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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

(Cinnamon Killi)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(pine tortoise scale)
 

Featured Species

(Tentacled blenny)
 

Extreme Species

(White-rumped Sandpiper)
Migration 1 : Intercontinental

Species Relation

 
provides Pollination for 2
(leadplant amorpha)
 

Common Species

alligator  ant  bear  blackbird  butterfly  chicken  cougar  cow  crane  daffodil  elephant  finch  fish  flamingo  gull  human  hummingbird  hyena  kangaroo  lion  lizard  llama  loon  lynx  manatee  nuthatch  opossum  orange  parakeet  partridge  pine  reptile  salamander  seahorse  sheep  starling  swallow  swan  toad  tomato  trout  turtle  vanilla  violet  watermelon  whale  woodpecker 

Quick Links

Animals sorted by adult weight
Animals sorted by litter (brood) size
Animals sorted by longevity (lifetime)
Animals that exist only in captivity
Animals that hibernate
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 ♦ 2Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
Fundulopanchax cinnamomeus Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Toumeyella parvicornis Species recognized by Ben-Dov Y., , ScaleNet: Systematic Database of the Scale Insects of the World in Catalog of Life 2011
Parablennius tentacularis Species recognized by Group expert : Williams, J.T., 02-Oct-2012, FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Calidris fuscicollis Species recognized by Banks R.C., 22-Sep-2011, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Amorpha canescens Species recognized by , , ILDIS World Database of Legumes in Catalog of Life 2011
Halictus parallelus Species recognized by , , ITIS Bees: World Bee Checklist in Catalog of Life 2011
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