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 |
|---|---|---|
| Black-faced Brush FinchAtlapetes melanolaemus (P. L. Sclater & Salvin, 1879) | PasserellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-spectacled Brush FinchAtlapetes melanopsis Valqui & Fjeldså, 2002 | PasserellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Merida Brush-finchAtlapetes meridae (P. L. Sclater & Salvin, 1871) | PasserellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Rusty-bellied Brush FinchAtlapetes nationi (P. L. Sclater, 1881) | PasserellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Rufous-capped Brush FinchAtlapetes pileatus Wagler, 1831 | PasserellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Slaty Brush FinchAtlapetes schistaceus (Boissonneau, 1840) | PasserellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Vilcabamba Brush FinchAtlapetes terborghi Remsen, 1993 | PasserellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Tricolored Brush FinchAtlapetes tricolor (Taczanowski, 1875) | PasserellidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Atopochilus christyi Boulenger, 1920 | MochokidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atopochilus mandevillei Poll, 1959 | MochokidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atopochilus pachychilus Pellegrin, 1924 | MochokidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atopochilus savorgnani Sauvage, 1879 | MochokidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atopochilus vogti Pellegrin, 1922 | MochokidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atopocottus tribranchius Bolin, 1936 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arabian Small-Scaled Burrowing AspAtractaspis andersonii Boulenger, 1905 | AtractaspididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bibron’s Stiletto SnakeAtractaspis bibronii Smith, 1849 | AtractaspididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Branch’s Stiletto SnakeAtractaspis branchi Rödel, Kucharzewski, Mahlow, Chirio, Pauwels, Carlino, Sambolah & Glos, 2019 | AtractaspididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Congo Stiletto SnakeAtractaspis congica Peters, 1877 | AtractaspididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mole ViperAtractaspis corpulenta (Hallowell, 1854) | AtractaspididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Israeli Mole ViperAtractaspis engaddensis Haas, 1950 | AtractaspididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mole ViperAtractaspis engdahli Lönnberg & Andersson, 1913 | AtractaspididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mole ViperAtractaspis leucomelas Boulenger, 1895 | AtractaspididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Magretti’s Burrowing AspAtractaspis magrettii Scortecci, 1929 | AtractaspididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| (Western) Small-Scaled Burrowing AspAtractaspis microlepidota Günther, 1866 | AtractaspididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Sahelian Burrowing AspAtractaspis micropholis Günther, 1872 | AtractaspididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Phillips’ Burrowing AspAtractaspis phillipsi Barbour, 1913 | AtractaspididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Mole ViperAtractaspis reticulata Sjöstedt, 1896 | AtractaspididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Watson’s Burrowing AspAtractaspis watsoni Boulenger, 1908 | AtractaspididaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractodenchelys phrix Robins & Robins, 1970 | SynaphobranchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractodenchelys robinsorum Karmovskaya, 2003 | SynaphobranchidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractoscion atelodus (Günther, 1867) | SciaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractoscion macrolepis Song, Kim & Kim in Song, Kim, Kang & Kim, 2017 | SciaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| white seabassAtractoscion nobilis (Ayres, 1860) | SciaenidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| tropical garAtractosteus tropicus Gill, 1863 | LepisosteidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus aboiporu Melo-Sampaio, Passos, Fouquet, Costa-Prudente & Torres-Carvajal, 2019 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus akerios Melo-Sampaio, Passos, Prudente, Venegas & Torres-Carvajal, 2021 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus alytogrammus Köhler & Kieckbusch, 2014 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Andean Ground SnakeAtractus andinus Prado, 1944 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Big Ground SnakeAtractus arangoi Prado, 1940 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus atratus Passos & Lynch, 2010 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus attenuatus Myers & Schargel, 2006 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Bock's Ground SnakeAtractus bocki Werner, 1909 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus boulengerii Peracca, 1896 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus caete Passos, Fernandes, Bérnils & Moura-Leite, 2010 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus careolepis Köhler & Kieckbusch, 2014 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Parker's Ground SnakeAtractus carrioni Parker, 1930 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cerberus GroundsnakeAtractus cerberus Arteaga, Mebert, Valencia, Cisneros-Heredia, Peñafiel, Reyes-Puig, Vieira-Fernandes & Guayasamin, 2017 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Atractus chthonius Passos & Lynch, 2010 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Clark's Ground SnakeAtractus clarki Dunn & Bailey, 1939 | ColubridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Thickhead Ground SnakeAtractus crassicaudatus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) | ColubridaeChordata | 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.