A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Apteronotidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Adontosternarchus balaenops (Cope, 1878) | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Adontosternarchus clarkae Mago-Leccia, Lundberg & Baskin, 1985 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Adontosternarchus devenanzii Mago-Leccia, Lundberg & Baskin, 1985 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Adontosternarchus duartei de Santana & Vari, 2012 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Adontosternarchus nebulosus Lundberg & Cox Fernandes, 2007 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Adontosternarchus sachsi (Peters, 1877) | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apteronotus acidops Triques, 2011 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apteronotus albifrons (Linnaeus, 1766) | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apteronotus anu de Santana & Vari, 2013 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apteronotus camposdapazi de Santana & Lehmann A., 2006 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apteronotus caudimaculosus de Santana, 2003 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apteronotus cuchillejo (Schultz, 1949) | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apteronotus eschmeyeri de Santana, Maldonado-Ocampo, Severi & Mendes, 2004 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apteronotus galvisi de Santana, Maldonado-Ocampo & Crampton, 2007 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apteronotus hasemani (Ellis, 1913) | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apteronotus macrolepis (Steindachner, 1881) | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apteronotus macrostomus (Fowler, 1943) | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apteronotus mariae (Eigenmann & Fisher, 1914) | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apteronotus milesi de Santana & Maldonado-Ocampo, 2005 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Apteronotus spurrellii (Regan, 1914) | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Compsaraia compsa (Mago-Leccia, 1994) | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Megadontognathus cuyuniensis Mago-Leccia, 1994 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Melanosternarchus amaru Bernt, Crampton, Orfinger & Albert, 2018 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pariosternarchus amazonensis Albert & Crampton, 2006 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Platyurosternarchus crypticus de Santana & Vari, 2009 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Porotergus apurensis (Fernández-Yépez, 1968) | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Porotergus duende de Santana & Crampton, 2010 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Porotergus ellisi Alonso de Arámburu, 1957 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Porotergus gimbeli Ellis, 1912 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Porotergus gymnotus Ellis, 1912 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Porotergus maroon de Santana et al., 2025 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sternarchella orthos Mago-Leccia, 1994 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sternarchella patriciae Evans, Crampton & Albert, 2017 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sternarchella rex Evans, Crampton & Albert, 2017 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sternarchella schotti (Steindachner, 1868) | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sternarchella sima Starks, 1913 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sternarchogiton labiatus de Santana & Crampton, 2007 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sternarchogiton nattereri (Steindachner, 1868) | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sternarchogiton porcinum Eigenmann & Allen, 1942 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sternarchogiton preto de Santana & Crampton, 2007 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sternarchogiton zuanoni de Santana & Vari, 2010 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sternarchorhamphus muelleri (Steindachner, 1881) | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sternarchorhynchus axelrodi de Santana & Vari, 2010 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sternarchorhynchus britskii Campos-da-Paz, 2000 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sternarchorhynchus caboclo de Santana & Nogueira, 2006 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sternarchorhynchus chaoi de Santana & Vari, 2010 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sternarchorhynchus cramptoni de Santana & Vari, 2010 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sternarchorhynchus curumim de Santana & Crampton, 2006 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sternarchorhynchus curvirostris (Boulenger, 1887) | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sternarchorhynchus freemani de Santana & Vari, 2010 | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.