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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gaumer's Spiny Pocket MouseHeteromys gaumeri J. A. Allen & Chapman, 1897 | HeteromyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mexican Spiny Pocket MouseHeteromys irroratus Gray, 1868 | HeteromyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Nelson's Spiny Pocket MouseHeteromys nelsoni Merriam, 1902 | HeteromyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Paraguaná Spiny Pocket MouseHeteromys oasicus Anderson, 2003 | HeteromyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Painted Spiny Pocket MouseHeteromys pictus Thomas, 1893 | HeteromyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Salvin's Spiny Pocket MouseHeteromys salvini Thomas, 1893 | HeteromyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Jaliscan Spiny Pocket MouseHeteromys spectabilis (Genoways, 1971) | HeteromyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ecuadoran Spiny Pocket MouseHeteromys teleus Anderson & Jarrín-Valladares, 2002 | HeteromyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Natal electric rayHeteronarce garmani Regan, 1921 | NarkidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteronarce prabhui Talwar, 1981 | NarkidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black Pilbara GeckoHeteronotia atra Pepper, Doughty, Fujita, Moritz & Keogh, 2013 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bynoe's GeckoHeteronotia binoei (Gray, 1845) | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cave Prickly GeckoHeteronotia spelea (Kluge, 1963) | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Grijalva GambusiaHeterophallus milleri Radda, 1987 | PoeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coatzacoalcos GambusiaHeterophallus rachovii Regan, 1914 | PoeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| White-eared SibiaHeterophasia auricularis (Swinhoe, 1864) | LeiothrichidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Rufous SibiaHeterophasia capistrata (Vigors, 1831) | LeiothrichidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-headed SibiaHeterophasia desgodinsi (Oustalet, 1877) | LeiothrichidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Grey SibiaHeterophasia gracilis (Horsfield, 1840) | LeiothrichidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dark-backed SibiaHeterophasia melanoleuca (Blyth, 1859) | LeiothrichidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Long-tailed SibiaHeterophasia picaoides (Hodgson, 1839) | LeiothrichidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Beautiful SibiaHeterophasia pulchella (Godwin-Austen, 1874) | LeiothrichidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Heterophotus ophistoma Regan & Trewavas, 1929 | StomiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteroplopomus barbatus (Tomiyama, 1934) | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteropneustes fossilis (Bloch, 1794) | HeteropneustidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteropneustes kemratensis (Fowler, 1937) | HeteropneustidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteropneustes longipectoralis Rema Devi & Raghunathan, 1999 | HeteropneustidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteropneustes microps (Günther, 1864) | HeteropneustidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteropneustes nani Hossain, Sarker, Sharifuzzaman & Chowdhury, 2013 | HeteropneustidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| glasseyeHeteropriacanthus cruentatus (Lacepède, 1801) | PriacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Antillean Cave RatHeteropsomys antillensis (Anthony, 1917) | EchimyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Puerto Rican Cave RatHeteropsomys insulans Anthony, 1916 | EchimyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Heteroscarus acroptilus (Richardson, 1846) | LabridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteroschismoides antipodes Scarabino & Caetano, 2008 | EntalinidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heteroscymnoides marleyi Fowler, 1934 | DalatiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scarlet-browed TanagerHeterospingus xanthopygius (P. L. Sclater, 1855) | ThraupidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Heterostigma fagei Monniot C. & Monniot F., 1961 | PyuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heterostigma gonochorica Monniot F., 1965 | PyuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heterostigma mediterranea Pérès, 1958 | PyuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heterostigma melitensis Monniot F. & Monniot C., 1976 | PyuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heterostigma monniotae Virgili, Tanduo, D'Aniello, Fontana, Turon & Crocetta, 2025 | PyuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Little Brown BustardHeterotetrax humilis (Blyth, 1855) | OtididaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Rüppell's KorhaanHeterotetrax rueppelii (Wahlberg, 1856) | OtididaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Heterotilapia buettikoferi (Hubrecht, 1881) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heterotilapia cessiana (Thys van den Audenaerde, 1968) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Heterotis niloticus (Cuvier, 1829) | ArapaimidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gould's ShortwingHeteroxenicus stellatus (Gould, 1868) | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-and-white MonjitaHeteroxolmis dominicana (Vieillot, 1823) | TyrannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mamberano Mud SnakeHeurnia ventromaculata Jong, 1926 | HomalopsidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hexabranchus aureomarginatus Ostergaard, 1955 | HexabranchidaeMollusca | 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.