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 |
|---|---|---|
| Galathowenia africana Kirkegaard, 1959 | OweniidaeAnnelida | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Galathowenia lobopygidiata (Uschakov, 1950) | OweniidaeAnnelida | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Galaticeras harpoceratoides (Gemmellaro, 1884) | LytoceratidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Galaticeras propinquum (Gemmellaro, 1884) | LytoceratidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Galaticeras telegdirothi (Kovacs, 1934) | LytoceratidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| octopus coralGalaxea astreata (Lamarck, 1816) | EuphylliidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| octopus coralGalaxea cryptoramosa Fenner & Veron, 2000 | EuphylliidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| crystal coralGalaxea fascicularis (Linnaeus, 1767) | EuphylliidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| octopus coralGalaxea longisepta Fenner & Veron, 2000 | EuphylliidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias aequipinnis Raadik, 2014 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias brevipinnis Günther, 1866 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias cobitinis McDowall & Waters, 2002 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias depressiceps McDowall & Wallis, 1996 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias divergens Stokell, 1959 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias eldoni McDowall, 1997 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias fasciatus Gray, 1842 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias fontanus Fulton, 1978 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias fuscus Mack, 1936 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias globiceps Eigenmann, 1928 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias gollumoides McDowall & Chadderton, 1999 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias gracilis McDowall, 1967 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias johnstoni Scott, 1936 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias lanceolatus Raadik, 2014 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias macronasus McDowall & Waters, 2003 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias mungadhan Raadik, 2014 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias neocaledonicus Weber & de Beaufort, 1913 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias occidentalis Ogilby, 1899 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias olidus Günther, 1866 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias ornatus Castelnau, 1873 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias parvus Frankenberg, 1968 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias paucispondylus Stokell, 1938 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias pedderensis Frankenberg, 1968 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias platei Steindachner, 1898 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias postvectis Clarke, 1899 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias prognathus Stokell, 1940 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias pullus McDowall, 1997 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias rostratus Klunzinger, 1872 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias supremus Raadik, 2014 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias tantangara Raadik, 2014 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias tanycephalus Fulton, 1978 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias truttaceus Valenciennes, 1846 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias vulgaris Stokell, 1949 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxias zebratus (Castelnau, 1861) | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxiella munda McDowall, 1978 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxiella nigrostriata (Shipway, 1953) | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxiella pusilla (Mack, 1936) | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxiella toourtkoourt Coleman & Raadik, 2015 | GalaxiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galaxitaenia toloi Gil de Pertierra & Semenas, 2005 | TriaenophoridaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galba adela (Cossmann, 1895) | GastropodaMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Alberta fossariaGalba alberta F. C. Baker, 1919 | GastropodaMollusca | 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.