Glossary
Endemic
Found naturally in one place and nowhere else.
A species can be endemic to an island, a country or a single lake. This site does not yet label endemic species, because sighting records alone cannot establish it.
Related terms
- Introduced
- Living in a place because people brought the species there, deliberately or by accident, rather than through natural spread.
- Sighting record
- A dated, located observation of a species, as collected by GBIF from museums, surveys and citizen-science projects.