Global Biodiversity - Known Species

Known Species

The numbers of identified modern species as of 2010 can be broken down as follows:

  • 3,067 brown algae
  • 321,212 plants, including:
    • 10,134 red & green algae
    • 16,236 mosses,
    • 12,000 ferns & horsetails,
    • 1,021 gymnosperms,
    • 281,821 angiosperms;
  • 74,000-120,000 fungi;
  • 17,000 lichens;
  • 1,367,555 animals, including:
    • 1,305,250 invertebrates
      • 2,175 corals
      • 85,000 mollusks
      • 102,248 arachnids
      • 47,000 crustaceans
      • 1,000,000 insects
    • 62,305 vertebrates
      • 31,300 fish,
      • 6,433 amphibians,
      • 9,084 reptiles,
      • 9,998 birds,
      • 5,490 mammals.
    • 68,827 other animal species;

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