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, 2009) |
| Organism Group |
Old Records (prior to ATBI) |
New to Park (since ATBI began) |
New To Science |
Total Discovered |
| Acari (mites) | 21 | 106 | 56 | 183 |
| Algae | 358 | 564 | 78 | 1,000 |
| Amphibians (frogs, toads, and salamanders) | 41 | 2 | 0 | 43 |
| Annelids (segmented worms: aquatic) | 1 | 38 | 2 | 41 |
| Annelids (segmented worms: terrestrial = earthworms) | 13 | 8 | 4 | 25 |
| Aranea (spiders) | 224 | 240 | 41 | 505 |
| Archaea | 0 | 0 | 44 | 44 |
| Aves (birds) | 237 | 7 | 0 | 244 |
| Bacteria | 0 | 179 | 270 | 449 |
| Bryozoa (moss animalcules) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Chilopoda (centipedes) | 20 | 9 | 0 | 29 |
| Cnidaria (freshwater jellyfish) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Coleoptera (beetles) | 887 | 1,448 | 42 | 2,377 |
| Collembola (springtails) | 55 | 100 | 60 | 215 |
| Crustaceans (crayfish, copepods, etc.) | 14 | 66 | 27 | 107 |
| Dermaptera (earwigs) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Diplopoda (millipedes) | 50 | 25 | 2 | 77 |
| Diplura (bristletails, etc.) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
| Diptera (flies) | 559 | 291 | 27 | 877 |
| Ephemeroptera (mayflies) | 125 | 6 | 4 | 135 |
| Fish | 71 | 6 | 0 | 77 |
| Fungi (mushrooms, etc.) | 2,157 | 583 | 57 | 2,797 |
| Hemiptera (true bugs) | 261 | 313 | 3 | 577 |
| Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, ants, etc.) | 263 | 479 | 23 | 765 |
| Ixodida (ticks) | 7 | 4 | 0 | 11 |
| Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) | 891 | 944 | 36 | 1,871 |
| Lichens | 393 | 164 | 15 | 572 |
| Mammalia (mammals) | 65 | 1 | 0 | 66 |
| Mecoptera (scorpionflies) | 18 | 2 | 1 | 21 |
| Microcoryphia (jumping bristletails) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Mollusca (snails, clams, etc.) | 105 | 46 | 7 | 153 |
| Nematodes (nematode worms) | 6 | 6 | 1 | 13 |
| Nematomorpha (horsehair worms) | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| Neuroptera (Lacewings, antlions, etc.) | 12 | 33 | 0 | 45 |
| Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) | 61 | 34 | 0 | 95 |
| Opilionids (daddy longlegs or harvestmen) | 0 | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets, etc.) | 76 | 31 | 1 | 108 |
| Orthopteroids (cockroaches, mantids, walking sticks, etc.) | 7 | 6 | 0 | 13 |
| Pauropoda | 5 | 27 | 13 | 45 |
| Plants: non-vascular | 472 | 9 | 0 | 481 |
| Plants: vascular (trees, wildflowers, grasses, etc.) | 1,598 | 65 | 0 | 1,663 |
| Platyhelminthes (flatworms, etc.) | 11 | 8 | 1 | 20 |
| Plecoptera (stoneflies) | 104 | 5 | 2 | 111 |
| Protozoa | 0 | 33 | 2 | 35 |
| Protura | 11 | 5 | 10 | 26 |
| Scorpions and Pseudoscorpions | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Psocoptera (barklice) | 18 | 49 | 8 | 75 |
| Pthiraptera (chewing and sucking lice) | 8 | 39 | 0 | 47 |
| Reptiles (snakes, lizards and turtles) | 38 | 2 | 0 | 40 |
| Siphonaptera (fleas) | 17 | 9 | 1 | 27 |
| Slime Molds | 128 | 136 | 11 | 275 |
| Symphyla (garden centipedes) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Tardigrades (water bears) | 3 | 56 | 18 | 77 |
| Thysanoptera (thrips) | 0 | 46 | 0 | 46 |
| Thysanura (silverfishes) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Trichoptera (caddisflies) | 155 | 78 | 5 | 238 |
| Viruses | 0 | 5 | 11 | 16 |
| Organism Totals: | 9,576 | 6,339 | 890 | 16,805 |
REFERENCES
Nichols, Becky. 2009. Personal communication, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
