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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

(Bruening's killi)
(Endangered)
 

Invasive Species

(Jack)
 

Featured Species

(Twoband bream)
 

Extreme Species

(New Zealand lanternshark)
Female Maturity 1 : 30 years 5 months

Species Relation

(Deepsea whiptail)
 
provides Food for 2
(Whiptail hake)
 

Common Species

asparagus  avocado  banana  bison  blackbird  chimpanzee  cinnamon  cockatoo  cougar  crocodile  daisy  dolphin  donkey  eel  emu  finch  giraffe  goat  gorilla  hickory  horse  human  hyena  insect  jaguar  kingfisher  lamprey  lemon  manatee  marigold  monkey  mouse  mussel  nuthatch  otter  partridge  pig  pigeon  reindeer  sloth  sparrow  tomato  tuna  turtle  wheat  woodpecker  yak 

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Fastest animals
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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 ♦ 2Hoki (Macruronus novaezelandiae) diet variability and associated middle-depth demersal fish species depth distribution in the ecosystem on the Chatham Rise, New Zealand. Amelia MacLeod Connell. Thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Science in Marine Biology. Victoria University of Wellington 2009
Scriptaphyosemion brueningi Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Esox lucius Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Diplodus vulgaris Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Etmopterus baxteri Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Macruronus novaezelandiae Species recognized by , , FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
Lepidorhynchus denticulatus Species recognized by Group expert : Iwamoto, T., 02-Oct-2012, FishBase in Catalog of Life 2011
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