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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

(dwarf pebblesnail)
(Critically Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(American evergreen)
 

Featured Species

(blue cichlid)
 

Extreme Species

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

Species Relation

(Chinese banyan)
 
provides Food for 2
(Spectacled Bulbul)
 

Common Species

alligator  alpaca  asparagus  camel  cardinal  chickadee  chipmunk  cormorant  cougar  coyote  crow  daffodil  donkey  eel  elephant  elk  emu  fish  goose  gull  hamster  hippopotamus  hornbill  hyena  koala  lark  lime  macaw  manatee  marigold  moose  nuthatch  opossum  partridge  peanut  porpoise  rabbit  rice  seal  sloth  swan  thrush  toad  tortoise  tuna  walrus  watermelon 

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Fastest animals
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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 ♦ 2"Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529–572
Somatogyrus nanus Species recognized by , 01-Jan-2005, MolluscaFW: World Checklist of Freshwater Mollusca in Catalog of Life 2011
Syngonium podophyllum Species recognized by Govaerts R., 11-Nov-2003, WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families in Catalog of Life 2011
Nanochromis nudiceps Species recognized by Group expert : Kullander, S.O., 02-Oct-2012, 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
Pycnonotus erythropthalmos Species recognized by Peterson A.P., 17-Oct-2001, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Ficus thonningii Species recognized by Kartesz J., , ITIS Regional: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
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