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 |
|---|---|---|
| Patagonian TyrantColorhamphus parvirostris (Gould & G. R. Gray, 1839) | TyrannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Colossimystax pectegenitor (Lujan, Armbruster & Sabaj Pérez, 2007) | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier, 1816) | SerrasalmidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Colostethus agilis Lynch & Ruiz-Carranza, 1985 | DendrobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Colostethus furviventris Rivero & Serna, 1991 | DendrobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Colostethus imbricolus Silverstone, 1975 | DendrobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Colostethus inguinalis (Cope, 1868) | DendrobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Colostethus latinasus (Cope, 1863) | DendrobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Colostethus lynchi Grant, 1998 | DendrobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Colostethus panamansis (Dunn, 1933) | DendrobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| delta silversideColpichthys hubbsi Crabtree, 1989 | AtherinopsidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eastern RacerColuber constrictor Linnaeus, 1758 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Adler’s lace snakeColubroelaps adleri Poyarkov, Bragin & Nguyen, 2024 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Nguyenvansang’s Snake.Colubroelaps nguyenvansangi Orlov, Kharin, Ananjeva, Nguyen & Nguyen, 2009 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| White-naped PigeonColumba albinucha Sassi, 1911 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| White-collared PigeonColumba albitorques Rüppell, 1837 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| African Olive PigeonColumba arquatrix Temminck, 1808 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Nilgiri Wood PigeonColumba elphinstonii (Sykes, 1832) | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Yellow-eyed PigeonColumba eversmanni Bonaparte, 1856 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Speckled Wood PigeonColumba hodgsonii Vigors, 1832 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Western Bronze-naped PigeonColumba iriditorques Cassin, 1856 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Laurel PigeonColumba junoniae Hartert, 1916 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| White-headed PigeonColumba leucomela Temminck, 1821 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Stock DoveColumba oenas Linnaeus, 1758 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Yellow-legged PigeonColumba pallidiceps (E. P. Ramsay, 1878) | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Andaman Wood PigeonColumba palumboides (Hume, 1873) | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common Wood PigeonColumba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cameroon Olive PigeonColumba sjostedti Reichenow, 1901 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Trocaz PigeonColumba trocaz Heineken, 1829 | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Ecuadorian Ground DoveColumbina buckleyi (P. L. Sclater & Salvin, 1877) | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Croaking Ground DoveColumbina cruziana (Prévost, 1842) | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Blue-eyed Ground DoveColumbina cyanopis (Pelzeln, 1870) | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Inca DoveColumbina inca (R. Lesson, 1847) | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Plain-breasted Ground DoveColumbina minuta (Linnaeus, 1766) | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Common Ground DoveColumbina passerina (Linnaeus, 1758) | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Picui Ground DoveColumbina picui (Temminck, 1813) | ColumbidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Comephorus baikalensis (Pallas, 1776) | ComephoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Comephorus dybowskii Korotneff, 1904 | ComephoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blackthroated BloodsuckerComplicitus nigrigularis (Ota & Hikida, 1991) | AgamidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Compsanthias hawaiiensis (Randall, 1979) | AnthiadidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Compsaraia compsa (Mago-Leccia, 1994) | ApteronotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Boulenger's Forest SnakeCompsophis boulengeri (Peracca, 1892) | PseudoxyrhophiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Compsophis fatsibe (Mercurio & Andreone, 2005) | PseudoxyrhophiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Compsophis laphystius (Cadle, 1996) | PseudoxyrhophiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Compsophis vinckei (Domergue, 1988) | PseudoxyrhophiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Compsophis zeny (Cadle, 1996) | PseudoxyrhophiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scarlet-throated TanagerCompsothraupis loricata (M. H. K. Lichtenstein, 1819) | ThraupidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Compsura gorgonae (Evermann & Goldsborough, 1909) | CharacidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Samanà Keeled GalliwaspComptus alloeides (Schwartz, 1964) | DiploglossidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gonave Keeled GalliwaspComptus weinlandi (Cope, 1868) | DiploglossidaeChordata | 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.