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 |
|---|---|---|
| powder-blue surgeonfishAcanthurus leucosternon Bennett, 1833 | AcanthuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| lined surgeonfishAcanthurus lineatus (Linnaeus, 1758) | AcanthuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| blue-lined surgeonfishAcanthurus mata (Cuvier, 1829) | AcanthuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthurus monroviae Steindachner, 1876 | AcanthuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| backsurgeonfishAcanthurus nigricans (Linnaeus, 1758) | AcanthuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| brown surgeonfishAcanthurus nigrofuscus (Forsskål, 1775) | AcanthuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| bluelined surgeonfishAcanthurus nigroris Valenciennes, 1835 | AcanthuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthurus reversus Randall & Earle, 1999 | AcanthuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Red Sea surgeonfishAcanthurus sohal (Forsskål, 1775) | AcanthuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Thompson's surgeonfishAcanthurus thompsoni (Fowler, 1923) | AcanthuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| ocean surgeonfishAcanthurus tractus Poey, 1860 | AcanthuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| convict surgeonfishAcanthurus triostegus (Linnaeus, 1758) | AcanthuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acanthurus tristis Randall, 1993 | AcanthuridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acantopsis dialuzona Van Hasselt, 1823 | CobitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acantopsis dinema Boyd & Page, 2017 | CobitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acantopsis ioa Boyd & Page, 2017 | CobitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acantopsis multistigmatus Vishwanath & Laisram, 2005 | CobitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acantopsis octoactinotos Siebert, 1991 | CobitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acantopsis rungthipae Boyd, Nithirojpakdee & Page, 2017 | CobitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acantopsis spectabilis (Blyth, 1860) | CobitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acantopsis thiemmedhi Sontirat, 1999 | CobitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acapoeta tanganicae (Boulenger, 1900) | CyprinidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acarichthys heckelii (Müller & Troschel, 1849) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acarobythites larsonae Machida, 2000 | BythitidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acaronia nassa (Heckel, 1840) | CichlidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| White-breasted HawkAccipiter chionogaster (Kaup, 1852) | AccipitridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Rufous-thighed HawkAccipiter erythronemius (Kaup, 1850) | AccipitridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Madagascan SparrowhawkAccipiter madagascariensis J. Verreaux, 1833 | AccipitridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Eurasian SparrowhawkAccipiter nisus (Linnaeus, 1758) | AccipitridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus Vieillot, 1808 | AccipitridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Acentrogobius dayi Koumans, 1941 | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acentrogobius griseus (Day, 1876) | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acentrogobius janthinopterus (Bleeker, 1853) | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acentrogobius masoni (Day, 1873) | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acentrogobius multifasciatus (Herre, 1927) | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acentrogobius nigromaculatus Koreeda & Motomura, 2025 | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acentrogobius pellidebilis Lee & Kim, 1992 | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acentrogobius pflaumii (Bleeker, 1853) | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acentrogobius simplex (Sauvage, 1880) | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acentrogobius suluensis (Herre, 1927) | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acentrogobius therezieni Kiener, 1963 | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acentrogobius vanderloosi Allen, 2015 | GobiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acentronura gracilissima (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850) | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acentronura tentaculata Günther, 1870 | SyngnathidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acentrophryne longidens Regan, 1926 | LinophrynidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sulawesi Flying FoxAcerodon celebensis (Peters, 1867) | PteropodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sunda Flying FoxAcerodon macklotii (Temminck, 1837) | PteropodidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Acestridium dichromum Retzer, Nico & Provenzano, 1999 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acestridium discus Haseman, 1911 | LoricariidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acestridium gymnogaster Reis & Lehmann A., 2009 | LoricariidaeChordata | 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.