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Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million in total. Animals range in size from 8.5 millionths of a metre to 33.6 metres (110 ft) long and have complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs .
List of animal names. Mother sea otter with sleeping pup, Morro Bay, California. In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on ...
In this list of birds by common name, a total of 10,976 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. Species marked with a "†" are extinct.
A. List of amphibian genera. Animals in War & Peace Medal of Bravery. List of animals with horns and tusks. Arthropod bites and stings. List of animals featuring external asymmetry.
List of cercopithecoids. List of cervids. List of cetaceans. List of cingulates. List of Conus species. List of Corydoras species. List of cranes. List of crocidurines. List of crotaline species and subspecies.
Least chipmunk. Northern pocket gopher. Ord's kangaroo rat. Singing vole. White-footed mouse. Hispid cotton rat. Rodents make up the largest order of mammals, with over 40% of mammalian species. They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be kept short by gnawing.
The order Chiroptera comprises bats and is the second largest order of mammals, containing about 1,240 species of bats, which is around 20% of all mammal species. Suborder Yangochiroptera. Family Emballonuridae – sac-winged bats Genus Balantiopteryx; Genus Centronycteris – shaggy bats; Genus Coleura; Genus Cormura – chestnut sac-winged bat
List of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha animals extinct in the Holocene. List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene. List of European species extinct in the Holocene. List of extinct animals of the British Isles. List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene. List of Antillian and Bermudan animals extinct in the Holocene.