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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cetopsorhamdia nasus Eigenmann & Fisher, 1916 | HeptapteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cetopsorhamdia orinoco Schultz, 1944 | HeptapteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cetopsorhamdia phantasia Stewart, 1985 | HeptapteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cape basking sharkCetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, 1765) | CetorhinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Grey-sided Bush WarblerCettia brunnifrons (Hodgson, 1845) | CettiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chestnut-crowned Bush WarblerCettia major (F. Moore, 1854) | CettiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Blue MalkohaCeuthmochares aereus (Vieillot, 1817) | CuculidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Green MalkohaCeuthmochares australis Sharpe, 1873 | CuculidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ceuthomantis cavernibardus (Myers & Donnelly, 1997) | CeuthomantidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ceuthomantis duellmani Barrio-Amorós, 2010 | CeuthomantidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Silvery KingfisherCeyx argentatus Tweeddale, 1877 | AlcedinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Azure KingfisherCeyx azureus (Latham, 1801) | AlcedinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| New Georgia Dwarf KingfisherCeyx collectoris Rothschild & E. Hartert, 1901 | AlcedinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Manus Dwarf KingfisherCeyx dispar Rothschild & E. Hartert, 1914 | AlcedinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sulawesi Dwarf KingfisherCeyx fallax (Schlegel, 1866) | AlcedinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chameleon Dwarf KingfisherCeyx lepidus Temminck, 1836 | AlcedinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Malaita Dwarf KingfisherCeyx malaitae Mayr, 1935 | AlcedinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dimorphic Dwarf KingfisherCeyx margarethae W. Blasius, 1890 | AlcedinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| North Solomons Dwarf KingfisherCeyx meeki Rothschild, 1901 | AlcedinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| North Philippine Dwarf-kingfisherCeyx melanurus (Kaup, 1848) | AlcedinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| New Britain Dwarf KingfisherCeyx sacerdotis E. P. Ramsay, 1882 | AlcedinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sula Dwarf KingfisherCeyx wallacii Sharpe, 1868 | AlcedinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bismarck KingfisherCeyx websteri (E. Hartert, 1898) | AlcedinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chaca bankanensis Bleeker, 1852 | ChacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaca burmensis Brown & Ferraris, 1988 | ChacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaca chaca (Hamilton, 1822) | ChacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pygmy OpossumChacodelphys formosa (Shamel, 1930) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chacophrys pierottii (Vellard, 1948) | CeratophryidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| blackfin icefishChaenocephalus aceratus (Lönnberg, 1906) | ChannichthyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| spiny icefishChaenodraco wilsoni Regan, 1914 | ChannichthyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaenogobius annularis Gill, 1859 | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaenogobius gulosus (Sauvage, 1882) | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| snouted mulletChaenomugil proboscideus (Günther, 1861) | MugilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Smooth dreamerChaenophryne draco Beebe, 1932 | OneirodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaenopsis celeste Tavera, 2021 | ChaenopsidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaenopsis deltarrhis Böhlke, 1957 | ChaenopsidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| yellowface pikeblennyChaenopsis limbaughi Robins & Randall, 1965 | ChaenopsidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| freckled pikeblennyChaenopsis roseola Hastings & Shipp, 1981 | ChaenopsidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaenopsis stephensi Robins & Randall, 1965 | ChaenopsidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Duke of Abruzzi's Free-tailed BatChaerephon aloysiisabaudiae (Festa, 1907) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Madagascar Free-tailed BatChaerephon atsinanana Goodman, Buccas, Naidoo, Ratrimomanarivo, Taylor & Lamb, 2010 | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gland-tailed Free-tailed BatChaerephon bemmeleni (Jentink, 1879) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Spotted Free-tailed BatChaerephon bivittatus (Heuglin, 1861) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Fijian Free-tailed BatChaerephon bregullae (Felten, 1964) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chapin's Free-tailed BatChaerephon chapini J. A. Allen, 1917 | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gallagher's Free-tailed BatChaerephon gallagheri (Harrison, 1975) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Grandidier's Free-tailed BatChaerephon leucogaster (A. Grandidier, 1869) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| São Tomé Free-tailed BatChaerephon tomensis (Juste & Ibañez, 1993) | MolossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pig-footed BandicootChaeropus ecaudatus Ogilby, 1838 | ChaeropodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Northern Pig-footed BandicootChaeropus yirratji Travouillon et al., 2019 | ChaeropodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
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.