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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

(Chatham parakeet)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(Ladino Clover)
 

Featured Species

(Black prochilodus)
 

Extreme Species

(Southern Elephant Seal)
Adult Weight 1 : 1.54 tons (1,400.00 kg)

Species Relation

(Black Cherry)
 
provides Food for 2
(Northern Mockingbird)
 

Common Species

alpaca  ant  asparagus  avocado  bat  cactus  camel  cat  chickadee  chicken  chimpanzee  cinnamon  condor  daffodil  daisy  dog  eel  elephant  frog  garlic  giraffe  gull  hornbill  lark  llama  lynx  mammal  marigold  mole  moth  nemo  otter  panda  pheasant  pine  rabbit  shark  skunk  sloth  squirrel  termite  thrush  turkey  turtle  walrus  whale  woodpecker  yak 

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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 ♦ 2Study of Northern Virginia Ecology
Cyanoramphus forbesi Species recognized by , , ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Trifolium repens Species recognized by Roskov Y.R., Jun-2005, ILDIS World Database of Legumes in Catalog of Life 2011
Prochilodus nigricans Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Mirounga leonina Species recognized by Gardner A.L, 15-Aug-2007, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Mimus polyglottos Species recognized by Peterson A.P., 17-Oct-2001, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Prunus serotina Species recognized by R. Pankhurst, 2009, IOPI Global Plant Checklist in Catalog of Life 2011
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