of the of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI)
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Neophylax kolodskii Illustration by Nancy Lowe |
| Smokies Species Tally |
| (As of January of 2010) |
| Organism Group | Existing Records |
New to the Park |
New To Science |
Total Discovered |
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Acanthocephala (spiny-headed worms) |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Algae (all types including diatoms) | 358 | 566 | 78 | 1,002 |
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Annelids: Aquatic Oligochaetes (aquatic segmented worms) |
1 | 38 | 1 | 40 |
|
Annelids: Earthworms (terrestrial segmented worms) |
19 | 7 | 4 | 30 |
|
Arachnids: Harvestmen (daddy longlegs) |
1 | 14 | 0 | 15 |
|
Arachnids: Ixodida (ticks) |
7 | 4 | 0 | 11 |
|
Arachnids: Mites (terrestrial and aquatic) |
22 | 113 | 56 | 191 |
|
Arachnids: Scorpions (scorpions and pseudoscorpions) |
2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
|
Arachnids: Spiders (spiders) |
226 | 266 | 41 | 533 |
| Bryozoa (moss animalcules) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Chilopoda (centipedes) | 20 | 9 | 0 | 29 |
| Cnidaria (freshwater jellyfish) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Coleoptera (beetles) | 887 | 1,488 | 42 | 2,417 |
| Collembola (springtails) | 56 | 144 | 60 | 260 |
| Crustaceans (crayfish, copepods, etc.) | 17 | 67 | 26 | 110 |
| Dermaptera (earwigs) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Diplopoda (millipedes) | 45 | 22 | 2 | 69 |
| Diplura (bristletails, etc.) | 3 | 5 | 3 | 11 |
| Diptera (flies) | 565 | 317 | 29 | 911 |
| Ephemeroptera (mayflies) | 77 | 56 | 8 | 141 |
| Fungi (mushrooms, etc.) | 2,157 | 583 | 57 | 2,797 |
| Hemiptera (true bugs and hoppers) | 261 | 314 | 3 | 578 |
| Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, ants, etc.) | 263 | 479 | 23 | 765 |
| Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) | 891 | 944 | 36 | 1,871 |
| Lichens | 393 | 175 | 18 | 586 |
| Mecoptera (scorpionflies) | 18 | 2 | 1 | 21 |
| Microbes: Archaea (bacteria-like organisms) | 0 | 0 | 44 | 44 |
| Microbes: Bacteria | 0 | 179 | 270 | 449 |
| Microbes: Microsporidia | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| Microbes: Protists (protozoa, etc.) | 0 | 36 | 2 | 38 |
| Microbes: Viruses | 0 | 5 | 11 | 16 |
| Microcoryphia (jumping bristletails) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Molluscs (snails, clams, etc.) | 112 | 50 | 7 | 169 |
| Nematodes (round worms) | 13 | 8 | 1 | 22 |
| Nematomorpha (horsehair worms) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| Nemertea (ribbon or proboscis worms) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Neuroptera (lacewings, antlions, etc.) | 12 | 33 | 0 | 45 |
| Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) | 61 | 34 | 0 | 95 |
| Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, etc.) | 76 | 31 | 1 | 108 |
| Orthopteroids (others: cockroaches, mantids, walkingsticks, etc.) | 7 | 6 | 0 | 13 |
| Pauropoda (pauropods) | 5 | 27 | 13 | 45 |
| Plants: non-vascular (mosses, etc.) | 472 | 10 | 0 | 482 |
| Plants: vascular (trees, wildflowers, grasses, etc.) | 1,598 | 75 | 0 | 1,673 |
| Platyhelminthes (flatworms, etc.) | 10 | 12 | 1 | 23 |
| Plecoptera (stoneflies) | 104 | 5 | 3 | 112 |
| Protura (proturans) | 11 | 5 | 10 | 26 |
| Psocoptera (barklice) | 17 | 51 | 7 | 75 |
| Pthiraptera (chewing and sucking lice) | 8 | 41 | 0 | 49 |
| Siphonaptera (fleas) | 17 | 9 | 1 | 27 |
| Slime Molds | 128 | 139 | 17 | 284 |
| Symphyla (garden centipedes) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Tardigrades (water bears) | 3 | 55 | 18 | 76 |
| Thysanoptera (thrips) | 0 | 46 | 0 | 46 |
| Thysanura (silverfishes) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Trichoptera (caddisflies) | 155 | 78 | 5 | 238 |
| Vertebrates: Amphibians (frogs, toads, and salamanders) | 41 | 2 | 0 | 43 |
| Vertebrates: Aves (birds) | 237 | 8 | 0 | 245 |
| Vertebrates: Fishes | 71 | 6 | 0 | 77 |
| Vertebrates: Mammals | 65 | 1 | 0 | 66 |
| Vertebrates: Reptiles (snakes, lizards, and turtles) | 38 | 2 | 0 | 40 |
| Organism Totals: | 9,553 | 6,582 | 907 | 17,042 |
Nichols, Becky. 2009. Personal communication, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
