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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

(Banda Island Dtella)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(European wasp)
 

Featured Species

(yellowbrown angelfish)
 

Extreme Species

(California Redwood)
Height 1 : 360 feet (110 m)

Species Relation

(kiwi)
 
provides Food for 2
(California scale)
 

Common Species

alpaca  ant  armadillo  bison  caribou  chimpanzee  coyote  crocodile  crow  dog  donkey  emu  garlic  gerbil  giraffe  goat  hickory  horse  human  kangaroo  koala  lime  lion  lynx  mammal  monkey  mussel  nemo  otter  parrot  pig  pine  quail  raccoon  rat  reptile  rice  scallop  sloth  squirrel  starling  swallow  swan  thrush  tiger  violet  walnut  wasp 

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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 2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Gehyra barea Species recognized by Uetz P., , TIGR Reptile Database in Catalog of Life 2011
Vespula germanica Species recognized by Gusenleitner J., Nov-2011, ZOBODAT: Zoological-Botanical Database (Vespoidea) in Catalog of Life 2011
Apolemichthys xanthurus Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Sequoia sempervirens Species recognized by Farjon A., Jul-2011, Conifer Database in Catalog of Life 2011
Diaspidiotus perniciosus Species recognized by Ben-Dov Y., Miller, German & Gimpel, , ScaleNet: Systematic Database of the Scale Insects of the World in Catalog of Life 2011
Actinidia chinensis Species recognized by Skinner M.W., , ITIS Regional: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
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