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. 2005 Feb 28;360(1454):289–295. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2004.1584

Table 3.

Number of non-marine vertebrate species in the LPI dataset, excluding fish, by vertebrate class and biogeographic realm. (Terrestrial and freshwater biomes only.)

Australasian Afrotropical Indo-Malayan Nearctic Neotropical Palaearctic total
amphibians 5 0 9 46 2 5 67
reptiles 3 7 6 2 5 2 25
birds 12 21 4 293 17 172 519
mammals 6 54 28 41 7 45 181
total 26 82 47 382 31 224 792
percentage of all recorded species 0.6 1.4 0.9 20.0 0.3 6.3 2.6