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India

Asia · Southern Asia

Total Species
1380
Threatened
30
CR + EN + VU
Population
1.380.004.385
Area
3.287.263 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 5
Endangered 5
Vulnerable 20
Near Threatened 18
Least Concern 260
Data Deficient 8
Not Evaluated 328
Extinct in the Wild 1
Extinct 4

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 1306
Animalia 69
Chromista 4
Bacteria 1

Featured Species

All Species in India

Jerusalem thorn

Parkinsonia aculeata

Least Concern

Ground Clematis

Clematis recta

Not Evaluated

Stiff Sunflower

Helianthus pauciflorus

Not Evaluated

Fire ant

Solenopsis geminata

Not Evaluated

pharaoh ant

Monomorium pharaonis

Not Evaluated

Common bamboo

Bambusa vulgaris

Not Evaluated

Gypsy Moth

Lymantria dispar

Least Concern

chital

Axis axis

Not Evaluated

Common Seahorse

Hippocampus kuda

Vulnerable

Indian Cobra

Naja naja

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

Rose Plume

Cnaemidophorus rhododactyla

Least Concern

Common Plume

Emmelina monodactyla

Least Concern

Dirty Sea-Squirt

Ascidiella aspersa

Least Concern

Asian Clam

Corbicula fluminalis

Not Evaluated

red-spotted horseshoe

Protula tubularia

Not Evaluated

European rabbit

Oryctolagus cuniculus

Near Threatened

Gharial

Gavialis gangeticus

Critically Endangered

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

Knotgrass

Paspalum distichum

Least Concern

Large Sweet Vernalgrass

Anthoxanthum odoratum

Not Evaluated

Reed canarygrass

Phalaris arundinacea

Least Concern

Mexilhao mussel

Perna perna

Not Evaluated

Pavement ant

Tetramorium caespitum

Least Concern

Asian green mussel

Perna viridis

Not Evaluated

Brachionid rotifer

Brachionus forficula

Not Evaluated

Longhorned crazy ant

Paratrechina longicornis

Not Evaluated

Rock Pigeon

Columba livia

Least Concern

Darnel ryegrass

Lolium temulentum

Critically Endangered

Perennial ryegrass

Lolium perenne

Not Evaluated

Annual ryegrass

Lolium multiflorum

Not Evaluated

Common oat

Avena sativa

Not Evaluated

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