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 |
|---|---|---|
| Asian Green Bee-eaterMerops orientalis Latham, 1801 | MeropidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Rainbow Bee-eaterMerops ornatus Latham, 1801 | MeropidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Blue-cheeked Bee-eaterMerops persicus Pallas, 1773 | MeropidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Blue-tailed Bee-eaterMerops philippinus Linnaeus, 1767 | MeropidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Little Bee-eaterMerops pusillus P. L. S. Müller, 1776 | MeropidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Somali Bee-eaterMerops revoilii Oustalet, 1882 | MeropidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Madagascar Bee-eaterMerops superciliosus Linnaeus, 1766 | MeropidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Blue-breasted Bee-eaterMerops variegatus Vieillot, 1817 | MeropidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Blue-throated Bee-eaterMerops viridis Linnaeus, 1758 | MeropidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| African Green Bee-eaterMerops viridissimus Swainson, 1837 | MeropidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mertensiella caucasica (Waga, 1876) | SalamandridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mertensiella djanaschvilii Tartarashvili & Bakradze, 1989 | SalamandridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mertensophryne anotis (Boulenger, 1907) | BufonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mertensophryne howelli (Poynton & Clarke, 1999) | BufonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mertensophryne lindneri (Mertens, 1955) | BufonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mertensophryne lonnbergi (Andersson, 1911) | BufonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mertensophryne loveridgei (Poynton, 1991) | BufonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mertensophryne lughensis (Loveridge, 1932) | BufonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mertensophryne melanopleura (Schmidt & Inger, 1959) | BufonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mertensophryne mocquardi (Angel, 1924) | BufonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mertensophryne nairobiensis (Loveridge, 1932) | BufonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mertensophryne nyikae (Loveridge, 1953) | BufonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mertensophryne taitana (Peters, 1878) | BufonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mertensophryne usambarae (Poynton & Clarke, 1999) | BufonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mertensophryne uzunguensis (Loveridge, 1932) | BufonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Slaty BristlefrontMerulaxis ater R. P. Lesson, 1831 | RhinocryptidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Stresemann's BristlefrontMerulaxis stresemanni Sick, 1960 | RhinocryptidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Hadramaut Sand LizardMesalina adramitana (Boulenger, 1917) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Adrar Desert LizardMesalina adrarensis Pizzigalli, Crochet, Geniez, Martínez-Freiria, Velo-Antón & Brito, 2021 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ardestan Desert LizardMesalina ardestanica Boroumand, Bafti, Saberi-Pirooz, Böhme & Ahmadzadeh, 2024 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arnold’s Desert LizardMesalina arnoldi Sindaco, Simó-Riudalbas, Sacchi & Carranza, 2018 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Southern-Arabian Desert LizardMesalina austroarabica Sindaco, Simó-Riudalbas, Sacchi & Carranza, 2018 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arnold's Sand LizardMesalina ayunensis Arnold, 1980 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| El Din’s Desert LizardMesalina bahaeldini Segoli, Cohen & Werner, 2002 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Balfour’s Desert LizardMesalina balfouri (Blanford, 1881) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bernoulli’s Short-Nosed Desert LizardMesalina bernoullii (Schenkel, 1901) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blanford's Short-Nosed Desert LizardMesalina brevirostris Blanford, 1874 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cryptic Desert LizardMesalina cryptica Šmíd, Velenská, Pola, Tamar, Busais, Shobrak, Almutairi, Salim, Alsubaie, Algethami, Algethami, Alanazi, Alshammari, Egan, Ramalho, Olson, Smithson, Chirio, Burger, Huyssteen, Petford & Carranza, 2025 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Esfarayen Desert LizardMesalina esfarayensis Boroumand, Bafti, Saberi-Pirooz, Böhme & Ahmadzadeh, 2024 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desert LacertaMesalina guttulata (Lichtenstein, 1823) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Khuzestan Desert LizardMesalina khuzestanensis Boroumand, Bafti, Saberi-Pirooz, Böhme & Ahmadzadeh, 2024 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Abd al-Kuri Desert LizardMesalina kuri Joger & Mayer, 2002 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Martin’s Desert RacerMesalina martini (Boulenger, 1897) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Small-scaled Desert LizardMesalina microlepis (Angel, 1936) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Olivier's Sand LizardMesalina olivieri (Audouin, 1829) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pasteur's LizardMesalina pasteuri (Bons, 1960) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Red-spotted LizardMesalina rubropunctata (Lichtenstein, 1823) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arabian short-nosed desert lizardMesalina saudiarabica Moravec, Smid, Schmitz, Shobrak & Wilms, 2017 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Simon’s Desert LizardMesalina simoni (Boettger, 1881) | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Persian Long-Tailed Desert LizardMesalina watsonana (Stoliczka, 1872) | LacertidaeChordata | 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.