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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

(Yellow-headed Parrot)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(American evergreen)
 

Featured Species

(Featherfin panchax)
 

Extreme Species

(Bryde's whale)
Adult Weight 1 : 17.64 tons (16,000.00 kg)

Species Relation

(Common apple)
 
provides Food for 2
(Mottled cup moth)
 

Common Species

alligator  anteater  bird  blackbird  butterfly  cheetah  chickadee  cow  elephant  elk  grapefruit  gull  hippopotamus  iguana  kangaroo  kingfisher  kiwi  koala  lamprey  lime  lion  llama  loon  mammal  marigold  nuthatch  octopus  otter  parrot  partridge  peanut  pigeon  puma  rabbit  reptile  seal  snake  spider  tiger  toad  tuna  turkey  turtle  vanilla  walnut  whale  wolf 

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Animals that exist only in captivity
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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 ♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Amazona oratrix Species recognized by Peterson A.P., 23-Jan-2007, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Syngonium podophyllum Species recognized by Govaerts R., 11-Nov-2003, WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families in Catalog of Life 2011
Pterolebias longipinnis Species recognized by Group expert : Costa, W.J.E.M., 02-Oct-2012, FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Balaenoptera edeni Species recognized by Gardner A.L, 05-Dec-2008, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Doratifera vulnerans Species recognized by Beccaloni G., 20/05/2011, LepIndex: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index in Catalog of Life 2011
Malus pumila Species recognized by R. Pankhurst, 2009, IOPI Global Plant Checklist in Catalog of Life 2011
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