DPS’s

• “Species” includes . . . any distinct population segment of any species of vertebrate . . .”

• Discreteness

  • “It is markedly separated from other populations . . . Quantitative measures of genetic or morphological discontinuity may provide evidence of this separation.”

• Significance

  • “The discrete population segment differs markedly from other populations of the species in its genetic characteristics.”

http://endangered.fws.gov/policy/pol005.html

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