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: Gempylidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| striped escolarDiplospinus multistriatus Maul, 1948 | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| domineEpinnula magistralis Poey, 1854 | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Epinnula rex Ho, Motomura, Hata & Chiang, 2022 | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| snake mackerelGempylus serpens Cuvier, 1829 | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| black snake mackerelNealotus tripes Johnson, 1865 | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| American sackfishNeoepinnula americana (Grey, 1953) | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| sackfishNeoepinnula orientalis (Gilchrist & von Bonde, 1924) | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Johnson's scabbardfishNesiarchus nasutus Johnson, 1862 | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Antarctic escolarParadiplospinus antarcticus Andriashev, 1960 | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| slender escolarParadiplospinus gracilis (Brauer, 1906) | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Roudi escolarPromethichthys prometheus (Cuvier, 1832) | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rexea alisae Roberts & Stewart, 1997 | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rexea antefurcata Parin, 1989 | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bengal escolarRexea bengalensis (Alcock, 1894) | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rexea brevilineata Parin, 1989 | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Nakamura's escolarRexea nakamurai Parin, 1989 | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| royal escolarRexea prometheoides (Bleeker, 1856) | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sea gemfishRexea solandri (Cuvier, 1832) | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rexichthys johnpaxtoni Parin & Astakhov, 1987 | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| ScourerRuvettus pretiosus Cocco, 1833 | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| snoekThyrsites atun (Euphrasen, 1791) | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| black snoekThyrsitoides marleyi Fowler, 1929 | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Thyrsitops lepidopoides (Cuvier, 1832) | GempylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tongaichthys robustus Nakamura & Fujii, 1983 | GempylidaeChordata | 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.