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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sultan's Cuckoo-DoveMacropygia doreya Bonaparte, 1854 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ruddy Cuckoo-DoveMacropygia emiliana Bonaparte, 1854 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Flores Sea Cuckoo-DoveMacropygia macassariensis Wallace, 1865 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Spot-breasted Cuckoo-DoveMacropygia mackinlayi E. P. Ramsay, 1878 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bar-necked Cuckoo-DoveMacropygia magna Wallace, 1864 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Barusan Cuckoo-DoveMacropygia modiglianii Salvadori, 1887 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bar-tailed Cuckoo-DoveMacropygia nigrirostris Salvadori, 1876 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Brown Cuckoo-DoveMacropygia phasianella (Temminck, 1821) | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Little Cuckoo-DoveMacropygia ruficeps (Temminck, 1835) | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Andaman Cuckoo-DoveMacropygia rufipennis Blyth, 1846 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Philippine Cuckoo-DoveMacropygia tenuirostris Bonaparte, 1854 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tanimbar Cuckoo-DoveMacropygia timorlaoensis A. B. Meyer, 1884 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Barred Cuckoo-DoveMacropygia unchall (Wagler, 1827) | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| slender snipefishMacroramphosus gracilis (Lowe, 1839) | CentriscidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Macroramphosus sagifue Jordan & Starks, 1902 | CentriscidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| longspine snipefishMacroramphosus scolopax (Linnaeus, 1758) | CentriscidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Macrorhamphosodes platycheilus Fowler, 1934 | TriacanthodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Namib Round-eared SengiMacroscelides flavicaudatus Lundholm, 1955 | MacroscelididaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Etendeka Round-eared SengiMacroscelides micus Dumbacher & Rathbun, 2014 | MacroscelididaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Karoo Round-eared SengiMacroscelides proboscideus (Shaw, 1800) | MacroscelididaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Macrosmia phalacra Merrett, Sazonov & Shcherbachev, 1983 | MacrouridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Grey LongbillMacrosphenus concolor (Hartlaub, 1857) | MacrosphenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Macrospinosa cuja (Hamilton, 1822) | SciaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bastard big-footed mouseMacrotarsomys bastardi Milne-Edwards & G. Grandidier, 1898 | NesomyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Greater Big-footed MouseMacrotarsomys ingens F. Petter, 1959 | NesomyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Greater BilbyMacrotis lagotis (Reid, 1837) | ThylacomyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Lesser BilbyMacrotis leucura (Thomas, 1887) | ThylacomyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Macrotrema caligans (Cantor, 1849) | SynbranchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| California Leaf-nosed BatMacrotus californicus Baird, 1858 | PhyllostomidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Waterhouse's Leaf-nosed BatMacrotus waterhousii Gray, 1843 | PhyllostomidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Inflated whiptailMacrouroides inflaticeps Smith & Radcliffe, 1912 | MacrouridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Macrourus caml McMillan, Iwamoto, Stewart & Smith, 2012 | MacrouridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| ridge scaled rattailMacrourus carinatus (Günther, 1878) | MacrouridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| bigeye grenadierMacrourus holotrachys Günther, 1878 | MacrouridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Whitson's grenadierMacrourus whitsoni (Regan, 1913) | MacrouridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Levantine ViperMacrovipera lebetinus (Linnaeus, 1758) | ViperidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Macrurocyttus acanthopodus Fowler, 1934 | GrammicolepididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lesser MacruromysMacruromys elegans Stein, 1933 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Greater MacruromysMacruromys major Rümmler, 1935 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cape grenadierMacruronus capensis Davies, 1950 | MerlucciidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Macruronus maderensis Maul, 1951 | MerlucciidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Patagonian grenadierMacruronus magellanicus Lönnberg, 1907 | MerlucciidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| New Zealand whiptailMacruronus novaezelandiae (Hector, 1871) | MerlucciidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Macrurulus depressus Schwarzhans, 2019 | MerlucciidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Macrurulus immanis Schwarzhans, 1980 | MerlucciidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Maculabatis ambigua Last, Bogorodsky & Alpermann, 2016 | DasyatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maculabatis arabica Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2016 | DasyatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maculabatis astra (Last, Manjaji-Matsumoto & Pogonoski, 2008) | DasyatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maculabatis bineeshi Manjaji-Matsumoto & Last, 2016 | DasyatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maculabatis gerrardi (Gray, 1851) | DasyatidaeChordata | 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.