How many species are in the database?
The database is continually expanding, and Release 2.0 provides up to the minute stats on the number of species and records it contains. You can find a general summary on the home page and more specific details at the statistics page. Although the database contains information for thousands of species, it is important to bear in mind that there are probably several million species of animals. Indeed, several major groups (especially among invertebrates, but also in vertebrates) remain very poorly characterized in terms of genome size variation, meaning that there is still a great deal of work to be done in this area.
