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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

(Copan Stream Frog)
(Critically Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(eastern gray squirrel)
 

Featured Species

(Dash-dot barb)
 

Extreme Species

(African Bush Elephant)
Adult Weight 1 : 4.45 tons (4,035.00 kg)

Species Relation

(mountain paper birch)
 
provides Food for 2
(winter moth)
 

Common Species

alpaca  ant  armadillo  banana  bear  bee  bird  butterfly  cactus  cheetah  chicken  cougar  crow  deer  dolphin  duck  emu  finch  fish  giraffe  hippopotamus  jaguar  kingfisher  kiwi  lemon  leopard  lettuce  loon  manatee  monkey  mouse  mussel  opossum  orange  panda  parrot  ray  reindeer  reptile  robin  sheep  spider  sturgeon  tiger  toad  trout  turkey  turtle  weasel  wren 

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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 ♦ 1Loxodonta africana, Larry Laursen and Marc Bekoff, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 92, pp. –8 (1978) ♦ 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
Ptychohyla hypomykter Species recognized by , , ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Sciurus carolinensis Species recognized by Hoffman R.S., 08-Jun-2004, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Barbus atkinsoni Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Loxodonta africana Species recognized by Wilson D.E, 15-Aug-2007, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Operophtera brumata Species recognized by Beccaloni G., 08/04/2011, LepIndex: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index in Catalog of Life 2011
Betula papyrifera Species recognized by Govaerts R., 11-Nov-2003, WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families in Catalog of Life 2011
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