History, species eligibility criteria and references used to update the List of vertebrate fauna in Quebec (LFVQ) (French, PDF)

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2026-06-17

__The List of Vertebrate Fauna of Quebec (LFVQ) provides a portrait of all wild vertebrate species documented on Quebec territory. __ It also contains additional information such as the detailed taxonomy of species, the residence status of species in Quebec, the precariousness of the element (or conservation priority) at the provincial level, the status of legal designation under the Act Respecting Threatened or Vulnerable Species (RLRQ, c. E-12.01) and jurisdiction, which is information that indicates at what level, provincial or federal, the responsibility is of the element. The term “element” can refer to various concepts. It is often a species, but it can also be a population, a subspecies, or an ecotype. The LFVQ also makes it possible to indicate extinct or extinct species in Quebec as well as official statistics on the number of vertebrate species in Quebec. These statistics do not include populations, subspecies, or ecotypes, in order not to duplicate the real number of species present on the territory. Species that have disappeared from Quebec or are extinct are not part of the count either. The LFVQ was first published in 1983 and was first updated in 1995. These two…

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