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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

(Lanai pritchardia)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(Chusan Palm)
 

Featured Species

(Buff-breasted Flycatcher)
 

Extreme Species

(Mediterranean Spur-thighed Tortoise)
Maximum Longevity 1 : 127 years

Species Relation

 
provides Food for 2
(gray-cheeked mangabey)
 

Common Species

alpaca  bear  bison  blackbird  butterfly  corn  cotton  coyote  crane  donkey  elephant  emu  flamingo  frog  garlic  gorilla  grapefruit  hummingbird  lamprey  leopard  lime  loon  monkey  nemo  orange  otter  panda  pine  quail  rabbit  reptile  rice  salamander  seahorse  sloth  snake  spider  stork  titmouse  tomato  trout  tuna  vanilla  wasp  woodpecker  wren  yak 

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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 ♦ 2Seasonal Variation in the Feeding Ecology of the Grey-cheeked Mangabey (Lophocebus albigena) in Cameroon, JOHN R. POULSEN, CONNIE J. CLARK, AND THOMAS B. SMITH, American Journal of Primatology 54:91–105 (2001)
Pritchardia glabrata Species recognized by Govaerts R., 11-Nov-2003, WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families in Catalog of Life 2011
Trachycarpus fortunei Species recognized by Govaerts R., 11-Nov-2003, WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families in Catalog of Life 2011
Empidonax fulvifrons Species recognized by Peterson A.P., 29-Nov-2006, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Testudo graeca Species recognized by Uetz P., , TIGR Reptile Database in Catalog of Life 2011
Lophocebus albigena Species recognized by Groves C.P., 30-Jul-2002, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Annickia affinis Species recognized by Setten A. K. van & Maas P. J. M., , AnnonBase: Annonaceae GSD in Catalog of Life 2011
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