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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

(Honduras White-lipped Frog)
(Critically Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(Latin American fleabane)
 

Featured Species

(flame-colored snapper)
 

Extreme Species

(Great Plains Toad)
Litter Size 1 : 11,074

Species Relation

(Pilacchi Valli)
 
provides Food for 2
(capped leaf monkey)
 

Common Species

anteater  avocado  bear  cat  cheetah  chimpanzee  condor  cougar  dolphin  dove  eel  emu  finch  flamingo  fox  frog  garlic  giraffe  goat  hornbill  insect  lamprey  lark  lettuce  lion  mammal  monkey  octopus  opossum  panther  parakeet  quail  rabbit  raccoon  reindeer  rice  salmon  sea lion  seahorse  shark  sparrow  spider  swan  tiger  titmouse  vanilla  walnut  weasel  zebra 

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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 ♦ 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 ♦ 2The Diet of the Capped Langur (Presbytis pileata) in a Moist Deciduous Forest in Bangladesh, Craig B. Stanford, International Journal of Primatology, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1991
Leptodactylus silvanimbus Species recognized by , , ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Erigeron karvinskianus Species recognized by Flann C., 22-Dec-2011, GCC: Global Compositae Checklist in Catalog of Life 2011
Lutjanus fulvus Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Anaxyrus cognatus Species recognized by , , ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Trachypithecus pileatus Species recognized by Groves C.P., 30-Jul-2002, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Spatholobus parviflorus Species recognized by Lewis G.P., 1994/1995, ILDIS World Database of Legumes in Catalog of Life 2011
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