Nouns denoting animals

genus Mobula
type genus of the Mobulidae
 
genus Escherichia
a genus of bacteria
 
Eumeces callicephalus
frequents oak and pine habitats in rocky mountainous areas of United States southwest and Mexico
 
oyster
marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters
 
Psettichthys melanostichus
a common flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America
 
auklet
any of several small auks of the northern Pacific coasts
 
myxobacter
bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste
 
family Rajidae
bottom-dwelling tropical rays: skates
 
family Tridacnidae
large marine hard-shell clams
 
Daubentonia madagascariensis
nocturnal lemur with long bony fingers and rodent-like incisor teeth closely related to the lemurs
 
subclass Ophiurida
brittle stars
 
family Physidae
freshwater snails
 
genus Nymphicus
a genus of Psittacidae
 
family Elopidae
tarpons and ladyfishes
 
Bartramian sandpiper
large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands
 
tropical prawn
edible tropical and warm-water prawn
 
Pithecanthropus erectus
former genus of primitive apelike men now Homo erectus
 
spider mite
web-spinning mite that attacks garden plants and fruit trees
 
Bufo microscaphus
a uniformly warty stocky toad of washes and streams of semiarid southwestern United States
 
family Parulidae
New World warblers
 
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