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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

(Balsas splitfin)
(Critically Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(Chinese mitten crab)
 

Featured Species

(Stanley pool puffer)
 

Extreme Species

(Common carp)
Litter Size 1 : 300,000

Species Relation

(Early Flowering Black Wattle)
 
provides Food for 2
(Tailless Lineblue)
 

Common Species

ant  armadillo  bat  bear  butterfly  cardinal  caribou  chicken  chimpanzee  condor  cormorant  daffodil  deer  dolphin  donkey  gerbil  giraffe  goat  gorilla  gull  iguana  insect  kingfisher  kiwi  koala  lime  lion  mammal  monkey  mussel  nemo  otter  palm  parakeet  peanut  puma  radish  roach  salamander  salmon  spider  squirrel  swallow  swan  titmouse  wasp  watermelon  wolf  wren 

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Animals that exist only in captivity
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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 ♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495. ♦ 2Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Ilyodon whitei Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Eriocheir sinensis Species recognized by , 2010-02-25 15:41:38, WoRMS Brachyura: World List of marine Brachyura in Catalog of Life 2011
Tetraodon duboisi Species recognized by Group expert : Matsuura, K., 02-Oct-2012, FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Cyprinus carpio Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Prosotas dubiosa Species recognized by Beccaloni G., 04/05/2011, LepIndex: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index in Catalog of Life 2011
Acacia leiocalyx Species recognized by , , ILDIS World Database of Legumes in Catalog of Life 2011
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