Table 1.

The eukaryotic biota of Britain and Ireland

Kingdom	Phyla	Classes	Orders	Families	Genera	Species
All UKSI taxa	63	218	880	4,174	19,257	72,572
Fungi	7	35	166	578	3,198	18,512
Metazoa	32	96	405	2,827	13,169	41,613
Viridiplantae	9	38	156	438	2,083	8,072
Chromista and other microbial eukaryotes	15	49	153	331	807	4,375
Global taxa	70	274	1,295	10,735	175,901	1,879,687
DToL proportion	0.90	0.80	0.68	0.39	0.11	0.04

Data from the Natural History Museum UK Species Inventory (UKSI; https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/uk-species.html) and Species2000 Catalogue of Life (https://www.catalogueoflife.org/) (for Global taxa) (1). Despite their apparent precision, these numbers should be regarded as first estimates. DToL initially aims to sequence one representative of each taxonomic family (bold numbers in column "Families").