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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

violin spiders

Loxosceles rufescens

Not Evaluated

Vogel tephrosia

Tephrosia vogelii

Not Evaluated

Ze Great Crab

Geothelphusa dolichopodes

Least Concern

Wahlenberg's nodding moss

Pohlia wahlenbergii

Least Concern

Wall Rue

Asplenium ruta-muraria

Least Concern

Walnut

Juglans regia

Least Concern

Wandflower

Sparaxis tricolor

Not Evaluated

Water Buffalo

Bubalus bubalis

Not Evaluated

Water Chickweed

Stellaria aquatica

Not Evaluated

waterlily aphid

Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae

Not Evaluated

water fern

Ceratopteris thalictroides

Not Evaluated

red calla

Zantedeschia rehmannii

Not Evaluated

Water lettuce

Pistia stratiotes

Least Concern

watermelon pepper

Peperomia argyreia

Not Evaluated

Waterpoppy

Hydrocleys nymphoides

Not Evaluated

Water-snowflake

Nymphoides indica

Least Concern

dwarf white bauhinia

Bauhinia acuminata

Least Concern

Waterthyme

Hydrilla verticillata

Not Evaluated

Water yam

Dioscorea alata

Not Evaluated

Wavyleaf sea lavender

Limonium sinuatum

Not Evaluated

Wax mallow

Malvaviscus arboreus

Not Evaluated

weasel cone

Conus mustelinus

Least Concern

Weeping fig

Ficus benjamina

Not Evaluated

Pygmy Slipper Lobster

Biarctus sordidus

Least Concern

Fragrant manjack

Cordia dichotoma

Least Concern

Weeping lovegrass

Eragrostis curvula

Not Evaluated

Ceratium extensum

Not Evaluated

Northern Catalpa

Catalpa speciosa

Least Concern

weeping willow

Salix babylonica

Not Evaluated

elkhorn fern

Platycerium bifurcatum

Not Evaluated

Welsh onion

Allium fistulosum

Critically Endangered

Wenzel s notchwort

Lophozia wenzelii

Least Concern

Black Teatfish

Holothuria nobilis

Endangered

Western Hemlock-spruce

Tsuga heterophylla

Not Evaluated

pore coral

Montipora porites

Near Threatened

Powdered Speckled Shield Lichen

Punctelia subrudecta

Near Threatened

Common Liverwort

Marchantia polymorpha

Not Evaluated

Chives

Allium schoenoprasum

Least Concern

Rust fungus

Puccinia hemerocallidis

Not Evaluated

West indian gherkin

Cucumis anguria

Not Evaluated

West Indian mahogany

Swietenia mahagoni

Near Threatened

West Indian rattlebox

Crotalaria trichotoma

Not Evaluated

West Indian sage

Salvia occidentalis

Not Evaluated

West Indian scale

Pseudaulacaspis pentagona

Not Evaluated

West indian woodnettle

Laportea aestuans

Extinct

Mount Morrison Spruce

Picea morrisonicola

Vulnerable

Indian-rhododendron

Melastoma malabathricum

Not Evaluated

Taiwanese Mole Shrew

Anourosorex yamashinai

Least Concern

whiskerplant

Orthosiphon aristatus

Not Evaluated

Whisk Fern

Psilotum nudum

Least Concern

White Beak Sedge

Rhynchospora alba

Vulnerable

Foolproofplant

Billbergia pyramidalis

Not Evaluated

Push Pin Slime Mold

Hemitrichia calyculata

Not Evaluated

Rapid ohia death/ohia wilt

Ceratocystis fimbriata

Not Evaluated

Whiteberry Yew

Pseudotaxus chienii

Vulnerable

mother-of-pearl-plant

Graptopetalum paraguayense

Not Evaluated

Tussock dropseed

Sporobolus diandrus

Not Evaluated

Sacred bamboo

Nandina domestica

Not Evaluated

Rainbow Cactus

Echinocereus pectinatus

Least Concern

Cigarette beetle

Lasioderma serricorne

Not Evaluated

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