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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 
Bacteria9,051 50 1 4 144 
Chromista6,977 135 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 2 73 
Viruses2,480 
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Grand Total1,360,64493,85190,0418,56772250,587

Endangered Species

(Seram rat)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(Chinese silvergrass)
 

Featured Species

(long-finned rock-cod)
 

Extreme Species

(brittle-stem hemp-nettle)
Pollinators 1 : Bats

Species Relation

(European white birch)
 
provides Food for 2
(Northern Winter Moth)
 

Common Species

alpaca  badger  bear  bee  butterfly  caribou  cow  coyote  crane  crow  donkey  elk  goose  hippopotamus  horse  lamprey  lettuce  manatee  moose  nuthatch  octopus  opossum  orange  orangutan  palm  panda  parrot  pheasant  rice  roach  salamander  salmon  scallop  sea lion  sturgeon  swallow  thrush  tiger  toad  tortoise  tuna  walnut  walrus  whale  wolf  woodchuck  zebra 

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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 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Stenomys ceramicus Species recognized by Musser G.G., 02-May-2001, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Miscanthus sinensis Species recognized by Govaerts R., 24-Oct-2006, WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families in Catalog of Life 2011
Epinephelus quoyanus Species recognized by Group expert : Heemstra, P.C., 02-Oct-2012, FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Galeopsis tetrahit Species recognized by Kartesz J., , ITIS Regional: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Operophtera fagata Species recognized by Beccaloni G., 08/04/2011, LepIndex: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index in Catalog of Life 2011
Betula pendula Species recognized by Govaerts R., 11-Nov-2003, WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families in Catalog of Life 2011
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