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;
- 1,305,250 invertebrates
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