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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon RacerunnerAmeiva ameiva (Linnaeus, 1758) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Amazon RacerunnerAmeiva atrigularis Garman, 1887 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ameiva concolor Ruthven, 1924 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ameiva jacuba Giugliano, Nogueira, Valdujo, Collevatti & Colli, 2013 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ameiva pantherina Ugueto & Harvey, 2011 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ameiva parecis (Colli, Costa, Garda, Kopp, Mesquita, Péres, Valdujo, Vieira & Wiederhecker, 2003) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Amazon RacerunnerAmeiva praesignis (Baird & Girard, 1852) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Antillean AmeivaAmeiva tobagana Cope, 1879 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ameivula abalosi (Cabrera, 2012) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ameivula apipensis Arias, Recoder, Álvarez, Etchepare, Quipildor, Lobo & Rodrigues, 2018 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ameivula cipoensis Arias, Carvalho, Zaher & Rodrigues, 2014 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ameivula confusioniba (Arias, DE Carvalho, Rodrigues & Zaher, 2011) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ameivula jalapensis (Colli, Giugliano, Mesquita & Franca, 2009) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ameivula mumbuca (Colli, Caldwell, Costa, Gainsbury, Garda, Mesquita, Filho, Soares, Silva, Valdujo, Vieira, Vitt, Werneck, Wiederhecker & Zatz, 2003) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ameivula nigrigula (Arias, DE Carvalho, Rodrigues & Zaher, 2011) | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ameivula xacriaba Arias, Texeira Jr., Recoder, Carvalho, Zaher & Rodrigues, 2014 | TeiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Amerana boylii (Baird, 1854) | RanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amerana cascadae (Slater, 1939) | RanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amerana luteiventris (Thompson, 1913) | RanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amerana muscosa (Camp, 1917) | RanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amerana pretiosa (Baird & Girard, 1853) | RanidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amerotyphlops arenensis Graboski, Pereira-Filho, Silva, Costa Prudente & Zaher, 2015 | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Costa Rica Worm SnakeAmerotyphlops costaricensis (Jiménez & Savage, 1963) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Estado Falcón Worm SnakeAmerotyphlops lehneri (Roux, 1926) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Basin Worm SnakeAmerotyphlops minuisquamus (Dixon & Hendricks, 1979) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Amerotyphlops montanum Graboski, Arredondo, Grazziotin, Guerra-Fuentes, Silva, Prudente, Pinto, Rodrigues, Bonatto & Zaher, 2022 | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pernambuco Worm SnakeAmerotyphlops paucisquamus (Dixon & Hendricks, 1979) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Reticulate Worm SnakeAmerotyphlops reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Grenada Bank BlindsnakeAmerotyphlops tasymicris (Thomas, 1974) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Amerotyphlops tycherus (Townsend, Wilson, Ketzler & Luque-Montes, 2008) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Yonenga Worm SnakeAmerotyphlops yonenagae (Rodrigues, 1991) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Little White-shouldered BatAmetrida centurio Gray, 1847 | PhyllostomidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| bowfinAmia calva Linnaeus, 1766 | AmiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Amia ocellicauda Todd, 1837 | AmiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Amietia angolensis (Barboza du Bocage, 1866) | PyxicephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amietia chapini (Noble, 1924) | PyxicephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amietia delalandii (Duméril & Bibron, 1841) | PyxicephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amietia desaegeri (Laurent, 1972) | PyxicephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amietia fuscigula (Duméril & Bibron, 1841) | PyxicephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amietia hymenopus (Boulenger, 1920) | PyxicephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amietia inyangae (Poynton, 1966) | PyxicephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amietia johnstoni (Günther, 1894) | PyxicephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amietia moyerorum Channing, Dehling, Lötters & Ernst, 2016 | PyxicephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amietia nutti (Boulenger, 1896) | PyxicephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amietia poyntoni Channing & Baptista, 2013 | PyxicephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amietia ruwenzorica (Laurent, 1972) | PyxicephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amietia tenuoplicata (Pickersgill, 2007) | PyxicephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amietia vertebralis (Hewitt, 1927) | PyxicephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amietia wittei (Angel, 1924) | PyxicephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Amioides polyacanthus (Vaillant, 1877) | ApogonidaeChordata | 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.