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 |
|---|---|---|
| Little Big-eyed BatChiroderma trinitatum Goodwin, 1958 | PhyllostomidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hairy Big-eyed BatChiroderma villosum Peters, 1860 | PhyllostomidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mottled warbonnetChirolophis japonicus Herzenstein, 1890 | StichaeidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| mosshead warbonnetChirolophis nugator (Jordan & Williams, 1895) | StichaeidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Haired warbonnetChirolophis saitone (Jordan & Snyder, 1902) | StichaeidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| bearded warbonnetChirolophis snyderi (Taranetz, 1938) | StichaeidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| matcheek warbonnetChirolophis tarsodes (Jordan & Snyder, 1902) | StichaeidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chirolophis wui (Wang & Wang, 1935) | StichaeidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chiromantis kelleri Boettger, 1893 | RhacophoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chiromantis rufescens (Günther, 1869) | RhacophoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chiromantis xerampelina Peters, 1854 | RhacophoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Fea's Tree RatChiromyscus chiropus (Thomas, 1891) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-capped Fruit BatChironax melanocephalus (Temminck, 1825) | PteropodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sulawesi Black-capped Fruit BatChironax tumulus Bergmans & Rozendaal, 1988 | PteropodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Water OpossumChironectes minimus (Zimmermann, 1780) | DidelphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chironemus delfini (Porter, 1914) | ChironemidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chironemus georgianus Cuvier, 1829 | ChironemidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chironemus maculosus (Richardson, 1850) | ChironemidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chironemus marmoratus Günther, 1860 | ChironemidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chironemus microlepis Waite, 1916 | ChironemidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Two-headed SipoChironius bicarinatus (Wied-Neuwied, 1820) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chironius brazili Hamdan & Fernandes, 2015 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Amazon CoachwhipChironius carinatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chironius challenger Kok, 2010 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| South American SipoChironius cochranae Hoge & Romano, 1969 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chironius diamantina Fernandes & Hamdan, 2014 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chironius dracomaris Sudré, Andrade-Junior, Folly, Azevedo, Ávila, Curcio, Sales Nunes & Passos, 2024 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Linnaeus' SipoChironius exoletus (Linnaeus, 1758) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Brown SipoChironius fuscus (Linnaeus, 1758) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gouvea’s SipoChironius gouveai Entiauspe-Neto, Lúcio-Lyra, Koch, Marques-Quintela, Diesel-Abegg & Loebmann, 2020 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ecuador SipoChironius grandisquamis (Peters, 1869) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Brazilian SipoChironius laevicollis (Wied-Neuwied, 1824) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chironius laurenti Dixon, Wiest & Cei, 1993 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Yellow-headed SipoChironius leucometapus Dixon, Wiest & Cei, 1993 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Central SipoChironius maculoventris Dixon, Wiest & Cei, 1993 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mountain SipoChironius monticola Roze, 1952 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| South American SipoChironius multiventris Schmidt & Walker, 1943 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Trinidad SipoChironius nigelnoriegai Jadin, Jowers, Blair, Ludwig, Salgado-Irazabal & Murphy, 2024 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Central SipoChironius quadricarinatus (Boie, 1827) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Wagler's SipoChironius scurrula (Wagler, 1824) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| South American CoachwhipChironius septentrionalis Dixon, Wiest & Cei, 1993 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| SipoChironius spixii (Hallowell, 1845) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Saint Vincent CoachwhipChironius vincenti (Boulenger, 1891) | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Whipala SiposChironius whipala Quinteros-Muñoz, Gómez-Murillo, Camacho-Badani, Aguayo, Carpio-Real, Pérez, Marca, Gonzales & Torres-Carvajal, 2024 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chirophryne xenolophus Regan & Trewavas, 1932 | OneirodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Palawan Pencil-tailed Tree MouseChiropodomys calamianensis (Taylor, 1934) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Indomalayan Pencil-tailed Tree MouseChiropodomys gliroides (Blyth, 1856) | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Koopman's Pencil-tailed Tree MouseChiropodomys karlkoopmani Musser, 1979 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Greater Pencil-tailed Tree MouseChiropodomys major Thomas, 1893 | MuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gray-bellied Pencil-tailed Tree MouseChiropodomys muroides Medway, 1965 | MuridaeChordata | 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.