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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

(Slevin's elf skink)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(Roach)
 

Featured Species

(Sheephead bream)
 

Extreme Species

(Lake Sturgeon)
Maximum Longevity 1 : 152 years

Species Relation

(witch's moneybags)
 
provides Food for 2
(Rustic)
 

Common Species

alpaca  ant  banana  bat  bear  bee  beetle  bird  camel  chipmunk  cockatoo  cormorant  corn  cougar  coyote  crocodile  dolphin  finch  giraffe  gull  hickory  hornbill  jaguar  kingfisher  lynx  marigold  moose  mussel  nemo  palm  partridge  pig  pigeon  pine  radish  ray  robin  sheep  sparrow  swallow  tiger  tomato  tortoise  walnut  weasel  wolf  wren  zebra 

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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 ♦ 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. ♦ 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
Nannoscincus slevini Species recognized by Uetz P., , TIGR Reptile Database in Catalog of Life 2011
Rutilus rutilus Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Diplodus puntazzo Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Acipenser fulvescens Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Hoplodrina blanda Species recognized by Beccaloni G., 25/02/2011, LepIndex: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index in Catalog of Life 2011
Hylotelephium telephium Species recognized by Kartesz J., 31-May-2012, ITIS Regional: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
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