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 |
|---|---|---|
| Maylandia estherae (Konings, 1995) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia fainzilberi (Staeck, 1976) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia flavifemina (Konings & Stauffer, 2006) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia glaucos (Ciccotto, Konings & Stauffer, 2011) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia greshakei (Meyer & Förster, 1984) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia hajomaylandi (Meyer & Schartl, 1984) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia lanisticola (Burgess, 1976) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia lombardoi (Burgess, 1977) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia lundoensis (Stauffer, Black & Konings, 2013) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia mbenjii (Stauffer, Bowers, Kellogg & McKaye, 1997) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia midomo (Stauffer, Black & Konings, 2013) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia mossambica (Ciccotto, Konings & Stauffer, 2011) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia nigrodorsalis (Stauffer, Black & Konings, 2013) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia nkhunguensis (Ciccotto, Konings & Stauffer, 2011) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia pambazuko (Stauffer, Black & Konings, 2013) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia phaeos (Stauffer, Bowers, Kellogg & McKaye, 1997) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia pulpican (Tawil, 2002) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia pyrsonotos (Stauffer, Bowers, Kellogg & McKaye, 1997) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia sciasma (Ciccotto, Konings & Stauffer, 2011) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia tarakiki (Stauffer, Black & Konings, 2013) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia xanstomachus (Stauffer & Boltz, 1989) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia xanthos (Ciccotto, Konings & Stauffer, 2011) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maylandia zebra (Boulenger, 1899) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Maynea puncta (Jenyns, 1842) | ZoarcidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Slaty MonarchMayrornis lessoni (G. R. Gray, 1846) | MonarchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Vanikoro MonarchMayrornis schistaceus Mayr, 1933 | MonarchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ogea MonarchMayrornis versicolor Mayr, 1933 | MonarchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common Red BrocketMazama americana (Erxleben, 1777) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Small Red BrocketMazama bororo Duarte, 1996 | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common Dwarf BrocketMazama chunyi Hershkovitz, 1959 | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common Brown BrocketMazama gouazoubira (G. Fischer von Waldheim, 1814) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Lesser BrocketMazama nanus (Hensel, 1872) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amazonian Brown BrocketMazama nemorivaga (F. Cuvier, 1817) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ecuador Red BrocketMazama rufina (Bourcier & Pucheran, 1852) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Central American Red BrocketMazama temama (Kerr, 1792) | CervidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mazarunia charadrica López-Fernández, Taphorn B. & Liverpool, 2012 | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mazarunia pala López-Fernández, Taphorn B. & Liverpool, 2012 | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mccoskerichthys sandae Rosenblatt & Stephens, 1978 | ChaenopsidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mchenga conophoros (Stauffer, LoVullo & McKaye, 1993) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mchenga cyclicos (Stauffer, LoVullo & McKaye, 1993) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mchenga eucinostomus (Regan, 1922) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mchenga flavimanus (Iles, 1960) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mchenga inornata (Boulenger, 1908) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mchenga thinos (Stauffer, LoVullo & McKaye, 1993) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Abyssal cutthroat eelMeadia abyssalis (Kamohara, 1938) | SynaphobranchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Meadia roseni Mok, Lee & Chan, 1991 | SynaphobranchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Papuan Spine-tailed SwiftMearnsia novaeguineae (D'Albertis & Salvadori, 1879) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Philippine Spine-tailed SwiftMearnsia picina (Tweeddale, 1879) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mecaenichthys immaculatus (Ogilby, 1885) | PomacentridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| African slender-snouted crocodileMecistops cataphractus (Cuvier, 1825) | CrocodylidaeChordata | 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.