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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

(Carolina heelsplitter)
(Critically Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(Spiny Cocklebur)
 

Featured Species

(Barbour's Gecko)
 

Extreme Species

(Blainville's Beaked Whale)
Adult Weight 1 : 1.20 tons (1,088.00 kg)

Species Relation

(White Oak)
 
provides Shelter for 2
(Belted Kingfisher)
 

Common Species

anteater  avocado  banana  bear  bee  butterfly  cardinal  caribou  chicken  cinnamon  condor  daffodil  deer  dog  dove  fish  fox  giraffe  grapefruit  hamster  hippopotamus  horse  jay  lark  lion  lizard  moose  moth  porpoise  quail  rat  rice  roach  robin  salamander  salmon  shark  spider  swallow  toad  turtle  vanilla  watermelon  weasel  woodchuck  woodpecker  yak 

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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 ♦ 2Study of Northern Virginia Ecology
Lasmigona decorata Species recognized by , 24-Jan-2013, FADA Bivalvia: World checklist of freshwater Bivalvia species in Catalog of Life 2011
Xanthium spinosum Species recognized by Flann C., 22-Dec-2011, GCC: Global Compositae Checklist in Catalog of Life 2011
Cnemaspis barbouri Species recognized by Uetz P., , TIGR Reptile Database in Catalog of Life 2011
Mesoplodon densirostris Species recognized by Gardner A.L, 05-Dec-2008, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Megaceryle alcyon Species recognized by Peterson A.P., 13-Jun-2007, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Quercus alba Species recognized by Govaerts R., 11-Nov-2003, WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families in Catalog of Life 2011
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