 Scientists have described between 96,660 and 128,843 invertebrate species in Brazil.According to a 2005 estimate by Thomas M. Lewinsohn and Paulo I. Prado, Brazil is home to around 9.5% of all the species and 13.1% of biota found in the world; these figures are likely to be underestimates according to the authors.Enough is known about Brazilian fungi to say with confidence that the number of native species must be very high and very diverse