Animals
- black carpet beetle
- a carpet beetle that is solid black in color
- chough
- a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage
- Pithecanthropus erectus
- former genus of primitive apelike men now Homo erectus
- Iguana iguana
- large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America
- lionfish
- brightly striped fish of the tropical Pacific having elongated spiny fins
- Clupea harengus pallasii
- important food fish of the northern Pacific
- Mandrillus sphinx
- baboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters
- murre
- black-and-white diving bird of northern seas
- Meleagris gallopavo
- large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
- Spodoptera exigua
- moth larva that eats foliage of beets and other vegetables
- church mouse
- a fictional mouse created by Lewis Carroll
- Geococcyx californianus
- speedy largely terrestrial bird found from California and Mexico to Texas
- opossum shrimp
- shrimp-like crustaceans whose females carry eggs and young in a pouch between the legs
- Trichosurus vulpecula
- bushy-tailed phalanger
- Algeripithecus minutus
- tiny (150 to 300 grams) extinct primate of 46 to 50 million years ago; fossils found in Algeria; considered by some authorities the leading candidate for the first anthropoid
- finch
- any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds
- lyre snake
- mildly venomous snake with a lyre-shaped mark on the head; found in rocky areas from southwestern United States to Central America
- blennioid
- elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins
- Polyodon spathula
- primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout
- teredo
- typical shipworm
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