All for the species 'sake Yang Ping-shih, who participated in making the list, admits that it has flaws: "There is a lack of scientific statistics about the populations and distributions of domestic species, and so the scholars who wrote the list naturally drew on their past experiences and consultations."
參與名錄製訂的台大植病系教授楊平世就直言名錄當然有瑕疵，「在目前國內物種分佈範圍、族群多寡等科學數據缺乏下，名單只能由一些學者依過去經驗協商出來。」