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Disputed Statements

Claims this atlas currently marks as unsettled or as tested and found false. A debated fact is one scholars hold competing positions on; a debunked one has been checked against the record and found not to hold. Both are kept in view rather than quietly smoothed over, with the reasoning that put each one where it stands.

251 statements.

Fin Whale, Population Estimate100000.000000

Fin Whale, Species

Standing

Concerns Population Estimate

Currently States 100000.000000

Wikipedia cites a 2018 estimate ranging from 100,000 to 140,000 mature individuals worldwide; the lower, more conservative bound is recorded here rather than a false precise midpoint.

Source Fin Whale (Wikipedia)

Fiordland Crested Penguin, Population Estimate5000.000000

Fiordland Crested Penguin, Species

Standing

Concerns Population Estimate

Currently States 5000.000000

A 1990s survey counted 2,500 breeding pairs, roughly 5,000 individuals, but the source describes this count as likely an underestimate; no more recent total was found.

Source Fiordland Crested Penguin (Wikipedia)

Firmicutes, Member Species/Taxa Count30000

Firmicutes, Taxa

Standing

Concerns Member Species/Taxa Count

Currently States 30000

Approximate described-species (or, for a genus, described-taxon) count; continually revised as species are newly described, reclassified or synonymized.

Source Catalogue of Life

Freshwater, Annual Precipitation (mm)1143.000000

Freshwater, Biomes

Standing

Concerns Annual Precipitation (mm)

Currently States 1143.000000

1143mm is the midpoint of the cited source's stated 10 to 80 inch (254mm to 2032mm) annual range. Freshwater habitats exist on every continent and in every climate, so no single figure is fully meaningful, matching this entity's own description that the biome carries no single characteristic rainfall total.

Source Freshwater Biome (Earth Eclipse)

Freshwater Marsh, Typical High Temperature (C)23.900000

Freshwater Marsh, Biomes

Standing

Concerns Typical High Temperature (C)

Currently States 23.900000

23.9C converts the source 75F summer figure. Freshwater marshes occur from temperate North America to the tropics, so no single figure is fully meaningful; the same general freshwater range already used on Freshwater, Wetlands and Fen is applied here.

Source Climate In A Freshwater Biome (Sciencing)

Freshwater Marsh, Typical Low Temperature (C)1.700000

Freshwater Marsh, Biomes

Standing

Concerns Typical Low Temperature (C)

Currently States 1.700000

1.7C converts the source 35F winter figure. Same caveat as temperature-high-c.

Source Climate In A Freshwater Biome (Sciencing)

Freshwater Marsh, Annual Precipitation (mm)1143.000000

Freshwater Marsh, Biomes

Standing

Concerns Annual Precipitation (mm)

Currently States 1143.000000

1143mm is the midpoint of the cited source stated 10 to 80 inch range; freshwater marshes occur across every climate zone so no single figure is fully meaningful.

Source Freshwater Biome (Earth Eclipse)

Fringillidae, Member Species/Taxa Count230

Fringillidae, Taxa

Standing

Concerns Member Species/Taxa Count

Currently States 230

Approximate described-species (or, for a genus, described-taxon) count; continually revised as species are newly described, reclassified or synonymized.

Source Catalogue of Life

Fungi, Member Species/Taxa Count148000

Fungi, Taxa

Standing

Concerns Member Species/Taxa Count

Currently States 148000

Approximate described-species count; continually revised as species are newly described, reclassified or synonymized.

Source Catalogue of Life

Galliformes, Member Species/Taxa Count300

Galliformes, Taxa

Standing

Concerns Member Species/Taxa Count

Currently States 300

Approximate described-species (or, for a genus, described-taxon) count; continually revised as species are newly described, reclassified or synonymized.

Source Catalogue of Life

Gastropoda, Member Species/Taxa Count65000

Gastropoda, Taxa

Standing

Concerns Member Species/Taxa Count

Currently States 65000

Approximate described-species (or, for a genus, described-taxon) count; continually revised as species are newly described, reclassified or synonymized.

Source Catalogue of Life

Ginkgophyta, Member Species/Taxa Count1

Ginkgophyta, Taxa

Standing

Concerns Member Species/Taxa Count

Currently States 1

Approximate described-species (or, for a genus, described-taxon) count; continually revised as species are newly described, reclassified or synonymized.

Source Catalogue of Life

Glomeromycota, Member Species/Taxa Count250

Glomeromycota, Taxa

Standing

Concerns Member Species/Taxa Count

Currently States 250

Approximate described-species (or, for a genus, described-taxon) count; continually revised as species are newly described, reclassified or synonymized.

Source Catalogue of Life

Gray Wolf, Population Estimate300000.000000

Gray Wolf, Species

Standing

Concerns Population Estimate

Currently States 300000.000000

Estimates of the global gray wolf population range roughly from 200,000 to 250,000 in some tallies to over 300,000 in others, depending on which regional census data is current and how subspecies boundaries are drawn; there is no single coordinated worldwide survey.

Gymnophiona, Member Species/Taxa Count220

Gymnophiona, Taxa

Standing

Concerns Member Species/Taxa Count

Currently States 220

Approximate described-species (or, for a genus, described-taxon) count; continually revised as species are newly described, reclassified or synonymized.

Source Catalogue of Life

Hadal Zone, Annual Precipitation (mm)0.000000

Hadal Zone, Biomes

Standing

Concerns Annual Precipitation (mm)

Currently States 0.000000

This biome is the ocean's deepest trench floors, roughly 6,000 to 11,000 meters down, with no atmospheric contact whatsoever. The surface-blended precipitation figure used on the Marine, Open Ocean, Neritic Zone and Coral Reef biome entities has no physical meaning at trench-floor depth, so 0mm is recorded as the physically honest figure rather than reusing that surface convention here.

Hemiptera, Member Species/Taxa Count80000

Hemiptera, Taxa

Standing

Concerns Member Species/Taxa Count

Currently States 80000

Approximate described-species (or, for a genus, described-taxon) count; continually revised as species are newly described, reclassified or synonymized.

Source Catalogue of Life

Herpestidae, Member Species/Taxa Count34

Herpestidae, Taxa

Standing

Concerns Member Species/Taxa Count

Currently States 34

Approximate described-species (or, for a genus, described-taxon) count; continually revised as species are newly described, reclassified or synonymized.

Source Catalogue of Life

Hirundinidae, Member Species/Taxa Count90

Hirundinidae, Taxa

Standing

Concerns Member Species/Taxa Count

Currently States 90

Approximate described-species (or, for a genus, described-taxon) count; continually revised as species are newly described, reclassified or synonymized.

Source Catalogue of Life

Holothuroidea, Member Species/Taxa Count1700

Holothuroidea, Taxa

Standing

Concerns Member Species/Taxa Count

Currently States 1700

Approximate described-species (or, for a genus, described-taxon) count; continually revised as species are newly described, reclassified or synonymized.

Source Catalogue of Life