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 |
|---|---|---|
| Desimia (Desimia) frontalis Raffray, 1887 | StaphylinidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desimia (Desimia) microphthalama Jeannel, 1960 | StaphylinidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desimia (Desimia) mutica Jeannel, 1960 | StaphylinidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desimia (Desimia) parvipalpis (Raffray, 1873) | StaphylinidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desimia (Desimiella) dartevellei (Jeannel, 1950) | StaphylinidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desimia caviceps Raffray, 1904 | StaphylinidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desimia masaica Jeannel, 1959 | StaphylinidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desimia microcephala Jeannel, 1959 | StaphylinidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desimia rugosiventris Jeannel, 1959 | StaphylinidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desis inermis Gravely, 1927 | DesidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desis marina (Hector, 1878) | DesidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desis risbeci Berland, 1931 | DesidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desis tangana Roewer, 1955 | DesidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desis vorax L. Koch, 1872 | DesidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desisa (Cylindrostyrax) marmorata Breuning, 1938 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desisa (Cylindrostyrax) takasagoana Matsushita, 1933 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desisa celebensis Breuning, 1959 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desisa malaccensis Breuning, 1938 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desisa variabilis (Schwarzer, 1925) | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desisella strandiella Breuning, 1942 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desisopsis maculata Hüdepohl, 1995 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desmacella ambigua Bergquist & Fromont, 1988 | DesmacellidaePorifera | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desmacella democratica (Sollas, 1902) | DesmacellidaePorifera | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desmacella dendyi Laubenfels, 1936 | DesmacellidaePorifera | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desmacella inornata (Bowerbank, 1866) | DesmacellidaePorifera | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desmacella ithystela Hooper, 1984 | DesmacellidaePorifera | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desmacella koltuni Göcke & Janussen, 2013 | DesmacellidaePorifera | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desmacella microsigma (Lévi, 1964) | DesmacellidaePorifera | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desmacella polysigmata van Soest, 1984 | DesmacellidaePorifera | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desmacella pumilio Schmidt, 1870 | DesmacellidaePorifera | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desmacella tylovariabilis Cavalcanti, Santos & Pinheiro, 2015 | DesmacellidaePorifera | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desmacella vagabunda Schmidt, 1870 | DesmacellidaePorifera | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| White-winged Flying FoxDesmalopex leucopterus (Temminck, 1853) | PteropodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mindoro Pallid Flying FoxDesmalopex microleucopterus Esselstyn, Garcia, Saulog & Heaney, 2008 | PteropodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| DesmanDesmana moschata (Linnaeus, 1758) | TalpidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desmanthus incrustans (Topsent, 1889) | DesmanthidaePorifera | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desmapsamma anchorata (Carter, 1882) | DesmacididaePorifera | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desmascula desdemona de Laubenfels, 1950 | AzoricidaePorifera | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desmatelesia coerulea (Canu & Bassler, 1929) | PlagioeciidaeBryozoa | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desmatomyia jambalaia Hall & Evenhuis, 1987 | BombyliidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desmatoneura argentifrons Williston, 1895 | BombyliidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desmatoneura brevipennis (Bezzi, 1924) | BombyliidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desmatoneura erythrostoma (Rondani, 1873) | BombyliidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desmatoneura flavifrons (Becker, 1915) | BombyliidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desmatoneura sardous (Macquart, 1849) | BombyliidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desmatoneura sica Greathead, 1969 | BombyliidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desmaulus extinctorium (Lamarck, 1822) | CalyptraeidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desmechinus rufus (Bell, 1894) | EchinoideaEchinodermata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desmella clarinetta (Munro, 1939) | TephritidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Desmella rostellata (Séguy, 1941) | TephritidaeArthropoda | 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.