Nouns denoting animals
- family Tytonidae
- comprising only the barn owls
- Hydromantes brunus
- similar to Shasta salamander; lives in cliff crevices and taluses
- family Diodontidae
- spiny puffers
- Old World least weasel
- of Europe
- crab
- decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- genus Pyrocephalus
- a genus of Tyrannidae
- order Strigiformes
- owls
- genus Picoides
- a genus of Picidae
- Sorex araneus
- common American shrew
- Sorex cinereus
- commonest shrew of moist habitats in North America
- genus Chilomeniscus
- sand snakes
- Urosaurus ornatus
- a climbing lizard of western United States and northern Mexico
- genus Dendrolagus
- tree wallabies
- genus Polyangium
- type genus of the family Polyangiaceae: myxobacteria with rounded fruiting bodies enclosed in a membrane
- Ambystoma tigrinum
- widely distributed brown or black North American salamander with vertical yellowish blotches
- family Priacanthidae
- small carnivorous percoid fishes found worldwide in tropical seas
- 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
- genus Serrasalmus
- piranhas
- Salvelinus fontinalis
- North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe
- springer
- a cow about to give birth