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 |
|---|---|---|
| African Sheath-tailed BatColeura afra (Peters, 1852) | EmballonuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Madagascar Sheath-tailed BatColeura kibomalandy Goodman, Puechmaille, Friedli-Weyeneth, Gerlach, Ruedi, Schoeman, Stanley & Teeling, 2012 | EmballonuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Brown Violet-earColibri delphinae (R. Lesson, 1839) | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-vented VioletearColibri serrirostris (Vieillot, 1816) | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Green Violet-earColibri thalassinus (Swainson, 1827) | TrochilidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Spot-bellied BobwhiteColinus leucopogon (R. Lesson, 1842) | OdontophoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Colistium guentheri (Hutton, 1873) | PleuronectidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Red-backed MousebirdColius castanotus J. Verreaux & É. Verreaux, 1855 | ColiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Speckled MousebirdColius striatus J. F. Gmelin, 1789 | ColiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Colleeneremia capitula (Tyler, 1968) | PelodryadidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Colleeneremia electrica (Ingram & Corben, 1990) | PelodryadidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Colleeneremia pygmaea (Meyer, 1875) | PelodryadidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Colleeneremia pyrina (Purser, Doughty, Rowley, Böhme, Donnellan, Anstis, Mitchell, Shea, Amey, Mitchell et al., 2025) | PelodryadidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Colleeneremia quadrilineata (Tyler & Parker, 1974) | PelodryadidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Colleeneremia rubella (Gray, 1842) | PelodryadidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Colleeneremia rueppelli (Boettger, 1895) | PelodryadidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Colletteichthys dussumieri (Valenciennes, 1837) | BatrachoididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Collichthys niveatus Jordan & Starks, 1906 | SciaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bornean SwiftletCollocalia dodgei Richmond, 1905 | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Glossy SwiftletCollocalia esculenta (Linnaeus, 1758) | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ridgetop SwiftletCollocalia isonota Oberholser, 1906 | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cave SwiftletCollocalia linchi Horsfield & F. Moore, 1854 | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Grey-rumped SwiftletCollocalia marginata Salvadori, 1882 | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Christmas Island SwiftletCollocalia natalis Lister, 1889 | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Drab SwiftletCollocalia neglecta G. R. Gray, 1866 | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tenggara SwiftletCollocalia sumbawae Stresemann, 1925 | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Satin SwiftletCollocalia uropygialis G. R. Gray, 1866 | ApodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mountain Dwarf SnakeCollorhabdium williamsoni Smedley, 1932 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Grey ShrikethrushColluricincla harmonica (Latham, 1802) | PachycephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Colluricincla tenebrosa (Rothschild, 1911) | PachycephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sandstone ShrikethrushColluricincla woodwardi Hartert, 1905 | PachycephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Vanzolini's TeiidColobodactylus dalcyanus Vanzolini & Ramos, 1977 | GymnophthalmidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chaco ColobosauraColobosaura kraepelini (Werner, 1910) | GymnophthalmidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bahia ColobosauraColobosaura modesta (Reinhardt & Lütken, 1862) | GymnophthalmidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Colobosauroides carvalhoi Soares & Caramaschi, 1998 | GymnophthalmidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Colobosauroides cearensis Cunha, Lima-Verde & Lima, 1991 | GymnophthalmidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| LikweliColobus congoensis J. Hart, Amboko, Arenson, Horton, Coates, Kapale, Koko, T. Hart, Gilbert, Sargis & Detwiler, 2026 | CercopithecidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| GuerezaColobus guereza Rüppell, 1835 | CercopithecidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| King ColobusColobus polykomos (Zimmermann, 1780) | CercopithecidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black ColobusColobus satanas Waterhouse, 1838 | CercopithecidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ursine ColobusColobus vellerosus (I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1834) | CercopithecidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Coloconger cadenati Kanazawa, 1961 | ColocongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coloconger canina (Castle & Raju, 1975) | ColocongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coloconger giganteus (Castle, 1959) | ColocongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coloconger meadi Kanazawa, 1957 | ColocongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coloconger paucitubus Ho, Smith & Pogonoski, 2025 | ColocongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cologrammus flavescens (Hutton, 1872) | ClinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cololabis adoceta Böhlke, 1951 | ScomberesocidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pacific sauryCololabis saira (Brevoort, 1856) | ScomberesocidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Long-tailed TyrantColonia colonus (Vieillot, 1818) | TyrannidaeChordata | 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.