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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chaetostoma palmeri Regan, 1912 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaetostoma paucispinis Regan, 1912 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaetostoma pearsei Eigenmann, 1920 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaetostoma sovichthys Schultz, 1944 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaetostoma spondylus Salcedo & Ortega, 2015 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaetostoma stroumpoulos Salcedo, 2006 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaetostoma tachiraense Schultz, 1944 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaetostoma thomsoni Regan, 1904 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaetostoma trimaculineum Lujan, Meza-Vargas, Astudillo-Clavijo, Barriga-Salazar & López-Fernández, 2015 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaetostoma vagum Fowler, 1943 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaetostoma vasquezi Lasso & Provenzano, 1998 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaetostoma venezuelae (Schultz, 1944) | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaetostoma yurubiense Ceas & Page, 1996 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ashy-tailed SwiftChaetura andrei von Berlepsch & Hartert, 1902 | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Short-tailed SwiftChaetura brachyura (Jardine, 1846) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Pale-rumped SwiftChaetura egregia Todd, 1916 | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Lesser Antillean SwiftChaetura martinica (Hermann, 1783) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica (Linnaeus, 1758) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Vaux's SwiftChaetura vauxi (J. K. Townsend, 1839) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chaeturichthys jeoni Shibukawa & Iwata, 2013 | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chagunius baileyi Rainboth, 1986 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| White-capped RedstartChaimarrornis leucocephalus (Vigors, 1831) | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chalaroderma capito (Valenciennes, 1836) | BlenniidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chalaroderma ocellata (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908) | BlenniidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chalceus spilogyros Zanata & Toledo-Piza, 2004 | ChalceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chalceus taeniatus Jardine, 1841 | ChalceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Armitage's Cylindrical SkinkChalcides armitagei Boulenger, 1922 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Spanish Cylindrical SkinkChalcides bedriagai (Bosca, 1880) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ocellated skinkChalcides bottegi Boulenger, 1898 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Boulenger's FeyliniaChalcides boulengeri Anderson, 1892 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cylindrical SkinkChalcides chalcides (Linnaeus, 1758) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Colosi's Cylindrical SkinkChalcides colosii Lanza, 1957 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ebner's Cylindrical SkinkChalcides ebneri Werner, 1931 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Günther's Cylindrical SkinkChalcides guentheri Boulenger, 1887 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ragazzi's Bronze SkinkChalcides humilis Boulenger, 1896 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chalcides lanzai Pasteur, 1967 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Leviton's Cylindrical SkinkChalcides levitoni Pasteur, 1978 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chalcides manueli Hediger, 1935 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ocellated (Bronze) SkinkChalcides ocellatus (Forskål, 1775) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chafarinas' skinkChalcides parallelus Doumergue, 1901 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chalcides pentadactylus (Beddome, 1870) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gran Canaria SkinkChalcides sexlineatus Steindachner, 1891 | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Duméril's Wedge-snouted SkinkChalcides sphenopsiformis (Duméril, 1856) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Western (or Iberian) Three-Toed SkinkChalcides striatus (Cuvier, 1829) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Canaryan Cylindrical SkinkChalcides viridanus (Gravenhorst, 1851) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Thwaites' SkinkChalcidoseps thwaitesi (Günther, 1872) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chalcinus angulatus | TriportheidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Horsfield's Bronze CuckooChalcites basalis (Horsfield, 1821) | CuculidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Long-billed CuckooChalcites megarhynchus (G. R. Gray, 1858) | CuculidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amethyst SunbirdChalcomitra amethystina (Shaw, 1812) | NectariniidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
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.