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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

(Coosa moccasinshell)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(European Rabbit)
 

Featured Species

(Black-tipped flyingfish)
 

Extreme Species

(Fruit fly)
Female Maturity 1 : 7 days
Male Maturity 1 : 7 days

Species Relation

(Evergreen Oak)
 
provides Food for 2
(irregular oak scale)
 

Common Species

alligator  alpaca  ant  anteater  armadillo  avocado  bird  butterfly  cat  cinnamon  corn  cougar  coyote  crocodile  crow  daffodil  dog  finch  flamingo  garlic  goat  hornbill  iguana  jay  kangaroo  lime  lizard  lynx  mole  moose  mussel  nemo  orangutan  partridge  pine  raccoon  radish  reptile  rice  salamander  salmon  skunk  squirrel  starling  titmouse  turkey  violet  wolf 

Quick Links

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 ♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Medionidus parvulus Species recognized by , 24-Jan-2013, FADA Bivalvia: World checklist of freshwater Bivalvia species in Catalog of Life 2011
Oryctolagus cuniculus Species recognized by Gardner A.L, 15-Aug-2007, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Cheilopogon spilopterus Species recognized by Group expert : Parin, N.V., 02-Oct-2012, FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Drosophila melanogaster Species recognized by Brake, I. & Bachli, G., 2008, Systema Dipterorum in Catalog of Life 2011
Hemiberlesia quercicola Species recognized by Ben-Dov Y., Miller, German & Gimpel, , ScaleNet: Systematic Database of the Scale Insects of the World in Catalog of Life 2011
Quercus engelmannii Species recognized by Govaerts R., 11-Nov-2003, WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families in Catalog of Life 2011
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