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 |
|---|---|---|
| Madagascar SnipeGallinago macrodactyla Bonaparte, 1839 | ScolopacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Magellanic SnipeGallinago magellanica (P. P. King, 1828) | ScolopacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Great SnipeGallinago media (Latham, 1787) | ScolopacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Swinhoe's SnipeGallinago megala Swinhoe, 1861 | ScolopacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Wood SnipeGallinago nemoricola Hodgson, 1836 | ScolopacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| African SnipeGallinago nigripennis Bonaparte, 1839 | ScolopacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Noble SnipeGallinago nobilis P. L. Sclater, 1856 | ScolopacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pantanal SnipeGallinago paraguaiae (Vieillot, 1816) | ScolopacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Solitary SnipeGallinago solitaria Hodgson, 1831 | ScolopacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pin-tailed SnipeGallinago stenura (Bonaparte, 1831) | ScolopacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Fuegian SnipeGallinago stricklandii (G. R. Gray, 1845) | ScolopacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Giant SnipeGallinago undulata (Boddaert, 1783) | ScolopacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, 1758) | RallidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tristan GallinuleGallinula nesiotis P. L. Sclater, 1861 | RallidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Samoan MoorhenGallinula pacifica (Hartlaub & Finsch, 1871) | RallidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Makira MoorhenGallinula silvestris (Mayr, 1933) | RallidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dusky MoorhenGallinula tenebrosa Gould, 1846 | RallidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gallinympha walleri Perrichot & Engel, 2011 | PygidicranidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Gallio gallio (Mabille, 1904) | HesperiidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galliocookia fagei Ribaut, 1955 | TrichopolydesmidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Galliphilopterus brunneopectus Emerson & Elbel, 1957 | PhilopteridaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| WekaGallirallus australis (Sparrman, 1786) | RallidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ruwenzori TuracoGallirex johnstoni Sharpe, 1901 | MusophagidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Purple-crested TuracoGallirex porphyreolophus (Vigors, 1831) | MusophagidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gallitobius ethophor Chamberlin, 1933 | LithobiidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gallitobius ricanus Chamberlin, 1933 | LithobiidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gallobelgicus typicus Distant, 1906 | ReduviidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Galloisiana chujoi Gurney, 1961 | GrylloblattidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Galloisiana kosuensis Namkung, 1974 | GrylloblattidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Galloisiana nipponensis (Caudell & King, 1924) | GrylloblattidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Galloisiana sinensis Wang, 1987 | GrylloblattidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Galloisiana sofiae Szeptycki, 1987 | GrylloblattidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ceylon SpurfowlGalloperdix bicalcarata (J. R. Forster, 1781) | PhasianidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Painted SpurfowlGalloperdix lunulata (Valenciennes, 1825) | PhasianidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Red SpurfowlGalloperdix spadicea (J. F. Gmelin, 1789) | PhasianidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gallorhynchus elegans Artois & Schockaert, 2017 | PolycystididaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Atlantic LizardGallotia atlantica (Peters & Doria, 1882) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gallotia auaritae Mateo, Garcia-Marquez, López-Jurado & Barahona, 2001 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gomera Giant LizardGallotia bravoana Hutterer, 1985 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Boettger’s LizardGallotia caesaris (Lehrs, 1914) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gallot's LizardGallotia galloti (Oudart, 1839) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Canarian Spotted LizardGallotia intermedia Barbadillo, Lacoba, Pérez-Mellado, Sancho & López-Jurado, 1999 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Simony's LizardGallotia simonyi (Steindachner, 1889) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gran Canaria Giant LizardGallotia stehlini (Schenkel, 1901) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gallowayia picta Bouček, 1988 | EulophidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Red JunglefowlGallus gallus (Linnaeus, 1758) | PhasianidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sri Lanka JunglefowlGallus lafayettii R. Lesson, 1831 | PhasianidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gray JunglefowlGallus sonneratii Temminck, 1813 | PhasianidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Green JunglefowlGallus varius (Shaw, 1798) | PhasianidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Galomecalpa megaloplaca (Meyrick, 1932) | TortricidaeArthropoda | 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.