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ASM Mammal Diversity Database

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The Mammal Diversity Database of the American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) is your home base for tracking the latest taxonomic changes to living and recently extinct (i.e., since ~1500 CE) species and higher taxa of mammals.

Here we are curating the taxonomic implications of new research publications in real time — with the goal of promoting rigorous study of mammal biodiversity worldwide.

Current version: v1.13, released 13 Jul 2024. Past versions on Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4139722.

Taxa MSW3 2005 MDD 2018 Current
Species
Total 5,416 6,495
Recently extinct 75 96
Living 5,341 6,399
Domestic 0 16
Living wild 5,338 6,382
Genera 1,230 1,314
Families 153 167
Orders 29 27