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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

(Croatian pijor)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(Striped sea squirt)
 

Featured Species

(Milkvetch)
 

Extreme Species

(Thompsons shark)
Female Maturity 1 : 25 years 4 months

Species Relation

(green ash)
 
provides Food for 2
(Dark Red Underwing)
 

Common Species

banana  bear  bee  bird  chimpanzee  cinnamon  coyote  crane  crocodile  dog  donkey  flamingo  fox  goat  goose  hamster  hornbill  human  hummingbird  iguana  insect  lamprey  lettuce  lizard  marigold  opossum  palm  panther  pheasant  pigeon  porpoise  radish  scallop  seahorse  shark  skunk  soybean  starling  sturgeon  swallow  vanilla  walnut  watermelon  weasel  woodchuck 

Quick Links

Animals sorted by adult weight
Animals sorted by litter (brood) size
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Animals that exist only in captivity
Animals that hibernate
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 ♦ 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
Telestes croaticus Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Styela plicata Species recognized by van der Land J., 01-Oct-2007, URMO: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms in Catalog of Life 2011
Astragalus lotiflorus Species recognized by , , ILDIS World Database of Legumes in Catalog of Life 2011
Deania calcea Species recognized by Group expert : Compagno, L.J.V., 02-Oct-2012, FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Catocala ultronia Species recognized by Beccaloni G., 18/02/2011, LepIndex: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index in Catalog of Life 2011
Fraxinus pennsylvanica Species recognized by Kartesz J., , ITIS Regional: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
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