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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

(Southern Snaketail)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(trumpetbush)
 

Featured Species

(Greek)
 

Extreme Species

(Indian rhinoceros)
Adult Weight 1 : 1.77 tons (1,602.33 kg)

Species Relation

(Japanese apricot)
 
provides Food for 2
(Japanese maple scale)
 

Common Species

ant  armadillo  badger  bat  bear  bird  cardinal  cheetah  condor  corn  coyote  crane  dog  eel  emu  finch  flamingo  frog  gerbil  goose  gorilla  grapefruit  horse  human  iguana  kangaroo  mammal  manatee  moth  mussel  nuthatch  orange  palm  parrot  pig  pine  porpoise  puma  rabbit  reptile  sea lion  seal  swallow  thrush  walnut  wolf 

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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 ♦ 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
Ophiogomphus australis Species recognized by van Tol J., 24-Dec-2011, Odonata: Global Species Database Odonata in Catalog of Life 2011
Tecoma stans Species recognized by Kartesz J., , ITIS Regional: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Gymnothorax unicolor Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Rhinoceros unicornis Species recognized by Grubb P., 22-Apr-2004, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Lopholeucaspis japonica Species recognized by Ben-Dov Y., Miller, German & Gimpel, , ScaleNet: Systematic Database of the Scale Insects of the World in Catalog of Life 2011
Prunus mume Species recognized by R. Pankhurst, 2009, IOPI Global Plant Checklist in Catalog of Life 2011
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