How many species on earth.Every day some new species is being discovered. According to a new estimate of scientists, there are about 87 lakh species of animals in the world, but many of them are still yet to be identified
Under a global project, work is going on to list all the organisms and their species present on the earth…
Under a global project, work is going on to list all the organisms and their species present on earth. Till now, names of 10 lakh creatures have been registered in this catalog along with their detailed information. According to scientists associated with the project, names of seven and a half lakh more creatures can be added to the catalogue.
About three thousand biologists from around the world are involved in this project led by Professor Thomas Orrell of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington and Professor Frank Bisbee of the University of Reading, Britain. According to scientists, as part of the work going on for the last six years, till now we have kept 10 lakh 9 thousand living beings in our database.
The listing work will continue till 2011 and researchers hope that by then this number will reach 17.5 lakh. But some experts involved in the project believe that the total number of organisms on Earth that are completely different from each other can range from 80 lakh to 12 million. Pro. According to Aurel, all known living organisms on Earth will be recorded in this catalogue. These will include everything from trees, plants and animals to bacteria.
He says, it is surprising that despite the efforts of biologists over the last two centuries and the current increasing interest in biodiversity around the world, there is still no such catalog in which all known organisms have been listed. The Integrated Taxonomic Information System: Species 2000 Catalog is an umbrella program that provides access to data maintained by many scientific organizations around the world.
For example, information related to dipteran flies is maintained by the Systematic Entomology Laboratory of the US Department of Agriculture. Similarly, information about clothes moth, dragonfly and spider is kept in the Natural History Museums located in London, Netherlands and New York respectively. Experts in Canada and Paris have knowledge about certain types of insects.
Information from around the world is checked through special software before being included in this catalogue. Organisms can be found in the catalog by their Latin or common names. Professor Bisley says that according to an estimate, a hundred new varieties of fish, two thousand new flowers and thousands of insects are identified every year. New species are rarely seen in mammals,
However, in the last few years, the world’s smallest deer and a new species of elephant have been discovered. Apart from this, three new species of vine have also emerged. If new species of organisms are emerging, a large number are also becoming extinct. In such a situation, there is a strong need to know how many types of creatures are there on earth. Our aim is to prepare a single catalogue, in which all living organisms on Earth can be included
Which is the largest creature on earth?
The whale is the largest living creature in the world. The length of the world’s longest whale (Largest blue whale) is said to be up to 100 feet and its weight has been measured at around 1.8 lakh kg.
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