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 |
|---|---|---|
| Caecilia albiventris Daudin, 1803 | CaeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caecilia armata Dunn, 1942 | CaeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caecilia atelolepis Fernández-Roldán, Lynch & Medina-Rangel, 2023 | CaeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caecilia caribea Dunn, 1942 | CaeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caecilia corpulenta Taylor, 1968 | CaeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caecilia crassisquama Taylor, 1968 | CaeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caecilia dunni Hershkovitz, 1938 | CaeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caecilia flavopunctata Roze & Solano, 1963 | CaeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caecilia goweri Fernández-Roldán & Lynch, 2021 | CaeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caecilia isthmica Cope, 1877 | CaeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caecilia macrodonta Fernández-Roldán, Lynch & Medina-Rangel, 2023 | CaeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caecilia mertensi Taylor, 1973 | CaeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caecilia nigricans Boulenger, 1902 | CaeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caecilia pachynema Günther, 1859 | CaeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caecilia subnigricans Dunn, 1942 | CaeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caecilia tenuissima Taylor, 1973 | CaeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caecilia thompsoni Boulenger, 1902 | CaeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caecilia truncata Bock, Arroba-López, Velez-Giler, Moreira, Wiedebusch, Neira-Salamea, Wilkinson, Fuchs et al., 2024 | CaeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caecilia volcani Taylor, 1969 | CaeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caecobarbus geertsii Boulenger, 1921 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caecocypris basimi Banister & Bunni, 1980 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caecogobius personatus Larson & Husana, 2018 | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caelatoglanis zonatus Ng & Kottelat, 2005 | ErethistidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caenagnesia bocki Ärnbäck-Christie-Linde, 1938 | AgneziidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Andean CaenolestidCaenolestes condorensis Albuja & Patterson, 1996 | CaenolestidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dusky CaenolestidCaenolestes fuliginosus (Tomes, 1863) | CaenolestidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sangay Shrew-opossumCaenolestes sangay Ojala-Barbour et al., 2013 | CaenolestidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Caenotropus labyrinthicus (Kner, 1858) | ChilodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caenotropus maculosus (Eigenmann, 1912) | ChilodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caenotropus schizodon Scharcansky & Lucena, 2007 | ChilodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| blue and gold fusilierCaesio caerulaurea Lacepède, 1801 | CaesionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caesio cuning (Bloch, 1791) | CaesionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caesio idreesi Kar, Mariyambi, Raghavan & Sureshkumar, 2023 | CaesionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| lunar fusilierCaesio lunaris Cuvier, 1830 | CaesionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caesio striata Rüppell, 1830 | CaesionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caesio suevica Klunzinger, 1884 | CaesionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| yellow and blueback fusilierCaesio teres Seale, 1906 | CaesionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| variable-lined fusilierCaesio varilineata Carpenter, 1987 | CaesionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caesio xanthalytos Holleman, Connell & Carpenter, 2013 | CaesionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| yellowback fusilierCaesio xanthonota Bleeker, 1853 | CaesionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caesioperca lepidoptera (Forster, 1801) | AnthiadidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caesioscorpis theagenes Whitley, 1945 | CaesioscorpididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caesoris novaecaledoniae (Parker, 1926) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caffrogobius dubius (Smith, 1959) | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caffrogobius gilchristi (Boulenger, 1898) | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caffrogobius natalensis (Günther, 1874) | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caffrogobius nudiceps (Valenciennes, 1837) | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caffrogobius saldanha (Barnard, 1927) | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caiapobrycon tucurui Malabarba & Vari, 2000 | StevardiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Common caimanCaiman crocodilus (Linnaeus, 1758) | AlligatoridaeChordata | 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.