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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

(sharktail cyanea)
(Extinct in the wild)
 

Invasive Species

(Apron-ribbon vegetable)
 

Featured Species

(Indian threadfin)
 

Extreme Species

(Channel rockcod)
Maximum Longevity 1 : 115 years

Species Relation

(sea beet)
 
provides Food for 2
(clover cutworm)
 

Common Species

alligator  ant  asparagus  banana  bat  bear  beetle  bird  butterfly  chipmunk  cinnamon  cockatoo  cormorant  cotton  cow  dolphin  garlic  goat  grouse  hyena  insect  jay  kangaroo  lettuce  marigold  moth  mussel  nemo  ostrich  otter  panda  puma  reptile  seal  sloth  thrush  titmouse  toad  tortoise  tuna  turtle  vanilla  wasp  watermelon  wheat  wren  yak  zebra 

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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 ♦ 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
Cyanea pinnatifida Species recognized by Govaerts R., 13-Jun-2008, WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families in Catalog of Life 2011
Undaria pinnatifida Species recognized by Guiry M.D., , AlgaeBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Leptomelanosoma indicum Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Sebastolobus alascanus Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Discestra trifolii Species recognized by Beccaloni G., 25/02/2011, LepIndex: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index in Catalog of Life 2011
Beta vulgaris Species recognized by Kartesz J., 2008, ChenoBase: Chenopodiaceae GSD in Catalog of Life 2011
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