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 |
|---|---|---|
| Botryllus gaiae Brunetti, 2020 | StyelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Botryllus horridus Saito & Okuyama, 2003 | StyelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Botryllus humilis Monniot C., 1988 | StyelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Botryllus japonicus (Oka, 1931) | StyelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Botryllus lambertorum Palomino-Alvarez, Nydam, Rocha & Simões, 2022 | StyelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Botryllus maeandrius (Sluiter, 1898) | StyelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Botryllus magnus Ritter, 1901 | StyelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Botryllus perspicuum Herdman, 1886 | StyelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Botryllus planus (Van Name, 1902) | StyelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Botryllus renierii (Lamarck, 1815) | StyelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Botryllus rosaceus Savigny, 1816 | StyelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Botryllus scalaris Saito & Mukai, 1981 | StyelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Botryllus tuberatus Ritter & Forsyth, 1917 | StyelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Boulengerella cuvieri (Spix & Agassiz, 1829) | CtenoluciidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Boulengerella lateristriga (Boulenger, 1895) | CtenoluciidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Boulengerella xyrekes Vari, 1995 | CtenoluciidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Boulengeromyrus knoepffleri Taverne & Géry, 1968 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Boulengerula boulengeri Tornier, 1896 | HerpelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulengerula endauensis Malonza & Wasonga, 2024 | HerpelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulengerula fischeri Nussbaum & Hinkel, 1994 | HerpelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulengerula niedeni Müller, Measey, Loader & Malonza, 2005 | HerpelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys baishanzuensis (Wu, Li, Liu, Wang & Wu, 2020) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys binchuanensis (Ye & Fei, 1995) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys boettgeri (Boulenger, 1899) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys brachykolos (Inger & Romer, 1961) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys caobangensis (Nguyen, Pham, Nguyen, Luong & Ziegler, 2020) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys caudoprocta (Shen, 1994) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys changyangensis Li, Shi, Liu, Zhao, Gao & Wang, 2025 | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys cheni (Wang & Liu in Wang, Zhao, Yang, Zhou, Chen & Liu, 2014) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys chishuiensis (Xu, Li, Liu, Wei & Wang, 2020) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys congjiangensis (Luo, Wang, Wang, Lu, Wang, Deng & Zhou, 2021) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys dongguanensis (J. Wang & Y. Y. Wang in J. Wang et al., 2019) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys dupanglingensis Xiao & Mo, 2025 | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys elongata Zeng, Wang, Chen, Xiao, Zhan, Li & Lin, 2024 | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys fansipanensis (Tapley, Cutajar, Mahony, Nguyen, Dau, Luong, Le, Nguyen, Nguyen, Portway, Luong & Rowley, 2018) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys fengshunensis Wang, Zeng, Lyu & Wang, 2022 | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys frigida (Tapley, Cutajar, Nguyen, Portway, Mahony, Nguyen, Harding, Luong & Rowley, 2021) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys gaolanensis Song, Wang, Qi, Wang & Wang, 2024 | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys hungtai Wang, Zeng, Lyu, Xiao & Wang, 2022 | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys insularis (Wang, Liu, Lyu, Zeng & Wang, 2017) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys jingdongensis (Fei & Ye in Fei, Ye & Huang, 1983) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys jiulianensis (J. Wang, Zeng, Lyu & Y. Y. Wang in Wang et al., 2019) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys kuatunensis (Pope, 1929) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys liboensis (Zhang, Li, Xiao, Li, Pan, Wang, Zhang & Zhou, 2017) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys lichun Lin, Chen, Li, Peng, Zeng & Wang, 2024 | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys lini (Wang & Yang in Wang, Zhao, Yang, Zhou, Chen & Liu, 2014) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys lishuiensis (Wang, Liu & Jiang in Wang, Liu, Jiang, Jin, Xu & Wu, 2017) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys lushuiensis (Shi, Li, Zhu, Jiang, Jiang & Wang, 2021) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys mirabilis (Lyu, Wang & Zhao in Lyu, Li, Zeng et al., 2020) | MegophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Boulenophrys obesa (Wang, Li & Zhao in Li, Jin, Zhao, Liu, Wang & Pang, 2014) | MegophryidaeChordata | 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.