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 |
|---|---|---|
| Andinobates claudiae (Jungfer, Lötters & Jörgens, 2000) | DendrobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Andinobates daleswansoni (Rueda-Almonacid, Rada, Sánchez-Pacheco, Velásquez-Álvarez & Quevedo-Gil, 2006) | DendrobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Andinobates dorisswansonae (Rueda-Almonacid, Rada, Sánchez-Pacheco, Velásquez-Álvarez & Quevedo-Gil, 2006) | DendrobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Andinobates minutus (Shreve, 1935) | DendrobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Andinobates supata Chaves-Portilla, Salazar, Gil, Gil-Acero, Dorado-Correa, Márquez, Rueda-Almonacid et al., 2021 | DendrobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Andinobates victimatus Márquez, Mejía-Vargas, Palacios-Rodríguez, Ramírez-Castañeda & Amézquita, 2017 | DendrobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Andinobates viridis (Myers & Daly, 1976) | DendrobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Andinobates virolinensis (Ruiz-Carranza & Ramírez-Pinilla, 1992) | DendrobatidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Andean MouseAndinomys edax Thomas, 1902 | CricetidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Andinosaura afrania (Arredondo & Sánchez-Pacheco, 2010) | GymnophthalmidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Boulenger's Lightbulb LizardAndinosaura hyposticta (Boulenger, 1902) | GymnophthalmidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Andinosaura petrorum (Kizirian, 1996) | GymnophthalmidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Andinosaura vieta (Kizirian, 1996) | GymnophthalmidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Andrias cheni Xu, Gong, Li, Jiang, Huang & Huang, 2023 | CryptobranchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chinese Giant SalamanderAndrias davidianus (Blanchard, 1871) | CryptobranchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Andrias jiangxiensis Lu, Wang, Chai, Yi, Peng, Murphy, Zhang & Che, 2022 | CryptobranchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Andrias sligoi (Boulenger, 1924) | CryptobranchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Andriashevia aptera Fedorov & Neyelov, 1978 | ZoarcidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Andriashevicottus megacephalus Fedorov, 1990 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Andromakhe saguazu (Casciotta, Almirón & Azpelicueta, 2003) | AcestrorhamphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Andromakhe stenohalina (Messner, 1962) | AcestrorhamphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Andromakhe tupi (Azpelicueta, Mirande, Almirón & Casciotta, 2003) | AcestrorhamphidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sombre GreenbulAndropadus importunus (Vieillot, 1818) | PycnonotidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Papuan WhipbirdAndrophobus viridis (Rothschild & E. J. O. Hartert, 1911) | PsophodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Green SalamanderAneides aeneus (Cope & Packard, 1881) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Aneides caryaensis Patton, Apodaca, Corser, Wilson, Williams, Cameron & Wake, 2019 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Clouded SalamanderAneides ferreus Cope, 1869 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sacramento Mountain SalamanderAneides hardii (Taylor, 1941) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Aneides iecanus (Cope, 1883) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Aneides klamathensis Reilly & Wake, 2019 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Aneides niger Myers & Maslin, 1948 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Wandering SalamanderAneides vagrans Wake & Jackman, 1999 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mexican Blind LizardAnelytropsis papillosus Cope, 1885 | DibamidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| DiCaprio’s Himalayan snakeAnguiculus dicaprioi Mirza, Bhardwaj, Pal, Lalremsanga, Vogel, Campbell & Patel, 2024 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| European eelAnguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758) | AnguillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anguilla bicolor McClelland, 1844 | AnguillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anguilla borneensis Popta, 1924 | AnguillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anguilla celebesensis Kaup, 1856 | AnguillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| New Zealand longfin eelAnguilla dieffenbachii Gray, 1842 | AnguillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anguilla interioris Whitley, 1938 | AnguillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Japanese eelAnguilla japonica Temminck & Schlegel, 1846 | AnguillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anguilla labiata (Peters, 1852) | AnguillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anguilla luzonensis Watanabe, Aoyama & Tsukamoto, 2009 | AnguillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anguilla malgumora Kaup, 1856 | AnguillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| giant mottled eelAnguilla marmorata Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 | AnguillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anguilla megastoma Kaup, 1856 | AnguillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| African longfin eelAnguilla mossambica (Peters, 1852) | AnguillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anguilla nebulosa McClelland, 1844 | AnguillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anguilla obscura Günther, 1872 | AnguillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anguilla reinhardtii Steindachner, 1867 | AnguillidaeChordata | 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.