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 |
|---|---|---|
| Black BustardAfrotis afra (Linnaeus, 1758) | OtididaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Northern Black BustardAfrotis afraoides (A. Smith, 1831) | OtididaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Angola blind snakeAfrotyphlops angolensis (Bocage, 1866) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Angolan giant blind-snakeAfrotyphlops anomalus (Bocage, 1873) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bibron's Blind SnakeAfrotyphlops bibronii (Smith, 1846) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blanford’s blind-snakeAfrotyphlops blanfordii (Boulenger, 1889) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Somali giant blind-snakeAfrotyphlops brevis (Scortecci, 1929) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Calabresi’s blind-snakeAfrotyphlops calabresii (Gans & Laurent, 1965) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Afrotyphlops chirioi Trape, 2019 | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blotched blind snakeAfrotyphlops congestus (Duméril & Bibron, 1844) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Zambezi Blind SnakeAfrotyphlops dinga (Peters, 1854) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Elegant Worm SnakeAfrotyphlops elegans (Peters, 1868) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Fornasini's Blind SnakeAfrotyphlops fornasinii (Bianconi, 1849) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Usambara Spotted Worm SnakeAfrotyphlops gierrai (Mocquard, 1897) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kakamega blind-snakeAfrotyphlops kaimosae (Loveridge, 1935) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Guinea Blind SnakeAfrotyphlops liberiensis (Hallowell, 1848) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Common Lined Worm SnakeAfrotyphlops lineolatus (Jan, 1864) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kenyan dwarf blind-snakeAfrotyphlops nanus Broadley & Wallach, 2009 | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bicoloured blind skinkAfrotyphlops nigrocandidus (Broadley & Wallach, 2000) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Slender Blind SnakeAfrotyphlops obtusus (Peters, 1865) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tanga Worm SnakeAfrotyphlops platyrhynchus (Sternfeld, 1910) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Spotted Blind SnakeAfrotyphlops punctatus (Leach, 1819) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rondo Worm SnakeAfrotyphlops rondoensis (Loveridge, 1942) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Afrotyphlops rouxestevae Trape, 2019 | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Afrotyphlops schlegelii (Bianconi, 1849) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Schmidt’s blind-snakeAfrotyphlops schmidti (Laurent, 1956) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Steinhaus' Worm SnakeAfrotyphlops steinhausi (Werner, 1909) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Liwale blind-snakeAfrotyphlops tanganicanus (Laurent, 1964) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Usambara blind-snakeAfrotyphlops usambaricus (Laurent, 1964) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Afurcagobius suppositus (Sauvage, 1880) | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Afurcagobius tamarensis (Johnston, 1883) | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Agalychnis annae (Duellman, 1963) | PhyllomedusidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Agalychnis buckleyi (Boulenger, 1882) | PhyllomedusidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Red-eyed TreefrogAgalychnis callidryas (Cope, 1862) | PhyllomedusidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Agalychnis dacnicolor (Cope, 1864) | PhyllomedusidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Agalychnis danieli (Ruiz-Carranza, Hernández-Camacho & Rueda-Almonacid, 1988) | PhyllomedusidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Agalychnis hulli (Duellman & Mendelson, 1995) | PhyllomedusidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Agalychnis lemur (Boulenger, 1882) | PhyllomedusidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Agalychnis medinae (Funkhouser, 1962) | PhyllomedusidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Agalychnis moreletii (Duméril, 1853) | PhyllomedusidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Agalychnis psilopygion (Cannatella, 1980) | PhyllomedusidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Agalychnis saltator Taylor, 1955 | PhyllomedusidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Agalychnis spurrelli Boulenger, 1913 | PhyllomedusidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Agalychnis terranova Rivera-Correa, Duarte-Cubides, Rueda-Almonacid & Daza-R., 2013 | PhyllomedusidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ground AgamaAgama aculeata Merrem, 1820 | AgamidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| West African AgamaAgama africana (Hallowell, 1844) | AgamidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Common AgamaAgama agama (Linnaeus, 1758) | AgamidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anchieta's AgamaAgama anchietae Bocage, 1896 | AgamidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Northern Ground AgamaAgama armata Peters, 1854 | AgamidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Southern African Rock AgamaAgama atra Daudin, 1802 | AgamidaeChordata | 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.