Cal. Fish & G. Code § 2068 : CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME CODE — FISH AND GAME GENERALLY — ENDANGERED SPECIES — GENERAL PROVISIONS — Candidate species defined

"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.