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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hildaites clavatus (Sassaroli & Venturi, 2010) | HildoceratidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Hildaites crassus (Guex, 1973) | HildoceratidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Hildaites exilis Venturi, 1973 | HildoceratidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Hildaites levisoni (Simpson, 1843) | HildoceratidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Hildaites picenus Sassaroli & Venturi, 2010 | HildoceratidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Hildaites pionneaui Bécaud, 2006 | HildoceratidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Hildaites planiventris Sassaroli & Venturi, 2012 | HildoceratidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Hildaites spiralis (Sassaroli & Venturi, 2010) | HildoceratidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Hildaites striatus Guex, 1973 | HildoceratidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Hildaites subserpentinum Buckman, 1921 | HildoceratidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Hildebrandtia macrotympanum (Boulenger, 1912) | PtychadenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hildebrandtia ornata (Peters, 1878) | PtychadenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hildebrandtia ornatissima (Barboza du Bocage, 1879) | PtychadenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hildoceras ameuri Rulleau et al., 2001 | HildoceratidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Hildoceras bastiani Fucini, 1905 | HildoceratidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Hildoceras crassum Mitzopoulos, 1930 | HildoceratidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Hildoceras laticosta Bellini, 1900 | HildoceratidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Hiloa variabilis (Pease, 1861) | PhasianellidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kelee shadHilsa kelee (Cuvier, 1829) | DorosomatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hiltrudia globulosa Subai, 2009 | HygromiidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hiltrudia kusmici (Clessin, 1887) | HygromiidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hiltrudia mathildae (Westerlund, 1881) | HygromiidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantoceras lessinianum Faraoni et al., 1997 | HimantoceratidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Himantolophus albinares Maul, 1961 | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantolophus appelii (Clarke, 1878) | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantolophus azurlucens Beebe & Crane, 1947 | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantolophus borealis Kharin, 1984 | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantolophus brevirostris (Regan, 1925) | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantolophus compressus (Osório, 1909) | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantolophus cornifer Bertelsen & Krefft, 1988 | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantolophus crinitus Bertelsen & Krefft, 1988 | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantolophus danae Regan & Trewavas, 1932 | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atlantic football-fishHimantolophus groenlandicus Reinhardt, 1837 | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantolophus kalami Rajeeshkumar, Pietsch & Saravanane, 2022 | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantolophus litoceras Stewart & Pietsch, 2010 | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantolophus macroceras Bertelsen & Krefft, 1988 | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantolophus macroceratoides Bertelsen & Krefft, 1988 | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantolophus mauli Bertelsen & Krefft, 1988 | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantolophus melanolophus Bertelsen & Krefft, 1988 | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantolophus multifurcatus Bertelsen & Krefft, 1988 | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantolophus nigricornis Bertelsen & Krefft, 1988 | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantolophus paucifilosus Bertelsen & Krefft, 1988 | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantolophus pseudalbinares Bertelsen & Krefft, 1988 | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantolophus rostratus (Regan, 1925) | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pacific footballfishHimantolophus sagamius (Tanaka, 1918) | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Himantolophus stewarti Pietsch & Kenaley, 2011 | HimantolophidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopus (Linnaeus, 1758) | RecurvirostridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pied StiltHimantopus leucocephalus Gould, 1837 | RecurvirostridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-backed StiltHimantopus melanurus Vieillot, 1817 | RecurvirostridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black StiltHimantopus novaezelandiae Gould, 1841 | RecurvirostridaeChordata | 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.