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 |
|---|---|---|
| Short-tailed Bay Island forest lizardCoryphophylax brevicauda Harikrishnan, Vasudevan, Chandramouli, Choudhury, Dutta & Das, 2012 | AgamidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coryphophylax krishnani Chandramouli, 2026 | AgamidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| barfin gobyCoryphopterus alloides Böhlke & Robins, 1960 | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| colon gobyCoryphopterus dicrus Böhlke & Robins, 1960 | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| pallid gobyCoryphopterus eidolon Böhlke & Robins, 1960 | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| bridled gobyCoryphopterus glaucofraenum Gill, 1863 | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| glass gobyCoryphopterus hyalinus Böhlke & Robins, 1962 | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coryphopterus kuna Victor, 2007 | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| peppermint gobyCoryphopterus lipernes Böhlke & Robins, 1962 | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| masked gobyCoryphopterus personatus (Jordan & Thompson, 1905) | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coryphopterus venezuelae Cervigón, 1966 | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Grey Pileated FinchCoryphospingus pileatus (Wied-Neuwied, 1821) | ThraupidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Great Blue TuracoCorythaeola cristata (Vieillot, 1816) | MusophagidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Corythoichthys amplexus Dawson & Randall, 1975 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Corythoichthys benedetto Allen & Erdmann, 2008 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Corythoichthys conspicillatus (Jenyns, 1842) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Corythoichthys flavofasciatus (Rüppell, 1838) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Corythoichthys haematopterus (Bleeker, 1851) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Corythoichthys insularis Dawson, 1977 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| banded pipefishCorythoichthys intestinalis (Ramsay, 1881) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Corythoichthys nigripectus Herald, 1953 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Corythoichthys ocellatus Herald, 1953 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Corythoichthys polynotatus Dawson, 1977 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Schultz's pipefishCorythoichthys schultzi Herald, 1953 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Corythomantis botoque Marques, Haddad & Garda, 2021 | HylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ringed AntpipitCorythopis torquatus Tschudi, 1844 | TyrannidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-bellied KingfisherCorythornis leucogaster (Fraser, 1843) | AlcedinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Madagascar KingfisherCorythornis vintsioides (Eydoux & Gervais, 1836) | AlcedinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Keeled Helmeted BasiliskCorytophanes percarinatus Duméril, 1856 | CorytophanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Coscoroba SwanCoscoroba coscoroba (Molina, 1782) | AnatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cosmocampus coccineus (Herald, 1940) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cosmocampus heraldi (Fritzsche, 1980) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| dwarf pipefishCosmocampus hildebrandi (Herald, 1965) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cosmocampus howensis (Whitley, 1948) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cosmocampus investigatoris (Hora, 1926) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cosmocampus retropinnis Dawson, 1982 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cosmochilus cardinalis Chu & Roberts, 1985 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cosmochilus harmandi Sauvage, 1878 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cosmochilus nanlaensis Chen, He & He, 1992 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Archer's Ground RobinCossypha archeri Sharpe, 1902 | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-headed Robin-ChatCossypha heinrichi Rand, 1955 | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-throated Robin-ChatCossypha humeralis (A. Smith, 1836) | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Snowy-crowned Robin-ChatCossypha niveicapilla (Lafresnaye, 1838) | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Grey-winged Robin-ChatCossypha polioptera Reichenow, 1892 | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Rüppell's Robin-ChatCossypha semirufa (Rüppell, 1837) | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Lovely CotingaCotinga amabilis Gould, 1857 | CotingidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Spangled CotingaCotinga cayana (Linnaeus, 1766) | CotingidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Turquoise CotingaCotinga ridgwayi Ridgway, 1887 | CotingidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cottinella boulengeri (Berg, 1906) | AbyssocottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Schmidt's sculpinCottiusculus schmidti Jordan & Starks, 1904 | CottidaeChordata | 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.