Section 2068 Of Article 1. General Provisions From California Fish And Game Code >> Division 3. >> Chapter 1.5. >> Article 1.

. "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.