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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

(Toad)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(common pine shoot beetle)
 

Featured Species

(devil's guts)
 

Extreme Species

(Pacific hemlock)
Height 1 : 229 feet (70 m)

Species Relation

(common kidney-vetch)
 
provides Food for 2
(Hoary Footman)
 

Common Species

alligator  anteater  armadillo  bat  bear  bison  butterfly  cactus  camel  chicken  chipmunk  cockatoo  daffodil  daisy  dolphin  dove  duck  eel  elephant  emu  hamster  hickory  jay  kiwi  llama  loon  mole  mouse  nuthatch  orangutan  panda  pig  radish  rice  seal  shark  spider  squirrel  starling  stork  sturgeon  termite  toad  tomato  trout  walrus  watermelon  wheat  zebra 

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Animals that exist only in captivity
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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 ♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons License ♦ 2Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
Bufo koynayensis Species recognized by , , ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Tomicus piniperda Species recognized by Alonso-Zarazaga M.A.& Lyal C.H.C., 2010, WTaxa: Electronic Catalogue of Weevil names (Curculionoidea) in Catalog of Life 2011
Calystegia sepium Species recognized by Kartesz J., , ITIS Regional: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Tsuga heterophylla Species recognized by Farjon A., Jul-2011, Conifer Database in Catalog of Life 2011
Eilema caniola Species recognized by Beccaloni G., 17/03/2011, LepIndex: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index in Catalog of Life 2011
Anthyllis vulneraria Species recognized by Sokoloff D.D., Mar-2001, ILDIS World Database of Legumes in Catalog of Life 2011
Images provided by Google Image Search ♦ Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons License
Weather provided by NOAA METAR Data Access