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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

(southeast Asian long-fingered bat)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(Atlantic salmon)
 

Featured Species

(Electric catfish)
 

Extreme Species

(Northern Right Whale)
Adult Weight 1 : 25.35 tons (23,000.00 kg)

Species Relation

(Picarel)
 
provides Food for 2
(Bigscale scorpionfish)
 

Common Species

bat  bear  beetle  butterfly  cactus  camel  condor  cormorant  coyote  crow  deer  elk  fish  garlic  goose  human  hummingbird  jaguar  jay  lemon  lime  marigold  octopus  panda  pigeon  porpoise  puma  reindeer  rice  roach  seahorse  skunk  snake  soybean  sparrow  starling  sturgeon  thrush  tiger  titmouse  toad  tortoise  trout  turkey  violet  wheat  woodpecker  wren 

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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 ♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 2Feeding habits and trophic levels of Mediterranean fish, Konstantinos I. Stergiou & Vasiliki S. Karpouzi, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 11: 217–254, 2002
Miniopterus fuscus Species recognized by Wilson D.E, 08-Jun-2004, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Salmo salar Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Malapterurus electricus Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Eubalaena glacialis Species recognized by Mead J.G., 05-Dec-2008, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Scorpaena scrofa Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Spicara smaris Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
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