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 |
|---|---|---|
| longjaw mudsuckerGillichthys mirabilis Cooper, 1864 | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| shortjaw mudsuckerGillichthys seta (Ginsburg, 1938) | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gilloblennius abditus Hardy, 1986 | TripterygiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gilloblennius tripennis (Forster, 1801) | TripterygiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gilquinia minor Beveridge & Justine, 2006 | GilquiniidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gilquinia squali (Fabricius, 1794) Dollfus, 1930 | GilquiniidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ginaia munda (Sturany, 1894) | HydrobiidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gingicithara lyrica (Reeve, 1846) | MangeliidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gingicithara pessulata (Reeve, 1846) | MangeliidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ginglymostoma unami Del Moral-Flores, Ramírez-Antonio, Angulo & Pérez-Ponce de León, 2015 | GinglymostomatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ginsburgites americanus Bucher, 1992 | BalatonitidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Giovaraites massiliae Frau et al., 2016 | HeteroceratidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| GiraffeGiraffa camelopardalis (Linnaeus, 1758) | GiraffidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Southern GiraffeGiraffa giraffa (von Schreber, 1784) | GiraffidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Reticulated GiraffeGiraffa reticulata de Winton, 1899 | GiraffidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Masai GiraffeGiraffa tippelskirchi Matschie, 1898 | GiraffidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Giraliaster bellissae Foster & Philip, 1978 | PseudholasteridaeEchinodermata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Giraliaster jubileensis Foster & Philip, 1978 | PseudholasteridaeEchinodermata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Girardia anceps (Kenk, 1930) | DugesiidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardia arndti Marcus, 1946 | DugesiidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardia barbarae (Mitchell & Kawakatsu, 1973) | DugesiidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardia biapertura Sluys, 1997 | DugesiidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardia bonaerensis (Moretto, 1996) | DugesiidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardia cameliae (Fuhrmann, 1912) | DugesiidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardia desiderensis Souza & Leal-Zanchet, 2016 | DugesiidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Girardia festai (Borelli, 1898) | DugesiidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardia glandulosa (Kenk, 1930) | DugesiidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardia graffi (Weiss, 1909) | DugesiidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardia guatemalensis (Mitchell & Kawakatsu, 1973) | DugesiidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardia jugosa Sluys, 2005 | DugesiidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardia longistriata (Fuhrmann, 1912) | DugesiidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardia mckenziei (Mitchell & Kawakatsu, 1973) | DugesiidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardia multidiverticulata Souza, Morais, Cordeiro & Leal-Zanchet, 2015 | DugesiidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardia nonatoi (Marcus, 1946) | DugesiidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardia rincona (Marcus, 1954) | DugesiidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardia sanchezi Hyman, 1955 | DugesiidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardia schubarti (Marcus, 1946) | DugesiidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardia typhlomexicana (Mitchell & Kawakatsu, 1973) | DugesiidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardinichthys ireneae Radda & Meyer, 2003 | GoodeidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Darkedged SplitfinGirardinichthys multiradiatus (Meek, 1904) | GoodeidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chapultepec SplitfinGirardinichthys viviparus (Bustamante, 1837) | GoodeidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardinus creolus Garman, 1895 | PoeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardinus denticulatus Garman, 1895 | PoeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardinus falcatus (Eigenmann, 1903) | PoeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardinus metallicus Poey, 1854 | PoeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardinus microdactylus Rivas, 1944 | PoeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girardinus uninotatus Poey, 1860 | PoeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girella albostriata Steindachner, 1898 | KyphosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girella cyanea MacLeay, 1881 | KyphosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Girella elevata MacLeay, 1881 | KyphosidaeChordata | 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.