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Taiwan

Asia · Eastern Asia

Total Species
5813
Threatened
402
CR + EN + VU
Population
23 816 775
Area
36 193 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 58
Endangered 118
Vulnerable 226
Near Threatened 173
Least Concern 1476
Data Deficient 101
Not Evaluated 3095
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

Burning Bush

Euonymus alatus

Not Evaluated

house mouse

Mus musculus

Least Concern

Beet Armyworm

Spodoptera exigua

Not Evaluated

Gaetbulibacter saemankumensis

Not Evaluated

Hyphodermella corrugata

Vulnerable

Katagnymene pelagic

Not Evaluated

Kurthia huakuii

Not Evaluated

Large Cabbage White

Pieris brassicae

Least Concern

Lasiobolus cuniculi

Not Evaluated

Annual Coreopsis

Coreopsis tinctoria

Not Evaluated

Katagnymene spiralis

Not Evaluated

Kocuria arsenatis

Not Evaluated

Kurthia massiliensis

Not Evaluated

Glycomyces harbinensis

Not Evaluated

Kocuria marina

Not Evaluated

Kocuria carniphila

Not Evaluated

Burmese fishtail palm

Caryota mitis

Least Concern

Glycomyces lechevalierae

Not Evaluated

Gloeocystidiellum porosum

Least Concern

Kurthia senegalensis

Not Evaluated

Kurthia sibirica

Not Evaluated

Halomonas koreensis

Not Evaluated

Burkholderia turbans

Not Evaluated

Beet

Beta vulgaris

Vulnerable

Leeuwenhoekiella blandensis

Not Evaluated

Fortune's Yew Plum

Cephalotaxus fortunei

Least Concern

Leucobacter denitrificans

Not Evaluated

Litoribrevibacter euphylliae

Not Evaluated

Halomonas rifensis

Not Evaluated

Lepocinclis marssonii

Not Evaluated

Luteimonas mephitis

Not Evaluated

Lysinibacillus massiliensis

Not Evaluated

Garganey

Spatula querquedula

Endangered

Burkholderia stabilis

Not Evaluated

Gadwall

Mareca strepera

Least Concern

Lysinibacillus odysseyi

Not Evaluated

Frustulia rhomboides

Not Evaluated

Lysobacter enzymogenes

Not Evaluated

Luteimonas compostus

Not Evaluated

Lysinibacillus acetophenoni

Not Evaluated

Lysobacter dokdonensis

Not Evaluated

Lysobacter lycopersici

Not Evaluated

Lysinibacillus fluoroglycofenilyticus

Not Evaluated

Lysinibacillus manganicus

Not Evaluated

Lysinibacillus parviboronicapiens

Not Evaluated

Lysobacter brunescens

Not Evaluated

Burkholderia plantarii

Not Evaluated

Bee Plant

Borago officinalis

Not Evaluated

Luteimonas composti

Not Evaluated

Luteimonas marina

Not Evaluated

Luteimonas padinae

Not Evaluated

Luteimonas pelagia

Not Evaluated

Lysinibacillus pakistanensis

Not Evaluated

Lysobacter concretionis

Not Evaluated

Lysobacter gummosus

Not Evaluated

Mallomonas allorgei

Not Evaluated

Methanofollis aquaemaris

Not Evaluated

Annual canarygrass

Phalaris canariensis

Not Evaluated

Alligatorweed

Alternanthera philoxeroides

Not Evaluated

African basil

Ocimum gratissimum

Not Evaluated

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