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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

(Guaje)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(trailing stitchwort)
 

Featured Species

(false pennyroyal)
 

Extreme Species

(California red fir)
Height 1 : 196 feet (60 m)

Species Relation

(Stinkhorn)
 
provides Food for 2
(Camouflaged Flesh Fly)
 

Common Species

alligator  armadillo  bee  beetle  camel  chickadee  cinnamon  condor  cormorant  corn  cow  daffodil  deer  dove  duck  gerbil  grapefruit  gull  hippopotamus  hornbill  jay  kingfisher  koala  leopard  lettuce  lime  lion  lizard  llama  macaw  mammal  mouse  nemo  nuthatch  orange  ostrich  palm  panda  pig  porpoise  puma  reptile  salmon  seal  soybean  squirrel  tiger  weasel 

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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 ♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons License ♦ 2Ecology of Commanster
Leucaena matudae Species recognized by Hughes C.E., Sep-1999, ILDIS World Database of Legumes in Catalog of Life 2011
Stellaria alsine Species recognized by Kartesz J., , ITIS Regional: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Trichostema brachiatum Species recognized by Kartesz J., , ITIS Regional: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System in Catalog of Life 2011
Abies magnifica Species recognized by Farjon A., Jul-2011, Conifer Database in Catalog of Life 2011
Sarcophaga carnaria Species recognized by Systema Dipterorum working record, 2010, Systema Dipterorum in Catalog of Life 2011
Phallus impudicus var. impudicus Species recognized by Kew Mycology, 2008, Species Fungorum in Catalog of Life 2011
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Weather provided by NOAA METAR Data Access