Claim: Porthidium hespere  is classified as Data Deficient (DD) on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species, this means that the appropriate data on abundance or distribution of these species is lacking.
Evidence: This species is classified as Data Deficient (DD) on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (v3.1, 2001). The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), founded in 1964, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species. It may be well studied, and its biology well known, but appropriate data on abundance and/or distribution are lacking.