diff --git a/doc/modules/classes.rst b/doc/modules/classes.rst
index cc2ebd6dfadb7..494b2146945ea 100644
--- a/doc/modules/classes.rst
+++ b/doc/modules/classes.rst
@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ Loaders
    datasets.load_mlcomp
    datasets.load_sample_image
    datasets.load_sample_images
+   datasets.fetch_species_distributions
    datasets.load_svmlight_file
    datasets.load_svmlight_files
    datasets.dump_svmlight_file