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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

(Tree frog)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(wild boar)
 

Featured Species

(Lata)
 

Extreme Species

(Lake Sturgeon)
Maximum Longevity 1 : 152 years

Species Relation

(Japanese bush cherry)
 
provides Food for 2
(California scale)
 

Common Species

armadillo  banana  bee  beetle  bird  cactus  cardinal  cinnamon  cormorant  daffodil  donkey  elk  fox  goat  gull  hummingbird  jay  kangaroo  lamprey  lark  lemon  leopard  lion  loon  mole  moth  nemo  opossum  panther  pigeon  porpoise  puma  quail  rabbit  reptile  sea lion  seal  soybean  squirrel  starling  toad  tortoise  trout  tuna  violet  walnut  wasp  woodchuck 

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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 ♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495. ♦ 2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Plectrohyla glandulosa Species recognized by , , ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Sus scrofa Species recognized by Grubb P., 22-Apr-2004, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Zuccagnia punctata Species recognized by Lewis G.P., 1994/1995, ILDIS World Database of Legumes in Catalog of Life 2011
Acipenser fulvescens Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Diaspidiotus perniciosus Species recognized by Ben-Dov Y., Miller, German & Gimpel, , ScaleNet: Systematic Database of the Scale Insects of the World in Catalog of Life 2011
Prunus japonica Species recognized by R. Pankhurst, 2009, IOPI Global Plant Checklist in Catalog of Life 2011
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