Animals

Mercenaria mercenaria

an edible American clam; the heavy shells were used as money by some American Indians

 

Jaculus jaculus

a variety of jerboa

 

soldierfish

the larger squirrelfishes

 

Kobus leche

tawny-colored African antelope inhabiting wet grassy plains; a threatened species

 

eelworm

any of various small free-living plant-parasitic roundworms

 

civet cat

cat-like mammal typically secreting musk used in perfumes

 

Tunga penetrans

small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans

 

Eschrichtius robustus

medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific

 

Scutigerella immaculata

minute arthropod often infesting the underground parts of truck-garden and greenhouse crops

 

Pulex irritans

the most common flea attacking humans

 

pirana

small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals

 

black sheep

sheep with a black coat

 

Gorilla gorilla

largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa

 

Paranthias furcifer

deep-sea fish of tropical Atlantic

 

brittle star

an animal resembling a starfish with fragile whiplike arms radiating from a small central disc

 

Aplysia punctata

naked marine gastropod having a soft body with reduced internal shell and two pairs of ear-like tentacles

 

Sarda chiliensis

common bonito of Pacific coast of the Americas; its dark oily flesh cans well

 

Pagrus pagrus

food fish of the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Europe and America

 

Falco columbarius

small falcon of Europe and America having dark plumage with black-barred tail; used in falconry

 

woodcock

game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe