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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

(Harenna Shrew)
(Critically Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(African Clawed Frog)
 

Featured Species

(grass scale)
 

Extreme Species

(Johnston's gum)
Height 1 : 196 feet (60 m)

Species Relation

(knobkneed crestleg crab)
 
provides Food for 2
(Blue seaperch)
 

Common Species

alligator  armadillo  avocado  bear  bee  beetle  blackbird  cat  cheetah  chicken  corn  cotton  cow  dog  eel  elk  flamingo  frog  goat  gorilla  hornbill  horse  hyena  iguana  jaguar  kangaroo  lettuce  lion  loon  lynx  marigold  opossum  palm  parrot  quail  raccoon  radish  ray  rhinoceros  rice  scallop  sheep  snake  soybean  termite  trout  turkey  violet 

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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 ♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons License ♦ 2The Foraging Ecology of Sympatric Marine Fish in the Genus Embiotoca (Embiotocidae): Importance of Foraging Behavior in Prey Size Selection, R.J. Schmitt and J.A. Coyer, Oecologia (Berl) (1982) 55:369-378
Crocidura harenna Species recognized by Hutterer R., 28-Nov-2006, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Xenopus laevis Species recognized by McDiarmid R.W., 01-Sep-2009, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Chortinaspis consolidata Species recognized by Ben-Dov Y., Miller, German & Gimpel, , ScaleNet: Systematic Database of the Scale Insects of the World in Catalog of Life 2011
Eucalyptus johnstonii Species recognized by Hill K.D. & Stanberg L.C., 2004, IOPI Global Plant Checklist in Catalog of Life 2011
Embiotoca lateralis Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Lophopanopeus leucomanus Species recognized by , 2009-12-17 15:15:58, WoRMS Brachyura: World List of marine Brachyura in Catalog of Life 2011
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