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 |
|---|---|---|
| Heath's Tropical RacerMastigodryas heathii (Cope, 1875) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Salmon-bellied RacerMastigodryas melanolomus (Cope, 1868) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Plee's Tropical RacerMastigodryas pleii (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cope's Tropical RacerMastigodryas pulchriceps (Cope, 1868) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mastigodryas reticulatus (Peters, 1863) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mastigopterus imperator Smith & Radcliffe, 1913 | OphidiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Awash MastomysMastomys awashensis Lavrenchenko, Likhnova & Baskevich, 1998 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Southern African MastomysMastomys coucha (A. Smith, 1834) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Reddish-white MastomysMastomys erythroleucus (Temminck, 1853) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hubert's MastomysMastomys huberti (Wroughton, 1909) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kollmannsperger's MastomysMastomys kollmannspergeri (F. Petter, 1957) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Coucha RatMastomys natalensis (A. Smith, 1834) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dwarf MastomysMastomys pernanus (Kershaw, 1921) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Shortridge's MastomysMastomys shortridgei (St. Leger, 1933) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| sharptail molaMasturus lanceolatus (Liénard, 1840) | MolidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mataeocephalus acipenserinus (Gilbert & Cramer, 1897) | MacrouridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mataeocephalus adustus Smith & Radcliffe, 1912 | MacrouridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mataeocephalus cristatus Sazonov, Shcherbachev & Iwamoto, 2003 | MacrouridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mataeocephalus hyostomus (Smith & Radcliffe, 1912) | MacrouridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mataeocephalus kotlyari Sazonov, Shcherbachev & Iwamoto, 2003 | MacrouridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mataeocephalus tenuicauda (Garman, 1899) | MacrouridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Matanui bathytaton (Hardy, 1989) | TripterygiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Matanui profundum (Fricke & Roberts, 1994) | TripterygiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Matoatoa spannringi Nussbaum, Raxworthy & Pronk, 1998 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Common Giant Plated LizardMatobosaurus validus (Smith, 1849) | GerrhosauridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Matsubaraea fusiformis (Fowler, 1943) | HemerocoetidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Matsubarichthys inusitatus Poss & Johnson, 1991 | AploactinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Matsuichthys aequipinnis (Matsui & Rosenblatt, 1987) | PlatytroctidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mauligobius maderensis (Valenciennes, 1837) | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mauligobius nigri (Günther, 1861) | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maulisia acuticeps Sazonov, 1976 | PlatytroctidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Palegold searsidMaulisia argipalla Matsui & Rosenblatt, 1979 | PlatytroctidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maulisia isaacsi Matsui & Rosenblatt, 1987 | PlatytroctidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maulisia mauli Parr, 1960 | PlatytroctidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maulisia microlepis Sazonov & Golovan, 1976 | PlatytroctidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Annam Leaf TurtleMauremys annamensis (Siebenrock, 1903) | GeoemydidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caspian TurtleMauremys caspica (Gmelin, 1774) | GeoemydidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Japanese Pond TurtleMauremys japonica (Temminck & Schlegel, 1835) | GeoemydidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Yellowpond TurtleMauremys mutica (Cantor, 1842) | GeoemydidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black-Necked Pond TurtleMauremys nigricans (Gray, 1834) | GeoemydidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Big-headed Reeves’ turtle [megalocephala]Mauremys reevesii (Gray, 1831) | GeoemydidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Western Caspian TurtleMauremys rivulata (Valenciennes, 1833) | GeoemydidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chinese Striped-necked TurtleMauremys sinensis (Gray, 1834) | GeoemydidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maurolicus amethystinopunctatus Cocco, 1838 | SternoptychidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maurolicus australis Hector, 1875 | SternoptychidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maurolicus breviculus Parin & Kobyliansky, 1993 | SternoptychidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maurolicus imperatorius Parin & Kobyliansky, 1993 | SternoptychidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maurolicus inventionis Parin & Kobyliansky, 1993 | SternoptychidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| North Pacific lightfishMaurolicus japonicus Ishikawa, 1915 | SternoptychidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maurolicus javanicus Parin & Kobyliansky, 1993 | SternoptychidaeChordata | 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.