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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

(orchileucos false brook salamander)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(European flat oyster)
 

Featured Species

(leer fish)
 

Extreme Species

(field parsley piert)
Pollinators 1 : Bats

Species Relation

(minor jackknife clam)
 
provides Food for 2
(lined sea star)
 

Common Species

alligator  armadillo  banana  bee  beetle  cactus  cardinal  caribou  cat  chickadee  cougar  cow  crocodile  dog  donkey  elephant  emu  finch  grapefruit  hamster  horse  kangaroo  kiwi  lime  loon  mammal  monkey  mussel  nemo  octopus  orange  palm  panda  parrot  pigeon  raccoon  rat  reptile  rhinoceros  robin  scallop  spider  tuna  violet  walnut  walrus  whale  wheat 

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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 ♦ 2Characteristics of foraging in the soft-bottom benthic starfish Luidia clathrata (Echinodermata: Asteroidea): prey selectivity, switching behavior, functional responses and movement patterns, James B. McClintock and John M. Lawrence, Oecologia (Berlin) (1985) 66:291-298
Pseudoeurycea orchileucos Species recognized by , , ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Ostrea edulis Species recognized by , 21-Dec-2004, WoRMS Mollusca: World Marine Mollusca database in Catalog of Life 2011
Lichia amia Species recognized by Group expert : Smith-Vaniz, W.F., 02-Oct-2012, FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Aphanes arvensis Species recognized by R. Pankhurst, 2009, IOPI Global Plant Checklist in Catalog of Life 2011
Luidia clathrata Species recognized by Mah C., 2008-10-08 07:13:24, WoRMS Asteroidea: World Asteroidea database in Catalog of Life 2011
Ensis minor Species recognized by , 21-Dec-2004, WoRMS Mollusca: World Marine Mollusca database in Catalog of Life 2011
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