THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE
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.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Black Crowned CraneBalearica pavonina (Linnaeus, 1758) | GruidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Grey Crowned CraneBalearica regulorum (E. T. Bennett, 1834) | GruidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Balebreviceps hillmani Largen & Drewes, 1989 | BrevicipitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Baliodryas steinbachi (Boulenger, 1905) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Malayan Spotted-winged Fruit BatBalionycteris seimundi Kloss, 1921 | PteropodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| orange-lined triggerfishBalistapus undulatus (Park, 1797) | BalistidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| finescale triggerfishBalistes polylepis Steindachner, 1876 | BalistidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Balistes punctatus Gmelin, 1789 | BalistidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| clown triggerfishBalistoides conspicillum (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) | BalistidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| titan triggerfishBalistoides viridescens (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) | BalistidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Balitora burmanica Hora, 1932 | BalitoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Balitora chipkali Kumkar, Katwate, Raghavan & Dahanukar, 2016 | BalitoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Balitora dehouensis Lei, Pu & Yang, 2025 | BalitoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Balitora eddsi Conway & Mayden, 2010 | BalitoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Balitora elongata Chen & Li, 1985 | BalitoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Balitora kwangsiensis (Fang, 1930) | BalitoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Balitora laticauda Bhoite, Jadhav & Dahanukar, 2012 | BalitoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Balitora ludongensis Liu & Chen, 2012 | BalitoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Balitora meridionalis Kottelat, 1988 | BalitoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Balitora nantingensis Chen, Cui & Yang, 2005 | BalitoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Balitora tchangi Zheng, 1982 | BalitoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Balitora tiandengensis Nong & Wei, 2026 | BalitoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Balitoropsis zollingeri (Bleeker, 1853) | BalitoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| blue breamBallerus ballerus (Linnaeus, 1758) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ballerus sapa (Pallas, 1814) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Balroglanis macracanthus (Soares-Porto, 2000) | AuchenipteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Balroglanis schultzi (Rössel, 1962) | AuchenipteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bambradon laevis (Nyström, 1887) | BembridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Taiwan Bamboo PartridgeBambusicola sonorivox Gould, 1863 | PhasianidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Lesser Bandicoot RatBandicota bengalensis (Gray, 1835) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bangana almorae (Chaudhuri, 1912) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bangana brevirostris Liu & Zhou, 2009 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bangana devdevi (Hora, 1936) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bangana diplostoma (Heckel, 1838) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bangana sinkleri (Fowler, 1934) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bangana tonkinensis (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1934) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bangana xanthogenys (Pellegrin & Chevey, 1936) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Moss-backed TanagerBangsia edwardsi (D. G. Elliot, 1865) | ThraupidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Golden-chested TanagerBangsia rothschildi (Berlepsch, 1897) | ThraupidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Banjos aculeatus Matsunuma & Motomura, 2017 | BanjosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| banjofishBanjos banjos (Richardson, 1846) | BanjosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Banjos peregrinus Matsunuma & Motomura, 2017 | BanjosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Barathrites iris Zugmayer, 1911 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Barathrodemus nasutus Smith & Radcliffe, 1913 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Barathronus algrahami Nielsen, Pogonoski & Appleyard, 2019 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Barathronus bicolor Goode & Bean, 1886 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Barathronus multidens Nielsen, 1984 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| palebelly searsidBarbantus curvifrons (Roule & Angel, 1931) | PlatytroctidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Barbantus elongatus Krefft, 1970 | PlatytroctidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| European BarbastelleBarbastella barbastellus (Schreber, 1774) | VespertilionidaeChordata | 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.