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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

(Asoka Barb)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(Rock Pigeon)
 

Featured Species

(Fischer's victoria squeaker)
 

Extreme Species

(Lewiston cornsalad)
Pollinators 1 : Bats

Species Relation

(European cranberrybush)
 
provides Food for 2
(Green peach aphid)
 

Common Species

ant  asparagus  banana  blackbird  chicken  chimpanzee  cockatoo  corn  crocodile  daffodil  deer  dog  dove  elk  flamingo  giraffe  grapefruit  gull  hippopotamus  hornbill  horse  human  hyena  lion  loon  mammal  nemo  orange  ostrich  pheasant  radish  rat  robin  skunk  soybean  stork  swan  termite  trout  tuna  turtle  walnut  walrus  wasp  weasel  wolf  woodchuck  woodpecker  yak 

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Fastest animals
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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 ♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons License ♦ 2Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
Puntius asoka Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Columba livia Species recognized by Peterson A.P., 26-May-2005, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Synodontis afrofischeri Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Valerianella locusta Species recognized by Kartesz J., , ITIS Regional: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Myzus persicae Species recognized by Favret C, 08-Feb-2013, AphidSF: Aphid Species File in Catalog of Life 2011
Viburnum opulus Species recognized by Kartesz J., , ITIS Regional: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
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