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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gorgasia cotroneii (D'Ancona, 1928) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gorgasia galzini Castle & Randall, 1999 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gorgasia hawaiiensis Randall & Chess, 1980 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gorgasia inferomaculata (Blache, 1977) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gorgasia japonica Abe, Miki & Asai, 1977 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gorgasia maculata Klausewitz & Eibl-Eibesfeldt, 1959 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gorgasia naeocepaea (Böhlke, 1951) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gorgasia preclara Böhlke & Randall, 1981 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| peppered garden eelGorgasia punctata Meek & Hildebrand, 1923 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gorgasia sillneri Klausewitz, 1962 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gorgasia taiwanensis Shao, 1990 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gorgocephalus kyphosi Manter, 1966 | GorgocephalidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gorgoleptis spiralis J. H. McLean, 1988 | LepetodrilidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Venus' fanGorgonia flabellum Linnaeus, 1758 | GorgoniidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gorgonia flavescens Kükenthal, 1924 | GorgoniidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gorgonia reticulum Pallas, 1766 | GorgoniidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gorgoniapolynoe cairnsi Pettibone, 1991 | PolynoidaeAnnelida | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gorgoniapolynoe muzikae Pettibone, 1991 | PolynoidaeAnnelida | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gorgonisis elyakovi Alderslade, 1998 | MopseidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gorgonocephalus caputmedusae (Linnaeus, 1758) | GorgonocephalidaeEchinodermata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gorgonocephalus diomedeae Lütken & Mortensen, 1899 | GorgonocephalidaeEchinodermata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gorgonocephalus dolichodactylus Döderlein, 1911 | GorgonocephalidaeEchinodermata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gorgonocephalus sundanus Döderlein, 1927 | GorgonocephalidaeEchinodermata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gorgonorhynchus albocinctus Kajihara, 2015 | LineidaeNemertea | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gorgorhynchoides epinepheli Wang, 1986 | RhadinorhynchidaeAcanthocephala | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Goriella sandroi Moolenbeek, 2008 | EulimidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eastern GorillaGorilla beringei Matschie, 1903 | HominidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Western GorillaGorilla gorilla (Savage & Wyman, 1847) | HominidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gorjanovicia ugarensis Slišković, 1975 | RadiolitidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Gorogobius stevcici Kovačić & Schliewen, 2008 | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gorytocephalus plecostomorum Nickol & Thatcher, 1971 | NeoechinorhynchidaeAcanthocephala | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Goslineria callosa Á. Valdés, 2001 | DorididaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gosseletina callosa (de Koninck, 1843) | GosseletinidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Gosztonyia antarctica Matallanas, 2009 | ZoarcidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gothicispira marshalli P. A. Maxwell, 1988 | NewtoniellidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Gotlandechinus balticus Regnéll, 1956 | EchinocystitidaeEchinodermata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Gotlandites slitensis Bergman, 1987 | PolychaetaAnnelida | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Gotocotyla acanthura (Parona & Perugia, 1896) Meserve, 1938 | GotocotylidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gotocotyla africanensis Hayward & Rohde, 1999 | GotocotylidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gotocotyla bivaginalis (Ramalingam, 1961) Young, 1970 | GotocotylidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gotocotyla heapae Hayward & Rohde, 1999 | GotocotylidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gotocotyla niphonii Hayward & Rohde, 1999 | GotocotylidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gotocotyla queenslandici Hayward & Rohde, 1999 | GotocotylidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gouania adriatica Wagner, Kovačić & Koblmüller, 2020 | GobiesocidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gouania hofrichteri Wagner, Kovačić & Koblmüller, 2020 | GobiesocidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gouania orientalis Wagner, Kovačić & Koblmüller, 2020 | GobiesocidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gouania pigra (Nardo, 1827) | GobiesocidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gouania willdenowi (Risso, 1810) | GobiesocidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Goudemandites langsonensis Shigeta & Nguyen, 2014 | PalaeophyllitidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Goudemandites sinensis Brühwiler & Bucher, 2012 | PalaeophyllitidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
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.