Back التوزع العالمي Arabic Kosmopolit növlər Azerbaijani Космополит (биология) Bulgarian Kosmopolitsko rasprostranjenje BS Cosmopolitisme (biologia) Catalan Kosmopolit Czech Kosmopolit (Biologie) German Cosmopolitan distribution English Kosmopolita distribuo (biologio) Esperanto Distribución cosmopolita Spanish
In biology, an organism is said to be cosmopolitan (or cosmopolite) if it can be found almost anywhere on the Earth.
Examples include:
- Humans
- House dust mite
- Red admiral (painted lady butterfly)
- Many cetacean species, including the orca
- Brown rat
- Peregrine falcon