Data from: A stepwise assessment of parsimony and fuzzy entropy in species distribution modelling Information for the 5336 10km x 10km UTM cells of continental Spain. The presence and absence of 18 vertebrate species and the values of 86 environmental variables are collected. All the data have been compiled by the research group "Biogeography, Diversity and Conservation" of the Department of Animal Biology of the University of Malaga. The original sources are public and freely accessible. Spreadsheet "Table_Entropy": it contains all the information. Spreadsheet "Column_names": it contains the description of the variables.