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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

(spilogaster pigmy salamander)
(Critically Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(okie bean)
 

Featured Species

(Humboldt penguin argasid)
 

Extreme Species

(Greater Yellowlegs)
Migration 1 : Intercontinental

Species Relation

(Common European toad)
 
provides Food for 2
(Red Kite)
 

Common Species

ant  asparagus  bat  beetle  bird  cat  chipmunk  cinnamon  crane  daisy  deer  dog  donkey  fox  frog  hickory  jay  koala  lettuce  lime  loon  lynx  manatee  octopus  partridge  pig  pigeon  reptile  rice  roach  salmon  sheep  sloth  soybean  spider  squirrel  starling  swallow  termite  thrush  tiger  titmouse  turtle  walnut  wasp  wheat  woodpecker 

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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 ♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org ♦ 2Ecology of Commanster
Thorius spilogaster Species recognized by , , ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Dipogon lignosus Species recognized by , , ILDIS World Database of Legumes in Catalog of Life 2011
Carios spheniscus Species recognized by Horak I.G., 03-Jan-2004, TicksBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Tringa melanoleuca Species recognized by Banks R.C., 22-Sep-2011, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Milvus milvus Species recognized by Peterson A.P., 22-Sep-2011, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Bufo bufo Species recognized by , , ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
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