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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

(Coastal sage scrub oak)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(Spongeweed)
 

Featured Species

(Sockeye)
 

Extreme Species

(Sundew)

Species Relation

(wild boar)
 
is a Host for Parasite1
(Chigoe)
 

Common Species

beetle  bird  butterfly  cheetah  chicken  cormorant  coyote  crane  crow  dolphin  elk  finch  flamingo  frog  grouse  hummingbird  hyena  insect  kingfisher  lark  leopard  macaw  marigold  mouse  mussel  nemo  octopus  orange  orangutan  ostrich  palm  panda  pig  radish  reptile  salmon  seahorse  stork  tiger  tomato  tuna  turkey  walrus  weasel  woodchuck  yak  zebra 

Quick Links

Animals sorted by adult weight
Animals sorted by litter (brood) size
Animals sorted by longevity (lifetime)
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 1International Flea Database
Quercus dumosa Species recognized by Govaerts R., 11-Nov-2003, WCSP: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families in Catalog of Life 2011
Codium fragile subsp. tomentosoides Species recognized by Guiry M.D., , AlgaeBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Sphyraena guachancho Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Drosera peltata Species recognized by Culham A., 2008, Droseraceae Database in Catalog of Life 2011
Tunga penetrans Species recognized by Medvedev S.G., 21-Nov-2005, Parhost: World Database of Fleas in Catalog of Life 2011
Sus scrofa Species recognized by Grubb P., 22-Apr-2004, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
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Weather provided by NOAA METAR Data Access