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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

(Das's dwarf toad)
(Critically Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(Snowshoe Hare)
 

Featured Species

(T-Bar Cichlid)
 

Extreme Species

(Whale-shark)
Adult Weight 1 : 20.61 tons (18,700.00 kg)
Female Maturity 1 : 19 years 3 months
Male Maturity 1 : 19 years 3 months

Species Relation

(Trumpet tree)
 
provides Food for 2
(Central American spider monkey)
 

Common Species

anteater  bat  bear  beetle  blackbird  cactus  caribou  cat  chicken  condor  deer  duck  giraffe  goat  gorilla  grouse  gull  hippopotamus  human  insect  lark  lemon  leopard  llama  lynx  marigold  otter  parrot  peanut  rhinoceros  seahorse  shark  sheep  spider  swallow  termite  thrush  titmouse  toad  tomato  tortoise  tuna  vanilla  violet  walnut  yak  zebra 

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Carnivorous plants
Fastest animals
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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 ♦ 2Phenology, seed dispersal, and recruitment in Cecropia peltata (Moraceae) in Cost Rican tropical dry forest, Theodore H. Fleming and Charles F. Williams, Journal of Tropical Ecology (1990) 6:163-178
Adenomus dasi Species recognized by , , ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Lepus americanus Species recognized by Hoffman R.S., 15-Aug-2007, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Cryptoheros sajica Species recognized by Group expert : Kullander, S.O., 02-Oct-2012, FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Rhincodon typus Species recognized by Group expert : Compagno, L.J.V., 02-Oct-2012, FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Ateles geoffroyi Species recognized by Groves C.P., 30-Jul-2002, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Cecropia schreberiana subsp. antillarum Species recognized by Kartesz J., , ITIS Regional: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
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