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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alosa curensis (Suvorov, 1907) | AlosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| shadAlosa fallax (Lacepède, 1803) | AlosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Alosa kessleri (Grimm, 1887) | AlosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Black Sea shadAlosa maeotica (Grimm, 1901) | AlosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| ale-wifeAlosa pseudoharengus (Wilson, 1811) | AlosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| American shadAlosa sapidissima (Wilson, 1811) | AlosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Alosa sphaerocephala (Berg, 1913) | AlosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Alosa suworowi (Berg, 1913) | AlosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Alosa vistonica Economidis & Sinis, 1986 | AlosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Volga shadAlosa volgensis (Berg, 1913) | AlosidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Red-handed HowlerAlouatta belzebul (Linnaeus, 1766) | AtelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black HowlerAlouatta caraya (Humboldt, 1812) | AtelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Spix's HowlerAlouatta discolor (Spix, 1823) | AtelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Central American Black HowlerAlouatta pigra Lawrence, 1933 | AtelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bolivian Red HowlerAlouatta sara Elliot, 1910 | AtelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Colombian Red HowlerAlouatta seniculus (Linnaeus, 1766) | AtelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| mutton hamletAlphestes afer (Bloch, 1793) | EpinephelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| rivulated mutton hamletAlphestes multiguttatus (Günther, 1867) | EpinephelidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Alpinoscincus alpinus (Greer, Allison & Cogger, 2005) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Alpinoscincus subalpinus (Greer, Allison & Cogger, 2005) | ScincidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Medog moleAlpiscaptulus medogensis Jiang & Chen in Chen et al., 2021 | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alsodes barrioi Veloso, Diaz, Iturra-Constant & Penna, 1981 | AlsodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alsodes cantillanensis Charrier, Correa-Quezada, Castro & Méndez-Torres, 2015 | AlsodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alsodes coppingeri (Günther, 1881) | AlsodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alsodes gargola Gallardo, 1970 | AlsodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alsodes igneus Cuevas & Formas, 2005 | AlsodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alsodes kaweshkari Formas, Cuevas & Nuñez, 1998 | AlsodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alsodes montanus (Lataste in Philippi, 1902) | AlsodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alsodes norae Cuevas, 2008 | AlsodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alsodes pehuenche Cei, 1976 | AlsodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alsodes tumultuosus Veloso, Iturra-Constant & Galleguillos-G., 1979 | AlsodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alsodes vanzolinii (Donoso-Barros, 1974) | AlsodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alsodes verrucosus (Philippi, 1902) | AlsodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Alsodes vittatus (Philippi, 1902) | AlsodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Terre-de-Bas RacerAlsophis danforthi Cochran, 1938 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anguilla Bank RacerAlsophis rijgersmaei Cope, 1870 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Terre-De-Haut RacerAlsophis sanctonum Barbour, 1915 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dominica RacerAlsophis sibonius Cope, 1879 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Alsophylax emilia Nazarov, Abduraupov, Shepelya, Gritsina, Melnikov, Buehler, Lapin, Poyarkov & Grismer, 2023 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Southern Even-fingered GeckoAlsophylax laevis Nikolsky, 1907 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kaspischer Even-fingered GeckoAlsophylax pipiens (Pallas, 1827) | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Tadjik Pygmy geckoAlsophylax tadjikiensis Golubev, 1979 | GekkonidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Althoffia tumida Lohmann, 1892 | OikopleuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| White-tailed Mountain VoleAlticola (Alticola) albicaudus (True, 1894) | CricetidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Silver Mountain VoleAlticola (Alticola) argentatus (Severtzov, 1879) | CricetidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gobi Altai Mountain VoleAlticola (Alticola) barakshin Bannikov, 1947 | CricetidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Central Kashmir VoleAlticola (Alticola) montosa (True, 1894) | CricetidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Royle's High Mountain VoleAlticola (Alticola) roylei (Gray, 1842) | CricetidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mongolian Mountain VoleAlticola (Alticola) semicanus (G. M. Allen, 1924) | CricetidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Stoliczka's High Mountain VoleAlticola (Alticola) stoliczkanus (Blanford, 1875) | CricetidaeChordata | 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.