That's gone down

Used to be 22%

https://www.half-earthproject.org/newly-discovered-bat-species-named-for-e-o-wilson

Nematodes make up 4/5's of animals on earth (in number) Also beetles make up 25% of all animal species on earth. (They're also 40% of insect species)

So the animal world is mostly just bats, beetles, and ants, then? Wonderful.

The collective biomass of protozoa, bacteria, fungi and plants outweighs the rest of life on Earth by a huge margin.

Edit: Also interesting to note that when biomass is used as a measure of species success, cows are almost twice as successful as humans. Of course, the cow population is dependent on its symbiotic relationship with humans. The biomass of Artic Krill exceeds that of all humans as well. Were only an especially successfully species when when looking at the total amount of energy extracted from our environment, which greatly exceeds the calories stored in our bodies and the energy conversion necessary to hold it there.

Well Rodenta (aka rodents) is the largest family of mammals and its give or take 40% of all known mammal species; but this includes things like beavers.

but you are comparing two values, number of spieces vs number of population.

Genius Homo has 1 species (or at least only one recognized) but has 8ish Billion members Homo Speians (aka Humans). Genius Panthera has 5 species (Lions, Tigers, Leopards, Jaguars, Snow Leopards) but total population less than 200k. Thus one measure (number of species) Panthera is 5x as numerous as Homo. However if you look at population Homo is 40,000-50,000x as numerous as Panthera.

There are a LOT of bat speicies and lot of rodenta speicies but most aren't that populous (at least compared to say humans).

There are a lot of species of beetles much more than the number of ants, however the most ant species are very big in population.

Thus if you were to look at Species the animal world is basically mostly arthropods. But if you look at population its mostly worms.

is that b/c some are going extint or b/c we're discovering new rodents/other mammals?

That's a lot of the information I wonder about whenever a post like this pops up. Many thanks!

Bat guano was and still is I believe in woman's makeups. Check out bat guano grand canyon it was the largest guano cave ever I believe!

I have no idea

Welcome. Made a mistake. I meant *antarctic krill.