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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

(Flores Crow)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(yellow starthistle)
 

Featured Species

(Surgeonfish)
 

Extreme Species

(Hedge Mustard)
Pollinators 1 : Bats

Species Relation

(waterflea)
 
provides Food for 2
(redband trout)
 

Common Species

alligator  armadillo  asparagus  bear  cactus  chipmunk  corn  cotton  coyote  daffodil  elk  emu  garlic  hyena  iguana  insect  kiwi  leopard  lettuce  lion  llama  monkey  nemo  octopus  opossum  parrot  puma  raccoon  radish  reindeer  reptile  robin  scallop  sea lion  seahorse  sheep  sloth  soybean  squirrel  sturgeon  termite  titmouse  toad  tomato  turtle  weasel  wolf  yak  zebra 

Quick Links

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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 ♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons License ♦ 2NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
Corvus florensis Species recognized by Peterson A.P., 17-Oct-2001, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Centaurea solstitialis Species recognized by Flann C., 25-Sep-2011, GCC: Global Compositae Checklist in Catalog of Life 2011
Ctenochaetus striatus Species recognized by Group expert : Randall, J.E., 02-Oct-2012, FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Sisymbrium officinale Species recognized by Warwick S.I. , Francis A. & Al-Shehbaz I.A., 2009, Brassicaceae species checklist and database in Catalog of Life 2011
Oncorhynchus mykiss Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Daphnia galeata Species recognized by , , ITIS Regional: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
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