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 |
|---|---|---|
| Distenia tavakiliani Santos-Silva & Hovore, 2007 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Distenia tonkinea Villiers, 1958 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Distenia tricostata Chiang & Wu, 1987 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Distenia tuberosa Pu, 1985 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Disterna maculata (McKeown, 1938) | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Disterna mastersii Pascoe, 1871 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Disterna norfolkensis (McKeown, 1938) | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Disterna papuana (Breuning, 1939) | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Disterna pumila (Pascoe, 1859) | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Disterna spinipennis (Breuning, 1960) | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Distichites gethingi McLearn, 1940 | DistichitidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Distichites harpalos (Dittmar, 1866) | DistichitidaeMollusca | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Distichlicoccus alkalinus (Cockerell, 1902) | PseudococcidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| yellow mealybugDistichlicoccus californicus (Ehrhorn, 1911) | PseudococcidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| large-circulus mealybugDistichlicoccus megacirculus McKenzie, 1967 | PseudococcidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichlicoccus sahuayoensis Williams & Granara de Willink, 1992 | PseudococcidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| salt grass mealybugDistichlicoccus salinus (Cockerell, 1902) | PseudococcidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichocera gigantea Fuchs, 1963 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Distichocera macleayi Newman, 1851 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Distichocera superba Van de Poll, 1887 | CerambycidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Distichodus affinis Günther, 1873 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus altus Boulenger, 1899 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus antonii Schilthuis, 1891 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus atroventralis Boulenger, 1898 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus brevipinnis Günther, 1864 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus decemmaculatus Pellegrin, 1926 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus engycephalus Günther, 1864 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus fasciolatus Boulenger, 1898 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus ingae Moelants & Snoeks, 2018 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus kolleri Holly, 1926 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus langi Nichols & Griscom, 1917 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus lusosso Schilthuis, 1891 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus maculatus Boulenger, 1898 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus microps Schmidt, Knobloch & Barrientos, 2021 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus mossambicus Peters, 1852 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus nefasch (Bonnaterre, 1788) | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus noboli Boulenger, 1899 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus notospilus Günther, 1867 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus petersii Pfeffer, 1896 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus rostratus Günther, 1864 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus rufigiensis Norman, 1922 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus schenga Peters, 1852 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus sexfasciatus Boulenger, 1897 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichodus teugelsi Mamonekene & Vreven, 2008 | DistichodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichona atrophopoda (Townsend, 1919) | TachinidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichona auriceps Coquillett, 1904 | TachinidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichona cubensis Curran, 1927 | TachinidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichona discrepans (Wulp, 1890) | TachinidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichona georgiae (Brauer & Bergenstamm, 1891) | TachinidaeArthropoda | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Distichopathes disticha Opresko, 2004 | PteridopathidaeCnidaria | 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.