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 |
|---|---|---|
| Long-billed PloverCharadrius placidus J. E. Gray & G. R. Gray, 1863 | CharadriidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Red-capped PloverCharadrius ruficapillus Temminck, 1821 | CharadriidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte, 1825 | CharadriidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-banded PloverCharadrius thoracicus (Richmond, 1896) | CharadriidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| KilldeerCharadrius vociferus Linnaeus, 1758 | CharadriidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Wilson's PloverCharadrius wilsonia Ord, 1814 | CharadriidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Charax condei (Géry & Knöppel, 1976) | CharacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Charax delimai Menezes & Lucena, 2014 | CharacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Charax gibbosus (Linnaeus, 1758) | CharacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Charax hemigrammus (Eigenmann, 1912) | CharacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Charax stenopterus (Cope, 1894) | CharacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Charax tectifer (Cope, 1870) | CharacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Charax unimaculatus Lucena, 1989 | CharacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Southern Rubber BoaCharina umbratica Klauber, 1943 | BoidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Josephine's LorikeetCharmosyna josefinae (Finsch, 1873) | PsittaculidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Duchess LorikeetCharmosynoides margarethae (Tristram, 1879) | PsittaculidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Fairy LorikeetCharmosynopsis pulchella (G. R. Gray, 1859) | PsittaculidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chascanopsetta crumenalis (Gilbert & Cramer, 1897) | BothidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chascanopsetta kenyaensis Hensley & Smale, 1998 | BothidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chascanopsetta micrognatha Amaoka & Yamamoto, 1984 | BothidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chascanopsetta novaeguineae Tongboonkua, Lee & Chen, 2018 | BothidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Indo-west Pacific pelican flounderChascanopsetta prognatha Norman, 1939 | BothidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Oahu ElepaioChasiempis ibidis Stejneger, 1887 | MonarchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chasmistes brevirostris Cope, 1879 | CatostomidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chasmistes cujus Cope, 1883 | CatostomidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chasmistes fecundus (Cope & Yarrow, 1875) | CatostomidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chasmistes liorus Jordan, 1878 | CatostomidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chasmocranus brachynemus Gomes & Schubart, 1958 | HeptapteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chasmocranus brevior Eigenmann, 1912 | HeptapteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chasmocranus lopezae Miranda Ribeiro, 1968 | HeptapteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chasmocranus quadrizonatus Pearson, 1937 | HeptapteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chasmocranus surinamensis (Bleeker, 1862) | HeptapteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chasmocranus truncatorostris Borodin, 1927 | HeptapteridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| stretchjaw blennyChasmodes longimaxilla Williams, 1983 | BlenniidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chatrabus damaranus (Barnard, 1927) | BatrachoididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chatrabus hendersoni (Smith, 1952) | BatrachoididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chatrabus melanurus (Barnard, 1927) | BatrachoididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaudhuria fusipinnis Kottelat & Britz, 2000 | ChaudhuriidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaudhuria ritvae Britz, 2010 | ChaudhuriidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chauligenion camelopardalis McCosker & Okamoto, 2016 | OphichthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chauliodus barbatus Garman, 1899 | StomiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chauliodus dentatus Garman, 1899 | StomiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pacific viperfishChauliodus macouni Bean, 1890 | StomiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chauliodus schmidti Ege, 1948 | StomiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chauliodus vasnetzovi Novikova, 1972 | StomiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Northern ScreamerChauna chavaria (Linnaeus, 1766) | AnhimidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Southern ScreamerChauna torquata (Oken, 1816) | AnhimidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chaunacops spinosus Ho & McGrouther, 2015 | ChaunacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaunax abei Le Danois, 1978 | ChaunacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaunax africanus Ho & Last, 2013 | ChaunacidaeChordata | 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.