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 |
|---|---|---|
| Honey BadgerMellivora capensis (Schreber, 1776) | MustelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Moustached Grass WarblerMelocichla mentalis (Fraser, 1843) | MacrosphenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Melodichthys hadrocephalus Nielsen & Cohen, 1986 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cuc Phuong Ferret BadgerMelogale cucphuongensis Nadler, Streicher, Stefen, Schwierz & Roos, 2011 | MustelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bornean Ferret-badgerMelogale everetti (Thomas, 1895) | MustelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chinese Ferret-badgerMelogale moschata (Gray, 1831) | MustelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Javan Ferret-badgerMelogale orientalis (Horsfield, 1821) | MustelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Formosan Ferret-badgerMelogale subaurantiaca (Swinhoe, 1862) | MustelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dusky Seram MelomysMelomys aerosus (Thomas, 1920) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Rossel Island MelomysMelomys arcium (Thomas, 1913) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Great Key Island MelomysMelomys bannisteri Kitchener & Maryanto, 1993 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bougainville Island MelomysMelomys bougainville Troughton, 1936 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Grassland MelomysMelomys burtoni (Ramsay, 1887) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cape York MelomysMelomys capensis Tate, 1951 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Short-tailed Talaud MelomysMelomys caurinus (Thomas, 1921) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Fawn-footed MelomysMelomys cervinipes (Gould, 1852) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dollman's MelomysMelomys dollmani Rümmler, 1935 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Manusela MelomysMelomys fraterculus (Thomas, 1920) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Snow Mountains Grassland MelomysMelomys frigicola Tate, 1951 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Seram Long-tailed MelomysMelomys fulgens (Thomas, 1920) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Riama Island MelomysMelomys howi Kitchener, in Kitchener & Suyanto, 1996 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-bellied MelomysMelomys leucogaster (Jentink, 1908) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Papua Grassland MelomysMelomys lutillus (Thomas, 1913) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Manus Island MelomysMelomys matambuai Flannery, Colgan & Trimble, 1994 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Obi Island MelomysMelomys obiensis (Thomas, 1911) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pavel's Seram MelomysMelomys paveli Helgen, 2003 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bramble Cay MelomysMelomys rubicola Thomas, 1924 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-tailed MelomysMelomys rufescens (Alston, 1877) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Buka Island MelomysMelomys spechti Flannery & Wickler, 1990 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Long-tailed Talaud MelomysMelomys talaudium (Thomas, 1921) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-bellied Blossom BatMelonycteris melanops Dobson, 1877 | PteropodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| BudgerigarMelopsittacus undulatus (Shaw, 1805) | PsittaculidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cuban BullfinchMelopyrrha nigra (Linnaeus, 1758) | ThraupidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Puerto Rican BullfinchMelopyrrha portoricensis (Daudin, 1800) | ThraupidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana (Latham, 1790) | PasserellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii (Audubon, 1834) | PasserellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Song SparrowMelospiza melodia (A. Wilson, 1810) | PasserellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-throated TowheeMelozone albicollis (P. L. Sclater, 1858) | PasserellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Canyon TowheeMelozone fusca (Swainson, 1827) | PasserellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sloth BearMelursus ursinus (Shaw, 1791) | UrsidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Membras analis (Schultz, 1948) | AtherinopsidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Membras argentea (Schultz, 1948) | AtherinopsidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Membras dissimilis (Carvalho, 1956) | AtherinopsidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| landia silversideMembras gilberti (Jordan & Bollman, 1890) | AtherinopsidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| rough silversideMembras martinica (Valenciennes, 1835) | AtherinopsidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Membras procera Chernoff, Machado-Allison, Escobedo, Freiburger, Henderson, Hennessy et al., 2020 | AtherinopsidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Membras pygmaea Chernoff, Machado-Allison, Escobedo, Freiburger, Henderson, Hennessy et al., 2020 | AtherinopsidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Membras vagrans (Goode & Bean, 1879) | AtherinopsidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mendosoma caerulescens Guichenot, 1848 | LatridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mendosoma lineatum Guichenot, 1848 | LatridaeChordata | 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.