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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alluaud’s skinkFlexiseps alluaudi (Brygoo, 1981) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Yellow SkinkFlexiseps ardouini (Mocquard, 1897) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Crenn’s skinkFlexiseps crenni (Mocquard, 1906) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Elongated skinkFlexiseps elongatus (Angel, 1934) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Johanna's SkinkFlexiseps johannae (Günther, 1880) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Flexiseps melanurus (Günther, 1877) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Flexiseps meva (Miralles, Raselimanana, Rakotomalala, Vences & Vieites, 2011) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gray SkinkFlexiseps ornaticeps (Boulenger, 1896) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Flexiseps stylus (Andreone & Greer, 2002) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tsaratanan SkinkFlexiseps tsaratananensis (Brygoo, 1981) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Florenciella lugubris Mead & De Falla, 1965 | EpigonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| goldspotted killifishFloridichthys carpio (Günther, 1866) | CyprinodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| White-necked JacobinFlorisuga mellivora (Linnaeus, 1758) | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-backed Water TyrantFluvicola albiventer (Spix, 1825) | TyrannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Fluviphylax obscurus Costa, 1996 | PoeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Fluvitrygon oxyrhynchus (Sauvage, 1878) | DasyatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| weed cardinalfishFoa brachygramma (Jenkins, 1903) | ApogonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Foa hyalina (Smith & Radcliffe, 1912) | ApogonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Foa madagascariensis Petit, 1931 | ApogonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Foa winterbottomi Fraser, 2020 | ApogonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Fodiator rostratus (Günther, 1866) | ExocoetidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| spotfin dragonetFoetorepus agassizii (Goode & Bean, 1888) | CallionymidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Foetorepus garthi (Seale, 1940) | CallionymidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Foetorepus phasis (Günther, 1880) | CallionymidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Fojia SkinkFojia bumui Greer & Simon, 1982 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Folia mediterranea (Lohmann, 1899) | OikopleuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Folifer yunnanensis Wang, Zhuang & Gao, 1982 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Fontitrygon geijskesi (Boeseman, 1948) | DasyatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Fontitrygon margarita (Günther, 1870) | DasyatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Fontitrygon margaritella (Compagno & Roberts, 1984) | DasyatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Fontitrygon ukpam (Smith, 1863) | DasyatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| longnose butterflyfishForcipiger longirostris (Broussonet, 1782) | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Forcipiger wanai Allen, Erdmann & Jones Sbrocco, 2012 | ChaetodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hoan’s Crab-eating SnakeFordonia hoani Chau, Nguyen, Dang, Nguyen, Lam, Tran, Cao, Phan, Orlov & Nguyen, 2026 | HomalopsidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black-faced AntthrushFormicarius analis (d'Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837) | FormicariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Rufous-capped AntthrushFormicarius colma Boddaert, 1783 | FormicariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-headed AntthrushFormicarius nigricapillus Ridgway, 1893 | FormicariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Rufous-fronted AntthrushFormicarius rufifrons Blake, 1957 | FormicariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Marsh AntwrenFormicivora acutirostris (Bornschein, Reinert & Teixeira, 1995) | ThamnophilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-hooded AntwrenFormicivora erythronotos Hartlaub, 1852 | ThamnophilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sincora AntwrenFormicivora grantsaui Gonzaga, Carvalhaes & Buzzetti, 2007 | ThamnophilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Southern White-fringed AntwrenFormicivora grisea (Boddaert, 1783) | ThamnophilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Northern White-fringed AntwrenFormicivora intermedia Cabanis, 1847 | ThamnophilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Rusty-backed AntwrenFormicivora rufa (M. Wied-Neuwied, 1831) | ThamnophilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Serra AntwrenFormicivora serrana (Hellmayr, 1929) | ThamnophilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Formosania chenyiyui (Zheng, 1991) | BalitoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Formosania fascicauda (Nichols, 1926) | BalitoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Formosania paucisquama (Zheng, 1981) | BalitoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Formosania tangi Chen, Zhou, Chen & Yang, 2026 | BalitoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Formosania tinkhami (Herre, 1934) | BalitoridaeChordata | 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.