraw-Hill dict. of sci. and tech. terms, via AccessScience, July 22, 2004 (extirpate [BIOLOGY] To uproot, destroy, make extinct, or exterminate) |
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