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Taiwan

Asia · Eastern Asia

Total Species
5813
Threatened
326
CR + EN + VU
Population
23 816 775
Area
36 193 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 52
Endangered 101
Vulnerable 173
Near Threatened 116
Least Concern 1378
Data Deficient 102
Not Evaluated 3040
Extinct 30

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 2026
Animalia 1779
Bacteria 872
Fungi 594
Chromista 352
Protozoa 181
Archaea 7
Viruses 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Taiwan

Shinella granuli

Not Evaluated

owl's-eye

Mammillaria parkinsonii

Endangered

Isopterygium Moss

Isopterygium tenerum

Not Evaluated

Red algae

Acanthophora spicifera

Not Evaluated

Kocuria marina

Not Evaluated

Many-Fruited Pelt Lichen

Peltigera polydactylon

Data Deficient

Buffelgrass

Cenchrus ciliaris

Not Evaluated

Pacific jewel box

Chama pacifica

Not Evaluated

Pacific Leach's cranch squid

Leachia pacifica

Data Deficient

Clouded Agaric

Clitocybe nebularis

Least Concern

Annual Lespedeza

Kummerowia striata

Not Evaluated

Japanese pear rust

Gymnosporangium asiaticum

Not Evaluated

Bonpland's croton

Croton bonplandianus

Not Evaluated

Pacific pearl-oyster

Pinctada margaritifera

Not Evaluated

paddle grass

Halophila decipiens

Least Concern

Paddlenose chimaera

Rhinochimaera africana

Data Deficient

Aloe Haircap

Pogonatum aloides

Least Concern

African Black Wattle

Peltophorum africanum

Least Concern

Achlya americana

Not Evaluated

Woodland false buttonweed

Spermacoce remota

Not Evaluated

Largeleaf maidenhair

Adiantum macrophyllum

Not Evaluated

Spottedheart

Stictocardia tiliifolia

Least Concern

Kurthia massiliensis

Not Evaluated

Asian soybean rust

Phakopsora pachyrhizi

Not Evaluated

Golden Leather Fern

Acrostichum aureum

Not Evaluated

Corm dry rot

Rigidoporus vinctus

Not Evaluated

Slender dwarf morning-glory

Evolvulus alsinoides

Not Evaluated

Saffron Soldiers

Trichia scabra

Not Evaluated

Kocuria arsenatis

Not Evaluated

Chinese Spiny Lobster

Panulirus stimpsoni

Data Deficient

pore coral

Montipora mactanensis

Vulnerable

Mustard Lichen

Pyxine subcinerea

Not Evaluated

saffron spike

Aphelandra squarrosa

Not Evaluated

Leaf rust of coffee

Hemileia vastatrix

Not Evaluated

Onion Smudge Fungus

Colletotrichum circinans

Not Evaluated

Snow Fungus

Tremella fuciformis

Not Evaluated

Painted Suillus

Suillus spraguei

Not Evaluated

Broadleaved bristlegrass

Setaria palmifolia

Not Evaluated

Shrubby false buttonweed

Spermacoce verticillata

Not Evaluated

Pale-edged stingray

Telatrygon zugei

Vulnerable

Poison Ivy Rust

Pileolaria brevipes

Not Evaluated

Staph beetle

Sepedophilus testaceus

Least Concern

starflower coral

Astreopora incrustans

Vulnerable

Chicita'S Sea Storm Lichen

Cetrelia chicitae

Not Evaluated

Asian Jumpseed

Persicaria filiformis

Not Evaluated

Katagnymene spiralis

Not Evaluated

Buddha's hand

Alocasia cucullata

Not Evaluated

Urn-fruit beauty-berry

Callicarpa macrophylla

Least Concern

Pale Moonsnail

Euspira pallida

Vulnerable

geographer cone

Conus geographus

Least Concern

Blackbodied leg skate

Sinobatis melanosoma

Least Concern

violet crown cactus

Rebutia minuscula

Least Concern

Tuberous Polypore

Polyporus tuberaster

Least Concern

Common Club Rush Rust

Puccinia scirpi

Not Evaluated

Dumortier's Liverwort

Dumortiera hirsuta

Not Evaluated

Palisade signalgrass

Urochloa brizantha

Not Evaluated

Stalkleaf murainagrass

Ischaemum timorense

Extinct

Palmate Germanderwort

Riccardia palmata

Vulnerable

Vectis moss

Chenia leptophylla

Not Evaluated

Lasiobolus cuniculi

Not Evaluated

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