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Taiwan

Asia · Eastern Asia

Total Species
5813
Threatened
486
CR + EN + VU
Population
23,816,775
Area
36,193 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 67
Endangered 148
Vulnerable 271
Near Threatened 212
Least Concern 1730
Data Deficient 133
Not Evaluated 3193
Extinct 31

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

Annual-Aster

Callistephus chinensis

Not Evaluated

Butter-Foot Bolete

Boletus auripes

Not Evaluated

Butterfly tree

Bauhinia purpurea

Least Concern

Bearded Tooth

Hericium erinaceus

Critically Endangered

butterfly-flower

Iris japonica

Not Evaluated

buttercup winter-hazel

Corylopsis pauciflora

Data Deficient

bearded pawwort

Barbilophozia barbata

Critically Endangered

Anise Mazegill

Gloeophyllum odoratum

Least Concern

Algirosphaera robusta

Not Evaluated

Afipia felis

Not Evaluated

Acetobacter tropicalis

Not Evaluated

Acanthoica quattrospina

Not Evaluated

Buttercup

Narcissus pseudonarcissus

Least Concern

Butter And Eggs

Linaria vulgaris

Least Concern

Bearded Paphiopedilum

Paphiopedilum barbatum

Endangered

Butler’s Rice Frog,Painted Chorus Frog,Tubercled Pygmy Frog

Microhyla butleri

Least Concern

Bush Grass

Calamagrostis epigejos

Least Concern

Bearded Dapperling

Cystolepiota seminuda

Least Concern

Anise Hyssop

Agastache foeniculum

Not Evaluated

bush coral

Seriatopora hystrix

Least Concern

Brown Mountain Leskea

Lescuraea incurvata

Least Concern

bearberry cotoneaster

Cotoneaster dammeri

Not Evaluated

Brown house moth

Hofmannophila pseudospretella

Least Concern

Common (Mealy) Redpoll

Acanthis flammea

Least Concern

Beanweed

Scytosiphon lomentaria

Least Concern

Aniseed-Weed

Foeniculum vulgare

Not Evaluated

algae stomp

Rugulopteryx okamurae

Not Evaluated

brown grimmia

Grimmia elongata

Least Concern

Brown Funnel Polypore

Coltricia perennis

Least Concern

Bean

Phaseolus vulgaris

Not Evaluated

Brownbeard rice

Oryza rufipogon

Least Concern

brown-banded cockroach

Supella longipalpa

Not Evaluated

beaked tasselweed

Ruppia maritima

Extinct

Aniseed Polypore

Haploporus odorus

Vulnerable

Malayan-sword

Aglaonema simplex

Least Concern

Ceratium gravidum

Not Evaluated

Beaked Iris

Iris ensata

Not Evaluated

Chitinophaga eiseniae

Not Evaluated

Chaetomium elatum

Not Evaluated

Broom Fork-Moss

Dicranum scoparium

Least Concern

Ceratium trichoceros

Not Evaluated

Chitinophaga skermanii

Not Evaluated

Broom

Cytisus scoparius

Least Concern

beaked bow moss

Dicranodontium denudatum

Not Evaluated

Anil de pasto

Indigofera suffruticosa

Least Concern

Alfred manta

Mobula alfredi

Vulnerable

Cobetia marina

Not Evaluated

Colletotrichum lindemuthianum

Not Evaluated

Coleofasciculus chthonoplastes

Not Evaluated

Comatricha elegans

Not Evaluated

Afghan-Melon

Citrullus lanatus

Not Evaluated

coast redwood

Sequoia sempervirens

Endangered

Chinese freshwater edible crab

Eriocheir sinensis

Not Evaluated

Flavobacterium johnsoniae

Not Evaluated

Chaetoceros pendulum

Not Evaluated

Flavobacterium beibuense

Not Evaluated

Flavobacterium frigoris

Not Evaluated

bronze whaler

Carcharhinus brachyurus

Vulnerable

Chaetoceros diversus

Not Evaluated

Chromobacterium aquaticum

Not Evaluated

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