Table 1.

The percentage of ‘endemic’ species in the most species-rich phyla that occurred in more than one 5^o cell and only one realm

Phylum	No. species	Arthropoda	Mollusca	Chordata	Cnidaria	Annelida	Echinodermata	Bryozoa	Rhodophyta	Porifera	Nematoda	Ochrophyta
No. species	19782	4812	4432	3535	1684	1358	1222	651	459	379	310	272
Realm
1	8	13		63
2	3	67	33
3	1257	22	18	7	5	9	2	5	9	5	7	5
4	22	50	23		9	14		5
5	627	23	24	7	5	12	3		1	4	21
6	124	40	14	6	5	2	3	13		1		3
7	1973	25	20	16	7	16	6	1	4	2		1
8	29	34		34		14				7	10
9	274	15	10	31	23	5	12			1
10	105	33	10	39	2	2	10			2
11	4093	28	23	16	10	10	7	2		3
12	374	11	6	58	9	2	14
13	3278	22	19	24	12	5	5		4	2	1	2
14	38	5	5	58	26		3
15	4	25		25			25			25
16	1214	16	25	39	11	1	2	2		1
17	121	68	9	15	7
18	281	30	16	12	12	1	1	5		2	2	3
19	19	37	5	21	5					11		0
20	315	22	17	9	20	1	19			1		3
21	422	32	15	14	11	12	3			1
22	19	58		26			11
23	67	19	16	51	9	1	3
24	240	31	27	28	5	3	2	3		1
25	19	47		5	21	16	5
26	192	4	15	54	6	3	1	2	8			3
27	1546	24	46	15	3				7			2
28	1019	12	22	9	5	6	10	31		1
29	519	25	56	1		5	14
30	1580	32	12	8	7	6	13	7		2	2	3
Mean %		29	16	23	8	5	6	3	1	2	1	1

Values > 20% endemicity are emphasized in bold.