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Welcome to the Global Species website. A mashup of species data from around the web.

Features

The following table contains species counts for select categories.
More detailed statistics can be found on the About page.

 Kingdom  Total  English Names  Attributes   Endangered  Invasive  Relations 
Animalia1,012,361 63,050 15,704 4,679 295 39,016 
Archaea281 1 0 0 0 0 
Bacteria9,051 50 0 1 4 144 
Chromista6,977 135 0 4 7 105 
Fungi46,584 2,557 1,864 4 10 421 
Plantae268,574 28,046 72,473 3,879 404 10,828 
Protozoa14,336 12 0 0 2 73 
Viruses2,480 0 0 0 0 0 
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Grand Total1,360,64493,85190,0418,56772250,587

Endangered Species

(Virgin Islands Coqui)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(African feathergrass)
 

Featured Species

(globose sand crab)
 

Extreme Species

(Loggerhead)
Migration 1 : Interoceanic

Species Relation

(Newfoundland aster)
 
provides Food for 2
(Star-wort)
 

Common Species

alligator  alpaca  armadillo  avocado  bear  bird  blackbird  butterfly  camel  cardinal  cinnamon  condor  coyote  daisy  dolphin  dove  duck  elk  gerbil  goat  hickory  human  hyena  kangaroo  koala  lion  lizard  llama  moose  opossum  panda  parrot  ray  reindeer  reptile  rice  salmon  scallop  sea lion  sloth  soybean  squirrel  starling  sturgeon  titmouse  tomato  tortoise  turkey  woodpecker  wren 

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Animals that exist only in captivity
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Carnivorous plants
Fastest animals
Greatest weight dimorphism
Largest wingspan
Nocturnal animals
Plants sorted by height
Janka Wood Hardness - Softest - Hardest

Citations

Endangered Status provided by IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2 <www.iucnredlist.org> Downloaded on 11 April 2013.
Invasive Status provided by Global Invasive Species Database Downloaded on 10 May 2011.
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org ♦ 2Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
Eleutherodactylus schwartzi Species recognized by McDiarmid R.W., 01-Sep-2009, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Pennisetum macrourum Species recognized by Govaerts R., 24-Oct-2006, WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families in Catalog of Life 2011
Randallia ornata Species recognized by , 2009-12-17 15:15:58, WoRMS Brachyura: World List of marine Brachyura in Catalog of Life 2011
Caretta caretta Species recognized by Uetz P., , TIGR Reptile Database in Catalog of Life 2011
Cucullia asteris Species recognized by Beccaloni G., 22/02/2011, LepIndex: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index in Catalog of Life 2011
Symphyotrichum novi-belgii Species recognized by Flann C., 16-Sep-2010, GCC: Global Compositae Checklist in Catalog of Life 2011
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