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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

(georgia pigtoe)
(Critically Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(House Sparrow)
 

Featured Species

(measled cowrie)
 

Extreme Species

(Northern Bottlenose Whale)
Adult Weight 1 : 7.17 tons (6,500.00 kg)

Species Relation

(Sardine)
 
provides Food for 2
(White grouper)
 

Common Species

ant  asparagus  avocado  bat  blackbird  camel  cat  chipmunk  corn  cotton  deer  donkey  hamster  hickory  horse  hummingbird  hyena  jay  kingfisher  lion  macaw  manatee  moose  moth  pig  pine  puma  quail  rabbit  radish  ray  rhinoceros  rice  robin  scallop  sea lion  seahorse  shark  sparrow  starling  termite  titmouse  tomato  turtle  watermelon  weasel  wheat  wolf  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 ♦ 2Food Habits of Reef Fishes of the West Indies, John E. Randall, Stud. Trop. Oceanogr. 5, 665–847 (1967)
Pleurobema hanleyianum Species recognized by , 24-Jan-2013, FADA Bivalvia: World checklist of freshwater Bivalvia species in Catalog of Life 2011
Passer domesticus Species recognized by Banks R.C., 17-Oct-2001, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Macrocypraea zebra Species recognized by , 02-Aug-2011, WoRMS Mollusca: World Marine Mollusca database in Catalog of Life 2011
Hyperoodon ampullatus Species recognized by Gardner A.L, 05-Dec-2008, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Epinephelus striatus Species recognized by Group expert : Heemstra, P.C., 02-Oct-2012, FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Harengula clupeola Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
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