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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mesonauta egregius Kullander & Silfvergrip, 1991 | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mesonauta festivus (Heckel, 1840) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mesonauta guyanae Schindler, 1998 | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mesonauta insignis (Heckel, 1840) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mesonauta mirificus Kullander & Silfvergrip, 1991 | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mesonoemacheilus herrei Nalbant & Bănărescu, 1982 | NemacheilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mesonoemacheilus pambarensis (Rema Devi & Indra, 1994) | NemacheilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| MacConnell's BatMesophylla macconnelli Thomas, 1901 | PhyllostomidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| North Atlantic beaked whaleMesoplodon bidens (Sowerby, 1804) | HyperoodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hubbs' Beaked WhaleMesoplodon carlhubbsi Moore, 1963 | HyperoodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Blainville's Beaked WhaleMesoplodon densirostris (Blainville, 1817) | HyperoodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ramari's beaked whaleMesoplodon eueu Carroll, McGowen, McCarthy, Marx, Aguilar, Dalebout, Dreyer, Gaggiotti, Hansen et al., 2021 | HyperoodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Antillean beaked whaleMesoplodon europaeus (Gervais, 1855) | HyperoodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ginkgo-toothed Beaked WhaleMesoplodon ginkgodens Nishiwaki & Kamiya, 1958 | HyperoodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gray's Beaked WhaleMesoplodon grayi von Haast, 1876 | HyperoodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hector's Beaked WhaleMesoplodon hectori (Gray, 1871) | HyperoodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Deraniyagala's Beaked WhaleMesoplodon hotaula Deraniyagala, 1963 | HyperoodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Layard's beaked whaleMesoplodon layardii (Gray, 1865) | HyperoodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| True's Beaked WhaleMesoplodon mirus True, 1913 | HyperoodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Perrin's Beaked WhaleMesoplodon perrini Dalebout, Mead, Baker, Baker & van Helden, 2002 | HyperoodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bering Sea beaked whaleMesoplodon stejnegeri True, 1885 | HyperoodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Spade-toothed WhaleMesoplodon traversii (Gray, 1874) | HyperoodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mesopotamichthys sharpeyi (Günther, 1874) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mesopristes argenteus (Cuvier, 1829) | TerapontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mesopristes cancellatus (Cuvier, 1829) | TerapontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| plain teraponMesopristes elongatus (Guichenot, 1866) | TerapontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mesopristes iravi Yoshino, Yoshigou & Senou, 2002 | TerapontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mesopristes kneri (Bleeker, 1876) | TerapontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tepalcatepec SkinkMesoscincus altamirani (Dugès, 1891) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Managua SkinkMesoscincus managuae (Dunn, 1933) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mayan Black-headed SkinkMesoscincus schwartzei (Fischer, 1884) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coastal House SnakeMesotes strigatus (Günther, 1858) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mesotriton alpestris (Laurenti, 1768) | SalamandridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mesovagus antipodum (Hubbs & Iwamoto, 1977) | MacrouridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chuuk MonarchMetabolus rugensis (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841) | MonarchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common Brown Four-eyed OpossumMetachirus myosuros (Temminck, 1824) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Brown Four-eyed OpossumMetachirus nudicaudatus (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1803) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Metacrinia nichollsi (Harrison, 1927) | MyobatrachidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Metahomaloptera omeiensis Chang, 1944 | BalitoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scaled MetaltailMetallura aeneocauda (Gould, 1846) | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Violet-throated MetaltailMetallura baroni Salvin, 1893 | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Fiery-throated MetaltailMetallura eupogon (Cabanis, 1874) | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Perija MetaltailMetallura iracunda Wetmore, 1946 | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Neblina MetaltailMetallura odomae G. R. Graves, 1980 | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black MetaltailMetallura phoebe (R. Lesson & Delattre, 1839) | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Coppery MetaltailMetallura theresiae Simon, 1902 | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tyrian MetaltailMetallura tyrianthina (Loddiges, 1832) | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Viridian MetaltailMetallura williami (Delattre & Bourcier, 1846) | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Metaloricaria nijsseni (Boeseman, 1976) | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Metaloricaria paucidens Isbrücker, 1975 | LoricariidaeChordata | 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.