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 |
|---|---|---|
| Heteroconger congroides (D'Ancona, 1928) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cortez garden eelHeteroconger digueti (Pellegrin, 1923) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteroconger enigmaticus Castle & Randall, 1999 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteroconger fugax Koeda, Fujii & Motomura, 2018 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteroconger guttatus Allen, Erdmann & Mongdong, 2020 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteroconger hassi (Klausewitz & Eibl-Eibesfeldt, 1959) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteroconger klausewitzi (Eibl-Eibesfeldt & Köster, 1983) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteroconger lentiginosus Böhlke & Randall, 1981 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| brown garden eelHeteroconger longissimus Günther, 1870 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| yellow garden eelHeteroconger luteolus Smith, 1989 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteroconger mataura Schwarzhans, Lee & Gard, 2017 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Heteroconger mercyae Allen & Erdmann, 2009 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteroconger obscurus (Klausewitz & Eibl-Eibesfeldt, 1959) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| speckled garden eelHeteroconger pellegrini Castle, 1999 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteroconger perissodon Böhlke & Randall, 1981 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteroconger polyzona Bleeker, 1868 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteroconger taylori Castle & Randall, 1995 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteroconger tomberua Castle & Randall, 1999 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteroconger tricia Castle & Randall, 1999 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rio de Janeiro TeiidHeterodactylus imbricatus Spix, 1825 | GymnophthalmidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lund's TeiidHeterodactylus lundii Reinhardt & Lütken, 1862 | GymnophthalmidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heterodactylus septentrionalis Rodrigues, de Freitas & Silva, 2009 | GymnophthalmidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mexican Hognose SnakeHeterodon kennerlyi Kennicott, 1860 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dusty Hognose Snake [gloydi]Heterodon nasicus Baird & Girard, 1852 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eastern Hognose SnakeHeterodon platirhinos Latreille, 1801 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Southern Hognose SnakeHeterodon simus (Linnaeus, 1766) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heterodonax ludwigii (Krauss, 1848) | PsammobiidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pacific false-bean clamHeterodonax pacificus (Conrad, 1837) | PsammobiidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heterodonax parvus Dunker, 1853 | PsammobiidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cestracion sharkHeterodontus japonicus Miklouho-Maclay & MacLeay, 1884 | HeterodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mexican horn sharkHeterodontus mexicanus Taylor & Castro-Aguirre, 1972 | HeterodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heterodontus omanensis Baldwin, 2005 | HeterodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| barred bull-head sharkHeterodontus zebra (Gray, 1831) | HeterodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heterogen longispira (E. A. Smith, 1886) | ViviparidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hispid Pocket GopherHeterogeomys (Heterogeomys) hispidus (Le Conte, 1852) | GeomyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Big Pocket GopherHeterogeomys (Heterogeomys) lanius Elliot, 1905 | GeomyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Variable Pocket GopherHeterogeomys (Macrogeomys) heterodus (Peters, 1865) | GeomyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Heteroglypta contraria (Deshayes, 1863) | PsammobiidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bush HyraxHeterohyrax brucei (Gray, 1868) | ProcaviidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Heteroliodon fohy Glaw, Vences & Nussbaum, 2005 | PseudoxyrhophiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteroliodon occipitalis (Boulenger, 1896) | PseudoxyrhophiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteromormyrus dolichorhynchus Mutizwa, Kadye, Bragança & Chakona, 2025 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteromormyrus ndauorum Mutizwa, Kadye, Bragança & Chakona, 2025 | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteromormyrus pappenheimi (Boulenger, 1910) | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteromormyrus szaboi (Kramer, van der Bank & Wink, 2004) | MormyridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cape soleHeteromycteris capensis Kaup, 1858 | SoleidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteromycteris matsubarai Ochiai, 1963 | SoleidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteromycteris proboscideus (Chabanaud, 1925) | SoleidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteromyias albispecularis (Salvadori, 1876) | PetroicidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Heteromyias cinereifrons (E. P. Ramsay, 1876) | PetroicidaeChordata | 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.