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: Motacillidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| African Pied WagtailMotacilla aguimp Temminck, 1820 | MotacillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White WagtailMotacilla alba Linnaeus, 1758 | MotacillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cape WagtailMotacilla capensis Linnaeus, 1766 | MotacillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gray WagtailMotacilla cinerea Tunstall, 1771 | MotacillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Citrine WagtailMotacilla citreola Pallas, 1776 | MotacillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Grey-backed WagtailMotacilla clara Sharpe, 1908 | MotacillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Western Yellow WagtailMotacilla flava Linnaeus, 1758 | MotacillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Madagascar WagtailMotacilla flaviventris Hartlaub, 1860 | MotacillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Japanese WagtailMotacilla grandis Sharpe, 1885 | MotacillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Large Pied WagtailMotacilla maderaspatensis Gmelin, 1789 | MotacillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Motacilla samveasnae J. W. Duckworth, Alstrom, P. Davidson, T. D. Evans, C. M. Poole, T. Setha & R. J. Timmins, 2001 | MotacillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alaska WagtailMotacilla tschutschensis Gmelin, 1789 | MotacillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Golden PipitTmetothylacus tenellus (Cabanis, 1878) | MotacillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
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.