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: Atherinidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| big-scale sand smeltAtherina boyeri Risso, 1810 | AtherinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atherina breviceps Valenciennes, 1835 | AtherinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atherina caspia Eichwald, 1831 | AtherinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atherina harringtonensis Goode, 1877 | AtherinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mediterranean sand smeltAtherina hepsetus Linnaeus, 1758 | AtherinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atherina lopeziana Rossignol & Blache, 1961 | AtherinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| sand smeltAtherina presbyter Cuvier, 1829 | AtherinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atherinason hepsetoides (Richardson, 1843) | AtherinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atherinosoma elongatum (Klunzinger, 1879) | AtherinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atherinosoma microstoma (Günther, 1861) | AtherinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kestratherina brevirostris Pavlov, Ivantsoff, Last & Crowley, 1988 | AtherinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kestratherina esox (Klunzinger, 1872) | AtherinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Leptatherina presbyteroides (Richardson, 1843) | AtherinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Leptatherina wallacei (Prince, Ivantsoff & Potter, 1982) | AtherinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Toroatherina toroa Schwarzhans, 2019 | AtherinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
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.