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Taiwan

Asia · Eastern Asia

Total Species
5813
Threatened
436
CR + EN + VU
Population
23.816.775
Area
36.193 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 59
Endangered 131
Vulnerable 246
Near Threatened 193
Least Concern 1651
Data Deficient 132
Not Evaluated 3127
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

Himalayan Water Shrew

Chimarrogale himalayica

Least Concern

Oriental House Rat

Rattus tanezumi

Least Concern

Snow banana

Ensete glaucum

Least Concern

Chestnut-cheeked Starling

Agropsar philippensis

Least Concern

Broadmouth cat shark

Apristurus macrostomus

Least Concern

Long-toed Myotis

Myotis secundus

Least Concern

Blackboard Tree

Alstonia scholaris

Least Concern

Borneo cat shark

Apristurus platyrhynchus

Least Concern

Calamus

Acorus calamus

Least Concern

Ruffled Freckle Pelt Lichen

Peltigera leucophlebia

Critically Endangered

Streambank bulrush

Schoenoplectus triqueter

Critically Endangered

Flavobacterium haoranii

Not Evaluated

Kushneria avicenniae

Not Evaluated

Roseomonas lacus

Not Evaluated

Calothrix cylindrica

Not Evaluated

Rhizobium cellulosilyticum

Not Evaluated

Rhizobium paranaense

Not Evaluated

Rhizobium jaguaris

Not Evaluated

Rhizobium hainanense

Not Evaluated

Shore Fly

Scatella stagnalis

Not Evaluated

Sichuan-pepper

Zanthoxylum bungeanum

Least Concern

Vine Moth

Eupoecilia ambiguella

Least Concern

European Red Mite

Panonychus ulmi

Not Evaluated

larger star coral

Favites flexuosa

Near Threatened

Lysobacter defluvii

Not Evaluated

Lysobacter ruishenii

Not Evaluated

crispy crust coral

Merulina scabricula

Least Concern

Queensland cycas

Cycas media

Least Concern

Fine Ashisawa Crab

Geothelphusa gracilipes

Data Deficient

gold-spot octopus

Amphioctopus fangsiao

Least Concern

Fujian Large-headed Frog

Limnonectes fujianensis

Least Concern

Sumatran scleria

Scleria sumatrensis

Least Concern

lesser valley coral

Platygyra contorta

Least Concern

human

Homo sapiens

Not Evaluated

sea albizia

Albizia retusa

Least Concern

Mycetocola tolaasinivorans

Not Evaluated

hump coral

Porites australiensis

Least Concern

Microbacterium murale

Not Evaluated

Microbacterium thalassium

Not Evaluated

pore coral

Montipora hoffmeisteri

Least Concern

Microbacterium tumbae

Not Evaluated

Microbacterium neimengense

Not Evaluated

Microbacterium arborescens

Not Evaluated

Microbacterium ulmi

Not Evaluated

Microbacterium jejuense

Not Evaluated

Wasp

Pediobius pyrgo

Not Evaluated

Microbacterium awajiense

Not Evaluated

Wu Ze Large Crab

Geothelphusa tawu

Data Deficient

Microbacterium marinilacus

Not Evaluated

Microbacterium halophilum

Not Evaluated

Microbacterium amylolyticum

Not Evaluated

Microbacterium profundi

Not Evaluated

White Thread Fish

Holothuria leucospilota

Least Concern

Arthrobacter pascens

Not Evaluated

Arthrobacter rhombi

Not Evaluated

Arthrobacter subterraneus

Not Evaluated

Arthrobacter ginkgonis

Not Evaluated

Arthrobacter tecti

Not Evaluated

Arthrobacter nanjingensis

Not Evaluated

Long-legged bat tick

Ixodes vespertilionis

Not Evaluated

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