Nouns denoting animals
- subphylum Vertebrata
- fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals
- genus Ciconia
- type genus of the Ciconiidae: European storks
- class Ulvophyceae
- alternative name for the class Chlorophyceae in some classifications
- order Squamata
- diapsid reptiles: snakes and lizards
- Hampshire down
- British breed of hornless dark-faced domestic sheep
- float
- an air-filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy
- false vampire bat
- any New or Old World carnivorous bat erroneously thought to suck blood but in fact feeding on insects
- subclass Metatheria
- pouched animals
- banana quit
- any of several honeycreepers
- maggot
- the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter
- water strider
- long-legged bug that skims about on the surface of water
- family Tytonidae
- comprising only the barn owls
- ichneumon fly
- hymenopterous insect that resembles a wasp and whose larvae are parasitic on caterpillars and other insect larvae
- scavenger
- any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matter
- order Pelecaniformes
- pelicans; frigate birds; gannets; cormorants
- genus Astrophyton
- includes many of the basket stars
- order Cydippidea
- ctenophores having two long pinnate tentacles
- Lime disease spirochete
- cause of Lyme disease; transmitted primarily by ticks of genus Ixodes
- fish genus
- any of various genus of fish
- Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus
- stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck