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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

(Staghorn coral)
(Critically Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(Blue bottlefly)
 

Featured Species

(Spotted hoplo catfish)
 

Extreme Species

(Fin Whale)
Adult Weight 1 : 77.16 tons (70,000.00 kg)
Maximum Longevity 1 : 114 years

Species Relation

(Jambul)
 
provides Food for 2
(Caribbean fruit fly)
 

Common Species

bat  bird  camel  cheetah  chickadee  cinnamon  cormorant  cow  crane  crocodile  daffodil  dog  duck  elephant  fish  fox  gerbil  goat  gull  hickory  hippopotamus  hummingbird  hyena  jay  kangaroo  lark  lime  mole  mussel  opossum  parakeet  pig  pigeon  porpoise  quail  rat  reptile  robin  seal  skunk  sloth  tomato  violet  walrus  wasp  wheat  woodpecker 

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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 ♦ 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 ♦ 2Norrbom, A.L. 2004. Fruit fly (Tephritidae) host plant database. Version Nov, 2004.
Acropora cervicornis Species recognized by Cairns S.D., Hoeksema B.W. & van der Land J., 2007, URMO: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms in Catalog of Life 2011
Calliphora vicina Species recognized by Systema Dipterorum working record, 2010, Systema Dipterorum in Catalog of Life 2011
Megalechis thoracata Species recognized by Group expert : Reis, R.E., 02-Oct-2012, FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Balaenoptera physalus Species recognized by Mead J.G., 05-Dec-2008, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Anastrepha suspensa Species recognized by Norrbom, A. L., L. E. Carroll, F. C. Thompson, I. M. White & A. Freidberg, 1999, Systema Dipterorum in Catalog of Life 2011
Syzygium cumini Species recognized by Govaerts R., 11-Nov-2003, WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families in Catalog of Life 2011
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