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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

(Southern hammerhead shark)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(House Crow)
 

Featured Species

(scarlet kelpfish)
 

Extreme Species

(Western white pine)
Height 1 : 196 feet (60 m)

Species Relation

(paperflower)
 
provides Food for 2
(Purple sunbird)
 

Common Species

anteater  armadillo  avocado  badger  banana  bird  blackbird  cinnamon  cotton  cougar  dog  dove  elephant  goose  hamster  hickory  hippopotamus  hummingbird  koala  lamprey  lion  mole  moth  mouse  nemo  nuthatch  octopus  parakeet  partridge  rhinoceros  sea lion  seal  shark  snake  sparrow  spider  squirrel  sturgeon  termite  tiger  tortoise  trout  violet  walnut  whale  woodchuck 

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Fastest animals
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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 ♦ 2Notes on Feeding and Breeding Habits of the Purple Sunbird Nectarinia asiatica (Cinnyris asiaticus) in Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan, Southern Iran, TAHER GHADIRIAN, ALI T. QASHQAEI & MOHSEN DADRAS, Podoces, 2007, 2(2): 122–126
Sphyrna lewini Species recognized by Group expert : Compagno, L.J.V., 02-Oct-2012, FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Corvus splendens Species recognized by Peterson A.P., 17-Oct-2001, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Gibbonsia montereyensis Species recognized by Group expert : Williams, J.T., 02-Oct-2012, FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Pinus monticola Species recognized by Farjon A., Jul-2011, Conifer Database in Catalog of Life 2011
Nectarinia asiatica Species recognized by Peterson A.P., 17-Oct-2001, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Bougainvillea glabra Species recognized by Kartesz J., , ITIS Regional: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
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