The rest of the families together contain only about five hundred species.
It contains 4 species, one of which was recently added in the 1987.
Each of these groups contain one or more separate species.
Long held to contain only 2 species, several others have been discovered and described since the 1980s.
It contains 125 to 150 species, or even some 200 according to other authorities.
According to a 2008 estimate, the family contains 1243 species.
Today the garden contains more than 15,000 species of trees and plants.
Thus, a hedge containing six species might be nearly 700 years old, give or take a couple of hundred!
The family is highly diverse, containing around 300 different species of fish.
The group contains 13,000 species, all of which are terrestrial.
