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 |
|---|---|---|
| reticulate stargazerDactyloscopus foraminosus Dawson, 1982 | DactyloscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dactyloscopus heraldi Dawson, 1975 | DactyloscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dactyloscopus insulatus Dawson, 1975 | DactyloscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dactyloscopus lacteus (Myers & Wade, 1946) | DactyloscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| moonstruck stargazerDactyloscopus lunaticus Gilbert, 1890 | DactyloscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mexican stargazerDactyloscopus metoecus Dawson, 1975 | DactyloscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| tiny stargazerDactyloscopus minutus Dawson, 1975 | DactyloscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| speckled stargazerDactyloscopus moorei (Fowler, 1906) | DactyloscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dactyloscopus pectoralis Gill, 1861 | DactyloscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dactyloscopus poeyi Gill, 1861 | DactyloscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| sand stargazerDactyloscopus tridigitatus Gill, 1859 | DactyloscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dactyloscopus zelotes Jordan & Gilbert, 1896 | DactyloscopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dactylospongia metachromia (de Laubenfels, 1954) | ThorectidaePorifera | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dactylosternum abdominale (Fabricius, 1792) | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum advectum Horn, 1890 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum americanum (Mulsant, 1844) | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum arabicum Balfour-Browne, J., 1951 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum arrowi Knisch, 1924 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum auripes Fauvel, 1883 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum bryanti Orchymont, 1925 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum cacti (LeConte, J. L., 1855) | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum cassidaeforme (Brullé, 1835) | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum circumcinctum Fikáček, 2010 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum coelostomoides Orchymont, 1923 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum corporaali Orchymont, 1923 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum densepunctatum Orchymont, 1937 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum desertum Hebauer, 2001 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum dispar (Sharp, 1882) | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum falsum Hebauer, 2001 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum helleri Orchymont, 1925 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum hydrophiloides (MacLeay, W. S., 1825) | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum ilaganum Hebauer, 2001 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum inaequale Knisch, 1921 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum indicum Orchymont, 1923 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum kanakorum Fikáček, 2010 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum picicorne (Mulsant, 1844) | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum prabhaae Jayaswal, 1971 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum profundum Régimbart, 1907 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum proxime Orchymont, 1923 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum pui Jia, Feng-Long, 2002 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum punctigerum Knisch, 1924 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum scutellare Régimbart, 1907 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum subdepressum (Laporte de Castelnau, 1840) | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum subrotundum (Fabricius, 1792) | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylosternum trilobatum Hebauer, 2001 | HydrophilidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dactylostomum armatum (Dwivedi, 1975) Cribb, 2005 | OpecoelidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dactylostomum caballeroi Martin, 1960 | OpecoelidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dactylostomum cribbi Gibson, Bray & Langdon, 1990 | OpecoelidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dactylostomum epinepheli Wang, 1982 | OpecoelidaePlatyhelminthes | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dactylostomum griffithsi Bray, 1987 | OpecoelidaePlatyhelminthes | 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.