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Fauna of India Checklist Portal

July 9 , 2024 139 days 302 0
  • India has become the first country in the world to prepare a checklist of its entire fauna, covering 104,561 species.
  • It hosts 121 checklists of all known taxa across 36 phyla, including endemic, threatened, and scheduled species.
  • It is a compilation of all animal species recorded in India since the 1750s, including endemic, threatened, and scheduled species.
  • As per the ZSI report 2023, India is one of the world’s 17 megadiverse nations, hosting around 7-8% of the world’s documented species.

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