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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

(Thomas' Worm Snake)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(Norway rat)
 

Featured Species

(Duskyfin grouper)
 

Extreme Species

(Minke Whale)
Adult Weight 1 : 8.27 tons (7,500.00 kg)

Species Relation

(beeftree)
 
provides Food for 2
(Duges wax scale)
 

Common Species

bee  beetle  bird  cardinal  chicken  chimpanzee  cockatoo  condor  cormorant  corn  crow  dolphin  fox  giraffe  goat  gorilla  hickory  hornbill  horse  kiwi  koala  lark  manatee  monkey  mouse  panda  panther  pigeon  pine  radish  reindeer  salamander  salmon  scallop  sea lion  seahorse  seal  soybean  sparrow  starling  termite  thrush  violet  walnut  walrus  weasel  woodpecker  yak 

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 ♦ 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 ♦ 2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Typhlops hectus Species recognized by Uetz P., , TIGR Reptile Database in Catalog of Life 2011
Rattus norvegicus Species recognized by Musser G.G., 02-May-2001, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Epinephelus corallicola Species recognized by Group expert : Heemstra, P.C., 02-Oct-2012, FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Balaenoptera acutorostrata Species recognized by Mead J.G., 05-Dec-2008, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Ceroplastes dugesii Species recognized by Ben-Dov Y., , ScaleNet: Systematic Database of the Scale Insects of the World in Catalog of Life 2011
Guapira discolor Species recognized by Kartesz J., , ITIS Regional: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
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