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India

Asia · Southern Asia

Total Species
1380
Threatened
66
CR + EN + VU
Population
1380004385
Area
3287263 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 15
Endangered 17
Vulnerable 34
Near Threatened 32
Least Concern 440
Data Deficient 10
Not Evaluated 806
Extinct in the Wild 1
Extinct 7

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 1306
Animalia 69
Chromista 4
Bacteria 1

Featured Species

All Species in India

Dirty Sea-Squirt

Ascidiella aspersa

Least Concern

chital

Axis axis

Not Evaluated

Gypsy Moth

Lymantria dispar

Least Concern

pharaoh ant

Monomorium pharaonis

Not Evaluated

Fire ant

Solenopsis geminata

Not Evaluated

domestic goat

Capra hircus

Not Evaluated

Marsh Plume

Buckleria paludum

Critically Endangered

Longhorned crazy ant

Paratrechina longicornis

Not Evaluated

Pavement ant

Tetramorium caespitum

Least Concern

red-spotted horseshoe

Protula tubularia

Not Evaluated

Asian Clam

Corbicula fluminalis

Not Evaluated

Common Plume

Emmelina monodactyla

Least Concern

Rose Plume

Cnaemidophorus rhododactyla

Least Concern

Ant

Technomyrmex albipes

Not Evaluated

mouflon

Ovis aries

Not Evaluated

Little slender

Calybites phasianipennella

Near Threatened

Dowdy Plume

Stenoptilia zophodactylus

Extinct

Cypress aphid

Cinara cupressi

Not Evaluated

Yellow fever mosquito

Aedes aegypti

Not Evaluated

Bicolored trailing ant

Monomorium floricola

Not Evaluated

Ant

Tetramorium simillimum

Not Evaluated

Citrus leafminer

Phyllocnistis citrella

Not Evaluated

least skeleton shrimp

Phtisica marina

Not Evaluated

Reedbed Plume

Emmelina argoteles

Not Evaluated

Cottony cushion scale

Icerya purchasi

Not Evaluated

Brachionid rotifer

Brachionus forficula

Not Evaluated

Asian green mussel

Perna viridis

Not Evaluated

Mexilhao mussel

Perna perna

Not Evaluated

black Sea jellyfish

Blackfordia virginica

Not Evaluated

Pleated tunicate

Styela plicata

Not Evaluated

Ivory Barnacle

Amphibalanus eburneus

Not Evaluated

The Japanese maple leafhopper

Japananus hyalinus

Not Evaluated

Beardsley leafhopper

Balclutha saltuella

Not Evaluated

crown-of-thorns

Acanthaster planci

Not Evaluated

orange cup coral

Tubastraea coccinea

Not Evaluated

Ant

Anoplolepis gracilipes

Not Evaluated

Ant

Tetramorium lanuginosum

Not Evaluated

black-striped mussel

Mytilopsis sallei

Not Evaluated

spiny hands

Charybdis hellerii

Not Evaluated

Buckwheat

Fagopyrum esculentum

Not Evaluated

Clustered Dock

Rumex conglomeratus

Least Concern

Common Sheep Sorrel

Rumex acetosella

Not Evaluated

Bitter Dock

Rumex obtusifolius

Not Evaluated

Prostrate knotweed

Polygonum aviculare

Not Evaluated

Horned Pondweed

Zannichellia palustris

Vulnerable

Baby Pondweed

Potamogeton pusillus

Endangered

hairlike pondweed

Potamogeton trichoides

Endangered

Berchtold'S Pondweed

Potamogeton berchtoldii

Least Concern

Puncturevine

Tribulus terrestris

Not Evaluated

Big-Leaved Periwinkle

Vinca major

Not Evaluated

Fen Sedge

Cladium mariscus

Endangered

Glossy privet

Ligustrum lucidum

Not Evaluated

Bulbous canarygrass

Phalaris aquatica

Not Evaluated

Santa maria feverfew

Parthenium hysterophorus

Not Evaluated

Sweet bay

Laurus nobilis

Least Concern

Pickerel-Weed

Pontederia cordata

Not Evaluated

Sea rush

Juncus maritimus

Endangered

Tape grass

Vallisneria spiralis

Least Concern

Ground Clematis

Clematis recta

Not Evaluated

Chinese tallow

Triadica sebifera

Not Evaluated

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