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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alethe castanea (Cassin, 1856) | MuscicapidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alexandre's lizardAlexandresaurus camacan Rodrigues, Pellegrino, Dixo, Verdade, Pavan, Argolo & Sites, 2007 | GymnophthalmidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Alfaro cultratus (Regan, 1908) | PoeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Alfaro huberi (Fowler, 1923) | PoeciliidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Riffle ChubAlgansea aphanea Barbour & Miller, 1978 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Algansea barbata Álvarez & Cortés, 1964 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mountain ChubAlgansea monticola Barbour & Contreras-Balderas, 1968 | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Popoche ChubAlgansea popoche (Jordan & Snyder, 1899) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Spanish Keeled LizardAlgyroides hidalgoi Bosca, 1916 | LacertidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Alionematichthys ceylonensis Møller & Schwarzhans, 2008 | DinematichthyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Alionematichthys minyomma (Sedor & Cohen, 1987) | DinematichthyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Alionematichthys phuketensis Møller & Schwarzhans, 2008 | DinematichthyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Alionematichthys piger (Alcock, 1890) | DinematichthyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Alionematichthys samoaensis Møller & Schwarzhans, 2008 | DinematichthyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Alionematichthys shinoharai Møller & Schwarzhans, 2008 | DinematichthyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Alionematichthys winterbottomi Møller & Schwarzhans, 2008 | DinematichthyidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mindanao Pygmy Fruit BatAlionycteris paucidentata Kock, 1969 | PteropodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Moluccan King ParrotAlisterus amboinensis (Linnaeus, 1766) | PsittaculidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Papuan King ParrotAlisterus chloropterus (E. P. Ramsay, 1879) | PsittaculidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Small Five-toed JerboaAllactaga (Allactaga) elater (Lichtenstein, 1828) | DipodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Hotson's Five-toed JerboaAllactaga (Allactaga) hotsoni Thomas, 1920 | DipodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Severtzov's JerboaAllactaga (Allactaga) severtzovi Vinogradov, 1925 | DipodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Vinogradov's JerboaAllactaga (Allactaga) vinogradovi Argyropulo, 1941 | DipodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Balikun JerboaAllactaga (Orientallactaga) balikunica Hsia & Fang, 1964 | DipodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gobi JerboaAllactaga (Orientallactaga) bullata G. M. Allen, 1925 | DipodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mongolian Five-toed JerboaAllactaga (Orientallactaga) sibirica (Forster, 1778) | DipodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Euphrates JerboaAllactaga (Paralactaga) euphratica Thomas, 1881 | DipodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Allactaga toussi Darvish, Hajjar, Matin, Haddad & Akbary rad, 2008 | DipodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bobrinski's JerboaAllactodipus bobrinskii Kolesnikov, 1937 | DipodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Allenbatrachus meridionalis Greenfield & Smith, 2004 | BatrachoididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Allenbatrachus reticulatus (Steindachner, 1870) | BatrachoididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scaly-breasted ThrasherAllenia fusca (P. L. S. Müller, 1776) | MimidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Allenichthys glauerti (Whitley, 1944) | HistiophrynidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Allen's Swamp MonkeyAllenopithecus nigroviridis (Pocock, 1907) | CercopithecidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chinese alligatorAlligator sinensis Fauvel, 1879 | AlligatoridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Allinectes attenuatus (Gilbert & Burke, 1912) | LiparidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Allinectes busbyi Orr, 2025 | LiparidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Allinectes curilanus (Gilbert & Burke, 1912) | LiparidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Allinectes ectenes (Gilbert, 1896) | LiparidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Allinectes pycnosoma (Gilbert & Burke, 1912) | LiparidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Allobates algorei Barrio-Amorós & Santos, 2009 | AromobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Allobates amissibilis Kok, Hölting & Ernst, 2013 | AromobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Allobates bacurau Simões, 2016 | AromobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Allobates bromelicola (Test, 1956) | AromobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Allobates brunneus (Cope, 1887) | AromobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Allobates caeruleodactylus (Lima & Caldwell, 2001) | AromobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Allobates caldwellae Lima, Ferrão & Silva, 2020 | AromobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Allobates carajas Simões, Rojas & Lima, 2019 | AromobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Allobates caribe (Barrio-Amorós, Rivas-Fuenmayor & Kaiser, 2006) | AromobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Allobates chalcopis (Kaiser, Coloma & Gray, 1994) | AromobatidaeChordata | 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.