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 |
|---|---|---|
| Afrixalus schneideri (Boettger, 1889) | HyperoliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Afrixalus septentrionalis Schiøtz, 1974 | HyperoliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Afrixalus spinifrons (Cope, 1862) | HyperoliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Afrixalus stuhlmanni (Pfeffer, 1893) | HyperoliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Afrixalus sylvaticus Schiøtz, 1974 | HyperoliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Afrixalus uluguruensis (Barbour & Loveridge, 1928) | HyperoliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Afrixalus upembae (Laurent, 1941) | HyperoliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Afrixalus vibekensis Schiøtz, 1967 | HyperoliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Afrixalus vittiger (Peters, 1876) | HyperoliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Afrixalus weidholzi (Mertens, 1938) | HyperoliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Afrixalus wittei (Laurent, 1941) | HyperoliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| African Rock GeckoAfroedura africana (Boulenger, 1888) | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Amatola Flat GeckoAfroedura amatolica (Hewitt, 1925) | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bogert's Rock GeckoAfroedura bogerti Loveridge, 1944 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Broadley’s Rock GeckoAfroedura broadleyi Jacobsen, Kuhn, Jackman & Bauer, 2014 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Iona Flat GeckoAfroedura donveae Branch, Schmitz, Lobón-Rovira, Baptista, António & Conradie, 2021 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Afroedura gorongosa Branch, Guyton, Schmitz, Barej, Naskrecki, Farooq, Verburgt & Rödel, 2017 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Granite Rock GeckoAfroedura granitica Jacobsen, Kuhn, Jackman & Bauer, 2014 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Haacke’s Flat GeckoAfroedura haackei Onderstall, 1984 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hall’s Flat GeckoAfroedura halli (Hewitt, 1935) | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cape Rock GeckoAfroedura hawequensis Mouton & Mostet, 1985 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Inland Rock GeckoAfroedura karroica (Hewitt, 1925) | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lang’s Flat GeckoAfroedura langi (Fitzsimons, 1930) | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Leolo Rock GeckoAfroedura leoloensis Jacobsen, Kuhn, Jackman & Bauer, 2014 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Loveridge’s Rock GeckoAfroedura loveridgei Broadley, 1963 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Major Rock GeckoAfroedura major Onderstall, 1984 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maripi Rock GeckoAfroedura maripi Jacobsen, Kuhn, Jackman & Bauer, 2014 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Marley’s Flat GeckoAfroedura marleyi (Fitzsimons, 1930) | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Multipored Rock GeckoAfroedura multiporis (Hewitt, 1925) | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Namaqua Flat GeckoAfroedura namaquensis (Fitzsimons, 1938) | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Drakensberg Rock GeckoAfroedura nivaria (Boulenger, 1894) | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Otjihipa Flat GeckoAfroedura otjihipa Conradie, Schmitz, Lobón-Rovira, Becker, Vaz-Pinto & Hauptfleisch, 2022 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pienaar’s Rock GeckoAfroedura pienaari Jacobsen, Kuhn, Jackman & Bauer, 2014 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pondo Flat GeckoAfroedura pondolia (Hewitt, 1925) | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pongola Rock GeckoAfroedura pongola Jacobsen, Kuhn, Jackman & Bauer, 2014 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bocoio Flat GeckoAfroedura pundomontana Conradie, Schmitz, Lobón-Rovira, Becker, Vaz-Pinto & Hauptfleisch, 2022 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rondavels Rock GeckoAfroedura rondavelica Jacobsen, Kuhn, Jackman & Bauer, 2014 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Afroedura rupestris Jacobsen, Kuhn, Jackman & Bauer, 2014 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Queenstown Rock GeckoAfroedura tembulica (Hewitt, 1926) | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| African Rock GeckoAfroedura tirasensis Haacke, 1965 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Limpopo Flat GeckoAfroedura transvaalica (Hewitt, 1925) | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Waterberg Rock GeckoAfroedura waterbergensis Jacobsen, Kuhn, Jackman & Bauer, 2014 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Angolan Flat GeckoAfroedura wulfhaackei Branch, Schmitz, Lobón-Rovira, Baptista, António & Conradie, 2021 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Marbled leaf-toed geckoAfrogecko porphyreus (Daudin, 1802) | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Afronandus sheljuzhkoi (Meinken, 1954) | PolycentridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| African Brown Water SnakeAfronatrix anoscopus (Cope, 1861) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Afronemacheilus abyssinicus (Boulenger, 1902) | NemacheilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Afronemacheilus kaffa Prokofiev & Golubtsov, 2013 | NemacheilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Banana BatAfronycteris nanus (Peters, 1852) | VespertilionidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Congo PeacockAfropavo congensis Chapin, 1936 | PhasianidaeChordata | 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.