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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fawn-breasted BrilliantHeliodoxa rubinoides (Bourcier & Mulsant, 1846) | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-throated BrilliantHeliodoxa schreibersii (Bourcier, 1847) | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Velvet-browed BrilliantHeliodoxa xanthogonys Salvin & Godman, 1882 | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| plate coralHeliofungia actiniformis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) | FungiidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blue-tufted StarthroatHeliomaster furcifer (Shaw, 1812) | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Long-billed StarthroatHeliomaster longirostris (Audebert & Vieillot, 1801) | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Stripe-breasted StarthroatHeliomaster squamosus (Temminck, 1823) | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Masked FinfootHeliopais personatus (G. R. Gray, 1849) | HeliornithidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Silky Mole-ratHeliophobius argenteocinereus Peters, 1846 | BathyergidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| SungrebeHeliornis fulica (Boddaert, 1783) | HeliornithidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gambian Sun SquirrelHeliosciurus gambianus (Ogilby, 1835) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mutable Sun SquirrelHeliosciurus mutabilis (Peters, 1852) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Small Sun SquirrelHeliosciurus punctatus (Temminck, 1853) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Red-legged Sun SquirrelHeliosciurus rufobrachium (Waterhouse, 1842) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ruwenzori Sun SquirrelHeliosciurus ruwenzorii (Schwann, 1904) | SciuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| sunray lettuce coralHelioseris cucullata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) | AgariciidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Inti TanagerHeliothraupis oneilli Lane, Aponte, Rheindt, Rosenberg, Schmitt & Terrill, 2021 | ThraupidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-eared FairyHeliothryx auritus (J. F. Gmelin, 1788) | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Purple-crowned FairyHeliothryx barroti (Bourcier, 1843) | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Heliotrygon gomesi Carvalho & Lovejoy, 2011 | PotamotrygonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heliotrygon rosai Carvalho & Lovejoy, 2011 | PotamotrygonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Helisoma kettlemanensis Pilsbry, 1934 | PlanorbidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Helisoma llanerensis (K. van W. Palmer, 1945) | PlanorbidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Helisoma marshalli (R. Arnold, 1909) | PlanorbidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Helisoma sanctaeclarae (Hannibal, 1909) | PlanorbidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Helix asemnis Bourguignat, 1860 | HelicidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Helix borealis Mousson, 1859 | HelicidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Helixotionella rubra (Bretnall, 1922) | OtionellidaeBryozoa | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Helixotionella scutata Cook & Chimonides, 1984 | OtionellidaeBryozoa | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hellenites elegans Guex et al., 2005 | HellenitidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Hellenites subpraematurus Zharnikova, 1985 | HellenitidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Greek Rock LizardHellenolacerta graeca (Bedriaga, 1886) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| White-browed SpinetailHellmayrea gularis (Lafresnaye, 1843) | FurnariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Helluoherpia aegiri Handl & Büchinger, 1996 | DondersiidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Helmetophorus rankini Hartman, 1978 | AcrocirridaeAnnelida | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Helminthoglypta coelata (Bartsch, 1916) | XanthonychidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Helminthoglypta martini (G D. Hanna, 1920) | XanthonychidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Helminthoglypta tudiculata (A. Binney, 1843) | XanthonychidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Helminthope psammobionta Salvini-Plawen, 1991 | RhodopidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Yellowtail Blind SnakeHelminthophis flavoterminatus (Peters, 1858) | AnomalepididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Costa Rica Blind SnakeHelminthophis frontalis (Peters, 1860) | AnomalepididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Preocular Blind SnakeHelminthophis praeocularis Amaral, 1924 | AnomalepididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Worm-eating WarblerHelmitheros vermivorum (J. F. Gmelin, 1789) | ParulidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Guatemala Beaded LizardHeloderma charlesbogerti Campbell & Vannini, 1988 | HelodermatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Río Fuerte Beaded LizardHeloderma exasperatum Bogert & Martin Del Campo, 1956 | HelodermatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mexican Beaded LizardHeloderma horridum (Wiegmann, 1829) | HelodermatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Banded Gila Monster [cinctum]Heloderma suspectum Cope, 1869 | HelodermatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Helodiamea circumfimbria Peñas & Rolán, 2017 | PyramidellidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Helodiamea elevataspira Peñas & Rolán, 2017 | PyramidellidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Helodiamea martinezae Peñas & Rolán, 2017 | PyramidellidaeMollusca | 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.