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;