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 |
|---|---|---|
| American eelAnguilla rostrata (Lesueur, 1817) | AnguillidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Peloponnese Slow WormAnguis cephallonica Werner, 1894 | AnguidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Slow WormAnguis colchica (Nordmann, 1840) | AnguidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Slow WormAnguis fragilis Linnaeus, 1758 | AnguidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Greek Slow WormAnguis graeca Bedriaga, 1881 | AnguidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Italian Slow WormAnguis veronensis Pollini, 1818 | AnguidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Horned ScreamerAnhima cornuta (Linnaeus, 1766) | AnhimidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| AnhingaAnhinga anhinga (Linnaeus, 1766) | AnhingidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Oriental DarterAnhinga melanogaster Pennant, 1769 | AnhingidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Australasian DarterAnhinga novaehollandiae (Gould, 1847) | AnhingidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| African DarterAnhinga rufa (Daudin, 1802) | AnhingidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Anhydrophryne hewitti (FitzSimons, 1947) | PyxicephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Anhydrophryne ngongoniensis (Bishop & Passmore, 1993) | PyxicephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Anhydrophryne rattrayi Hewitt, 1919 | PyxicephalidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Anilany helenae (Vallan, 2000) | MicrohylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Small-headed Blind SnakeAnilios affinis (Boulenger, 1889) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anilios ammodytes (Montague, 1914) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anilios aspina (Couper, Covacevich & Wilson, 1998) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Southern Blind SnakeAnilios australis Gray, 1845 | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Batillus Blind SnakeAnilios batillus (Waite, 1894) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anilios bicolor (Peters, 1858) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Prong-snouted Blind SnakeAnilios bituberculatus (Peters, 1863) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Faint-striped Blind SnakeAnilios broomi (Boulenger, 1898) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Centralian Blind SnakeAnilios centralis (Storr, 1984) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cape York Striped Blind SnakeAnilios chamodracaena (Ingram & Covacevich, 1993) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Northern Blind SnakeAnilios diversus (Waite, 1894) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Interior Blind SnakeAnilios endoterus (Waite, 1918) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Northern New Guinea blindsnakeAnilios erycinus (Werner, 1901) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anilios fossor Shea, 2015 | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anilios ganei (Aplin, 1998) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| long-beaked Blind SnakeAnilios grypus (Waite, 1918) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Top End Blind SnakeAnilios guentheri (Peters, 1865) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Pale-headed Blind SnakeAnilios hamatus (Storr, 1981) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kimberley deep-soil Blind SnakeAnilios howi (Storr, 1983) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Fassifern Blind SnakeAnilios insperatus Venchi, Wilson & Borsboom, 2015 | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Kimberley Shallow-soil Blind SnakeAnilios kimberleyensis (Storr, 1981) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Murchison Blind SnakeAnilios leptosoma (Robb, 1972) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| White-tailed blindsnakeAnilios leucoproctus (Boulenger, 1889) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Robust Blind SnakeAnilios ligatus (Peters, 1879) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anilios longissimus (Aplin, 1998) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Buff-snouted Blind SnakeAnilios margaretae (Storr, 1981) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Small-eyed Blind SnakeAnilios micromma (Storr, 1981) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Groote Dwarf Blind SnakeAnilios minimus (Kinghorn, 1929) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anilios nema (Shea & Horner, 1997) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Blackish Blind SnakeAnilios nigrescens Gray, 1845 | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anilios pilbarensis (Aplin & Donnellan, 1993) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Rotund Blind SnakeAnilios pinguis (Waite, 1897) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Proximus Blind SnakeAnilios proximus (Waite, 1893) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Anilios robertsi (Couper, Covacevich & Wilson, 1998) | TyphlopidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Great Sandy Blind SnakeAnilios silvia (Ingram & Covacevich, 1993) | TyphlopidaeChordata | 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.