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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

(Tetra)
(Critically Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(Gum Arabic Tree)
 

Featured Species

(Rearfin opisthopus)
 

Extreme Species

(Cyprine)
Maximum Longevity 1 : 400 years

Species Relation

(Stone Humble-bee)
 
provides Pollination for 2
(Rough Hawksbeard)
 

Common Species

bat  bee  butterfly  cactus  caribou  cat  crocodile  daffodil  dove  elk  finch  fox  gerbil  giraffe  gorilla  gull  horse  human  hummingbird  jay  lark  lettuce  lime  lion  lizard  lynx  octopus  ostrich  parrot  pheasant  puma  roach  salamander  salmon  sea lion  seal  sloth  stork  swan  turkey  turtle  violet  walrus  wasp  wheat  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 ♦ 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 ♦ 2Ecology of Commanster
Rhabdalestes leleupi Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Acacia nilotica Species recognized by Rico M.L., 1994, ILDIS World Database of Legumes in Catalog of Life 2011
Cypselurus opisthopus Species recognized by Group expert : Parin, N.V., 02-Oct-2012, FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Arctica islandica Species recognized by , 21-Dec-2004, WoRMS Mollusca: World Marine Mollusca database in Catalog of Life 2011
Crepis foetida subsp. glandulosa Species recognized by Flann C., 22-Dec-2011, GCC: Global Compositae Checklist in Catalog of Life 2011
Bombus lapidarius Species recognized by , , ITIS Bees: World Bee Checklist in Catalog of Life 2011
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