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 |
|---|---|---|
| tete sea catfishAriopsis seemanni (Günther, 1864) | AriidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma anago (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma anagoides (Bleeker, 1853) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| longtrunk congerAriosoma anale (Poey, 1860) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| bandtooth congerAriosoma balearicum (Delaroche, 1809) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma bauchotae Karrer, 1983 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma dolichopterum Karmovskaya, 2015 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma emmae Smith & Ho, 2018 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| sharpnose congerAriosoma gilberti (Ogilby, 1898) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma gnanadossi Talwar & Mukherjee, 1977 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma gracile Kodeeswaran, Kathirvelpandian, Mohapatra, Kumar & Sarkar, 2024 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma indicum Kodeeswaran, Kathirvelpandian, Acharya, Mohanty, Mohapatra, Kumar & Lal, 2022 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma majus (Asano, 1958) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| blunttooth congerAriosoma mauritianum (Pappenheim, 1914) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma maurostigma Kodeeswaran, Mohapatra, Dhinakaran, Kumar & Lal, 2022 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma megalops Fowler, 1938 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma mellissii (Günther, 1870) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma multivertebratum Karmovskaya, 2004 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma nigrimanum Norman, 1939 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma obud Herre, 1923 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma ophidiophthalmus Karmovskaya, 1991 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma opistophthalmum (Ranzani, 1839) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma prorigerum (Gilbert, 1891) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma sanzoi (D'Ancona, 1928) | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma sazonovi Karmovskaya, 2004 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma sereti Karmovskaya, 2004 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma sokotranum Karmovskaya, 1991 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Ariosoma tamilicum Kodeeswaran, Acharya, Mohapatra & Kumar, 2025 | CongridaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cochran's Caribbean GeckoAristelliger cochranae Grant, 1931 | SphaerodactylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hispaniolan Desert Croaking GeckoAristelliger expectatus Cochran, 1933 | SphaerodactylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Saint George Island Croaking GeckoAristelliger georgeensis (Bocourt, 1873) | SphaerodactylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Caicos Croaking GeckoAristelliger hechti Schwartz & Crombie, 1975 | SphaerodactylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Croaking Lizard (Jamaica)Aristelliger praesignis (Hallowell, 1856) | SphaerodactylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cuban Croaking GeckoAristelliger reyesi Diaz & Hedges, 2009 | SphaerodactylidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Aristostomias grimaldii Zugmayer, 1913 | StomiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| loosejawAristostomias lunifer Regan & Trewavas, 1930 | StomiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Shiny loosejawAristostomias scintillans (Gilbert, 1915) | StomiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| loosejawAristostomias tittmanni Welsh, 1923 | StomiidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arius acutirostris Day, 1877 | AriidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| African sea catfishArius africanus Günther, 1867 | AriidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arius arenarius (Müller & Troschel, 1849) | AriidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arius arius (Hamilton, 1822) | AriidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arius brunellii Zolezzi, 1939 | AriidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arius dispar Herre, 1926 | AriidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arius festinus Ng & Sparks, 2003 | AriidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arius gagora (Hamilton, 1822) | AriidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arius leptonotacanthus Bleeker, 1849 | AriidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arius macracanthus Günther, 1864 | AriidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Madagascar sea catfishArius madagascariensis Vaillant, 1894 | AriidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arius malabaricus Day, 1877 | AriidaeChordata | 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.