Animals

Neotoma cinerea
any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects
 
Trialeurodes vaporariorum
whitefly that inhabits greenhouses
 
Brama raii
deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food
 
pony
an informal term for a racehorse
 
caecilian
any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions
 
Ursus arctos syriacus
yellowish-grey Syrian brown bear
 
Addax nasomaculatus
large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of northern Africa
 
billfish
elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters
 
ceratosaur
primitive medium-sized theropod; swift-running bipedal carnivorous dinosaur having grasping hands with sharp claws and a short horn between the nostrils; Jurassic in North America
 
Iridoprocne bicolor
bluish-green-and-white North American swallow; nests in tree cavities
 
mongoose
agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents
 
Aranea diademata
a spider common in European gardens
 
Ptychozoon homalocephalum
a gecko that has membranous expansions along the sides of its body and limbs and tail that enable it to glide short distances
 
Sebastodes ruberrimus
a large fish of the Pacific coast of North America
 
Palometa simillima
smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies
 
Diomedea nigripes
a variety of albatross with black feet
 
Nyctanassa violacea
North American night heron
 
Ophiodon elongatus
food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings
 
cephalochordate
fish-like animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column
 
Myxinikela siroka
fossil hagfish of the Pennsylvanian period (c. 300 million years ago) that resembled modern hagfishes
 
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