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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

(Long-legged wood frog)
(Critically Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(Sailfish catfish)
 

Featured Species

(Sailfish catfish)
 

Extreme Species

(black rhinoceros)
Adult Weight 1 : 1.21 tons (1,100.00 kg)

Species Relation

(sugar apple)
 
provides Food for 2
(nigra scale)
 

Common Species

ant  banana  bat  beetle  bird  bison  chicken  cinnamon  cormorant  crow  dove  elk  flamingo  fox  gull  hamster  hickory  horse  hummingbird  hyena  jaguar  kingfisher  kiwi  koala  lark  lemon  lion  loon  manatee  mole  moth  nemo  orangutan  ostrich  otter  panda  pheasant  porpoise  puma  rabbit  ray  reindeer  robin  scallop  titmouse  tomato  tuna  vanilla  yak 

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Animals sorted by adult weight
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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 ♦ 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 ♦ 2Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
Rana macrocnemis Species recognized by , , ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Pterygoplichthys multiradiatus Species recognized by Group expert : Fisch-Muller, S., 02-Oct-2012, FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Pterygoplichthys multiradiatus Species recognized by Group expert : Fisch-Muller, S., 02-Oct-2012, FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Diceros bicornis Species recognized by Grubb P., 22-Apr-2004, ITIS Global: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Parasaissetia nigra Species recognized by Ben-Dov Y., , ScaleNet: Systematic Database of the Scale Insects of the World in Catalog of Life 2011
Annona squamosa Species recognized by Rainer H. in prep., 2011-12-07, AnnonBase: Annonaceae GSD in Catalog of Life 2011
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