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 |