Animals that start with C
373 animals, sorted from the ones everyone says first to the ones almost nobody thinks of. 82 of them are in the Rare tier or rarer.
- 57 Plankton
- 110 Too Clever
- 124 Schooler
- 48 Rare
- 29 Deep Cut
- 5 One in a Krillion
Rare but real
Names that are easy to defend and hard to guess. Good when you need an answer no one else will have.
- Canyon treefrog
- A small chiefly ground dweller that stays within easy jumping distance of water.
- Clay-colored robin
- Robin of Mexico and Central America.
- Climbing perch
- A small perch of India whose gills are modified to allow it to breathe air.
- Cotton mouse
- Large dark mouse of southeastern United States.
- Crapaud
- Large toothed frog of South America and Central America resembling the bullfrog.
- Cyclostome
- Primitive aquatic vertebrate.
All 373 animals that start with C
Sorted by search interest, most familiar first. The last column is average monthly US Google searches.
Showing all 373. Tap a name to copy it.
| Name | What it is | Group | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| also True cat | Feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats. | Mammals | Plankton | 3.4M |
| also Capibara | Pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet. | Mammals | Plankton | 1.2M |
| Leaping insect. | Insects | Plankton | 1.2M | |
| breed | A domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs. | Birds | Plankton | 1M |
| also Cardinal grosbeak, Cardinalis cardinalis, Redbird | Crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male. | Birds | Plankton | 823K |
| breed | An old breed of tiny short-haired dog with protruding eyes from Mexico held to antedate Aztec civilization. | Mammals | Plankton | 673K |
| also Blue darter | Bluish-grey North American hawk having a darting flight. | Birds | Plankton | 673K |
| also Prairie wolf, Brush wolf | Small wolf native to western North America. | Mammals | Plankton | 550K |
| also Charr | Any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus. | Fish | Plankton | 450K |
| also Cattle | Domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age. | Mammals | Plankton | 450K |
| also Honker, Canadian goose | Common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call. | Birds | Plankton | 368K |
| also Chetah | Long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws. | Mammals | Plankton | 368K |
| Small rodent with soft pearly grey fur. | Mammals | Plankton | 368K | |
| also Chow chowbreed | Breed of medium-sized dogs with a thick coat and fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues. | Mammals | Plankton | 368K |
| also English cocker spaniel, Cockerbreed | A small breed with wavy silky hair. | Mammals | Plankton | 368K |
| also Common racoon, Coon, Ringtail | North American raccoon. | Mammals | Plankton | 368K |
| Any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth. | Fish | Plankton | 301K | |
| also Cicala | Stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings. | Insects | Plankton | 301K |
| Any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects. | Insects | Plankton | 301K | |
| also Welsh corgibreed | Either of two Welsh breeds of long-bodied short-legged dogs with erect ears and a fox-like head. | Mammals | Plankton | 301K |
| Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers. | Crustaceans | Plankton | 301K | |
| also Crayfish, Crawdad, Crawdaddy | Small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster. | Crustaceans | Plankton | 301K |
| also Tortoiseshell-catbreed | A cat having black and cream-colored and yellowish markings. | Mammals | Plankton | 246K |
| Chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors. | Other invertebrates | Plankton | 246K | |
| also Chamaeleon | Lizard of Africa and Madagascar able to change skin color and having a projectile tongue. | Reptiles | Plankton | 246K |
| also Chigoe, Chigoe flea | Small tropical flea. | Insects | Plankton | 246K |
| Large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates. | Reptiles | Plankton | 246K | |
| Cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions. | Mammals | Plankton | 201K | |
| also Reindeer, Greenland caribou | Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes. | Mammals | Plankton | 201K |
| Large black flightless bird of Australia and New Guinea having a horny head crest. | Birds | Plankton | 201K | |
| also Chimp | Intelligent somewhat arboreal ape of equatorial African forests. | Mammals | Plankton | 201K |
| A burrowing ground squirrel of western America and Asia. | Mammals | Plankton | 201K | |
| also Iguana | Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back. | Reptiles | Plankton | 201K |
| also Water moccasin, Cottonmouth | Venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States. | Reptiles | Plankton | 201K |
| also Puma, Catamount, Mountain lion | Large American feline resembling a lion. | Mammals | Plankton | 201K |
| Black birds having a raucous call. | Birds | Plankton | 201K | |
| Large solitary bee that lays eggs in tunnels bored into wood or plant stems. | Insects | Plankton | 165K | |
| also Carpet bug | Small beetle whose larvae are household pests feeding on woolen fabrics. | Insects | Plankton | 165K |
| Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud. | Molluscs | Plankton | 165K | |
| also Cockateel, Cockatoo parrot | Small grey Australian parrot with a yellow crested head. | Birds | Plankton | 165K |
| Venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia. | Reptiles | Plankton | 165K | |
| Marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton. | Other invertebrates | Plankton | 165K | |
| also Red rat snake | Large harmless snake of southeastern United States. | Reptiles | Plankton | 165K |
| Ant that nests in decaying wood in which it bores tunnels for depositing eggs. | Insects | Plankton | 135K | |
| also Grey catbird, Gray catbird | North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing. | Birds | Plankton | 135K |
| Venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood. | Reptiles | Plankton | 135K | |
| White or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region. | Birds | Plankton | 135K | |
| also Codfish | Major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters. | Fish | Plankton | 135K |
| Large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water. | Reptiles | Plankton | 135K | |
| Large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world. | Birds | Plankton | 135K | |
| also Cuttle | Ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell. | Molluscs | Plankton | 135K |
| also Desert lynx | Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia. | Mammals | Plankton | 110K |
| also Coati-mondi, Coati-mundi, Coon cat | Omnivorous mammal of Central America and South America. | Mammals | Plankton | 110K |
| also Springtail | Any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern. | Insects | Plankton | 110K |
| Any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip. | Molluscs | Plankton | 110K | |
| The largest flying birds in the western hemisphere. | Birds | Plankton | 110K | |
| Slate-black slow-flying birds somewhat resembling ducks. | Birds | Plankton | 110K | |
| also Cairnbreed | Small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland. | Mammals | Too Clever | 91K |
| also Canary bird | Any of several small Old World finches. | Birds | Too Clever | 91K |
| Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae. | Fish | Too Clever | 91K | |
| Any of various small grey-and-black songbirds of North America. | Birds | Too Clever | 91K | |
| Large black or rust-colored wasp that preys on cicadas. | Insects | Too Clever | 91K | |
| Fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa. | Fish | Too Clever | 91K | |
| also Old World coral snake | Any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 91K |
| Large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish. | Birds | Too Clever | 91K | |
| also Mongrel, Muttbreed | An inferior dog or one of mixed breed. | Mammals | Too Clever | 91K |
| also Cayman | A semiaquatic reptile of Central and South America that resembles an alligator but has a more heavily armored belly. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 74K |
| also African hunting dog, Hyena dog, Lycaon pictus | A powerful doglike mammal of southern and eastern Africa that hunts in large packs. | Mammals | Too Clever | 74K |
| breed | American breed having a short thick oily coat ranging from brown to light tan. | Mammals | Too Clever | 74K |
| also Chinook salmon, King salmon, Quinnat salmon | Large Pacific salmon valued as food. | Fish | Too Clever | 74K |
| Pupa of a moth or butterfly enclosed in a cocoon. | Insects | Too Clever | 74K | |
| breed | Heavy feathered-legged breed of draft horse originally from Scotland. | Mammals | Too Clever | 74K |
| also Daddy longlegs | Long-legged slender flies that resemble large mosquitoes but do not bite. | Insects | Too Clever | 74K |
| Any mainly aquatic arthropod usually having a segmented body and chitinous exoskeleton. | Crustaceans | Too Clever | 74K | |
| Any of numerous European and North American birds having pointed wings and a long tail. | Birds | Too Clever | 74K | |
| North American condor. | Birds | Too Clever | 61K | |
| also Conger eel | Large dark-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters. | Fish | Too Clever | 61K |
| breed | Any dog trained to hunt raccoons. | Mammals | Too Clever | 61K |
| breed | Any of several breeds of hound developed for hunting raccoons. | Mammals | Too Clever | 61K |
| Trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes. | Fish | Too Clever | 61K | |
| also Nutria | Aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver. | Mammals | Too Clever | 61K |
| Small sunfishes of central United States rivers. | Fish | Too Clever | 61K | |
| also Canebrake rattlesnake | Southern variety. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 50K |
| Any of various long-legged carrion-eating hawks of South America and Central America. | Birds | Too Clever | 50K | |
| Large United States wren with a musical call. | Birds | Too Clever | 50K | |
| also Cedarbird | Widely distributed over temperate North America. | Birds | Too Clever | 50K |
| also Cephalopod mollusk | Marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles. | Molluscs | Too Clever | 50K |
| breed | A silky-coated sheepdog with a long ruff and long narrow head developed in Scotland. | Mammals | Too Clever | 50K |
| also Body louse | A parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings. | Insects | Too Clever | 50K |
| also Pubic louse | A louse that infests the pubic region of the human body. | Insects | Too Clever | 50K |
| also Cecropia | North American silkworm moth. | Insects | Too Clever | 41K |
| also Channel cat | Freshwater food fish common throughout central United States. | Fish | Too Clever | 41K |
| also Coat-of-mail shell, Sea cradle, Polyplacophore | Primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates. | Molluscs | Too Clever | 41K |
| also Cichlid fish | Freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes. | Fish | Too Clever | 41K |
| also Civet cat | Cat-like mammal typically secreting musk used in perfumes. | Mammals | Too Clever | 41K |
| also Clumberbreed | A thickset spaniel with longish silky hair. | Mammals | Too Clever | 41K |
| also Coho, Cohoe, Blue jack | Small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes. | Fish | Too Clever | 41K |
| Of northern North America. | Mammals | Too Clever | 33K | |
| Large often savage buffalo of southern Africa having upward-curving horns. | Mammals | Too Clever | 33K | |
| also Ringtail | Monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl. | Mammals | Too Clever | 33K |
| Flea that breeds chiefly on cats and dogs and rats. | Insects | Too Clever | 33K | |
| also Ceratosaur | Primitive medium-sized theropod. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 33K |
| also Mouse deer | Very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa. | Mammals | Too Clever | 33K |
| also Hen hawk | Nontechnical term for any hawks said to prey on poultry. | Birds | Too Clever | 33K |
| Any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal column. | Other animals | Too Clever | 33K | |
| also Snapping beetle | Able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound. | Insects | Too Clever | 33K |
| also Coelenterate | Radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures. | Other invertebrates | Too Clever | 33K |
| also Sergeant fish | Large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras. | Fish | Too Clever | 33K |
| also Copepod crustacean | Minute marine or freshwater crustaceans usually having six pairs of limbs on the thorax. | Crustaceans | Too Clever | 33K |
| North American blackbird that follows cattle and lays eggs in other birds' nests. | Birds | Too Clever | 33K | |
| Primitive echinoderms having five or more feathery arms radiating from a central disk. | Other invertebrates | Too Clever | 33K | |
| also Comb jelly | Biradially symmetrical hermaphroditic solitary marine animals resembling jellyfishes having for locomotion eight rows of cilia arranged like teeth in a comb. | Other invertebrates | Too Clever | 33K |
| also Cazique | Black-and-red or black-and-yellow orioles of the American tropics. | Birds | Too Clever | 27K |
| breed | Slightly bowlegged variety of corgi having rounded ears and a long tail. | Mammals | Too Clever | 27K |
| breed | A homing pigeon used to carry messages. | Birds | Too Clever | 27K |
| Hoofed mammal of mountains of Eurasia having upright horns with backward-hooked tips. | Mammals | Too Clever | 27K | |
| European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body. | Fish | Too Clever | 27K | |
| A herbivorous lizard that lives among rocks in the arid parts of southwestern United States and Mexico. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 27K | |
| Any of several small yellowish or buff-colored moths whose larvae eat organic matter e.g. woolens. | Insects | Too Clever | 27K | |
| also Cochineal | Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti. | Insects | Too Clever | 27K |
| Common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs. | Molluscs | Too Clever | 27K | |
| Dark fawn-colored eland of southern and eastern Africa. | Mammals | Too Clever | 27K | |
| Any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona. | Amphibians | Too Clever | 22K | |
| Plump chunky bird of coastal California and Oregon. | Birds | Too Clever | 22K | |
| Water buffalo of the Philippines. | Mammals | Too Clever | 22K | |
| also Ground beetle | Predacious shining black or metallic terrestrial beetle that destroys many injurious insects. | Insects | Too Clever | 22K |
| also Lynx | Short-tailed wildcats with usually tufted ears. | Mammals | Too Clever | 22K |
| also European wildcat | Bushy-tailed wildcat of Europe that resembles the domestic cat and is regarded as the ancestor of the domestic cat. | Mammals | Too Clever | 22K |
| also Cetacean mammal | Large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales. | Mammals | Too Clever | 22K |
| also Barn swallow | Common swallow of North America and Europe that nests in barns etc. | Birds | Too Clever | 22K |
| also Chimney swallow | American swift that nests in e.g. unused chimneys. | Birds | Too Clever | 22K |
| Small black-and-white insect that feeds on cereal grasses. | Insects | Too Clever | 22K | |
| Very small bipedal carnivorous dinosaur of the late Jurassic in Bavaria. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 22K | |
| Small bottom-dwelling sharks with cat-like eyes. | Fish | Too Clever | 18K | |
| Tropical bird of northern South America the male having brilliant red or orange plumage and an erectile disklike crest. | Birds | Too Clever | 18K | |
| Black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins. | Fish | Too Clever | 18K | |
| also River cooter | Large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 18K |
| also Cow-nosed ray | Large ray found along eastern coast of North America. | Fish | Too Clever | 18K |
| also Jack crevalle | Fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. | Fish | Too Clever | 18K |
| Large harsh-voiced American wren of arid regions of the United States southwest and Mexico. | Birds | Too Clever | 15K | |
| also Caddice fly, Caddice-fly | Small moth-like insect having two pairs of hairy membranous wings and aquatic larvae. | Insects | Too Clever | 15K |
| Crocodile-like lizard of South America having powerful jaws for crushing snails and mussels. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 15K | |
| Often trained as a show animal. | Mammals | Too Clever | 15K | |
| also Mirid bug, Mirid | A variety of leaf bug. | Insects | Too Clever | 15K |
| Small bright red and blue aquarium fish from streams in Brazil and Colombia. | Fish | Too Clever | 15K | |
| also Piranha, Pirana | Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals. | Fish | Too Clever | 15K |
| Extinct parakeet whose range extended far into the United States. | Birds | Too Clever | 15K | |
| breed | Large white or cream-colored breed from France. | Mammals | Too Clever | 15K |
| Large North American snake. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 15K | |
| Small alligator of the Yangtze valley of China having unwebbed digits. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 15K | |
| Small North American finch common in urban areas. | Birds | Too Clever | 15K | |
| also Flying lemur, Flying cat | Arboreal nocturnal mammal of southeast Asia and the Philippines resembling a lemur and having a fold of skin on each side from neck to tail that is used for long gliding leaps. | Mammals | Too Clever | 15K |
| Gregarious bird having plumage with dark metallic gloss. | Birds | Too Clever | 15K | |
| also Bassarisk, Cacomistle, Cacomixle | Raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings. | Mammals | Too Clever | 15K |
| also Canvasback duck | North American wild duck valued for sport and food. | Birds | Too Clever | 12K |
| Southern United States chickadee similar to the blackcap but smaller. | Birds | Too Clever | 12K | |
| also Morelia spilotes variegatus | Australian python with a variegated pattern on its back. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 12K |
| Fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified. | Fish | Too Clever | 12K | |
| Small white egret widely distributed in warm regions often found around grazing animals. | Birds | Too Clever | 12K | |
| also Chain pike | Common in quiet waters of eastern United States. | Fish | Too Clever | 12K |
| also Coachwhip | A whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 12K |
| One of the oldest known dinosaurs. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 12K | |
| also Colorado beetle, Potato bug, Potato beetle | Black-and-yellow beetle that feeds in adult and larval stages on potato leaves. | Insects | Too Clever | 12K |
| breed | Sheep with long wool originating in the Cotswold Hills. | Mammals | Too Clever | 12K |
| also Wood rabbit, Cottontail rabbit | Common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside. | Mammals | Too Clever | 12K |
| Any of several fishes that make a croaking noise. | Fish | Too Clever | 12K | |
| Woolly-haired monkey-like arboreal marsupial of New Guinea and northern Australia. | Mammals | Too Clever | 12K | |
| White butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage. | Insects | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| also Grey jay, Gray jay, Camp robber | A jay of northern North America with black-capped head and no crest. | Birds | Schooler | 9.9K |
| Any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles. | Mammals | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| also Kashmir goatbreed | Himalayan goat having a silky undercoat highly prized as cashmere wool. | Mammals | Schooler | 9.9K |
| Slender arboreal guan resembling a wild turkey. | Birds | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| A deep-sea fish with a tapering body, smooth skin, and long threadlike tail. | Fish | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| Very large wild goose of northeast Asia. | Birds | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| Fish of larger rivers of China similar to the Mississippi paddlefish. | Fish | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| Large whippoorwill-like bird of the southern United States. | Birds | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| Reddish-brown color phase of the American black bear. | Mammals | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| Small (2 inches long) extinct eellike fish with a finned tail and a notochord and having cone-shaped teeth containing cellular bone. | Other animals | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| also Cowry | Any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells. | Molluscs | Schooler | 9.9K |
| Large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family. | Birds | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| also Capercailzie | Large black Old World grouse. | Birds | Schooler | 8.1K |
| Large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having huge claws. | Reptiles | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| also Indian ponybreed | A small native range horse. | Mammals | Schooler | 8.1K |
| also Horned dinosaur | Any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls. | Reptiles | Schooler | 8.1K |
| also Pintado | Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters. | Fish | Schooler | 8.1K |
| also Cherrystone clam | A half-grown quahog. | Molluscs | Schooler | 8.1K |
| A large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back. | Fish | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| North American swallow that lives in colonies and builds bottle-shaped mud nests on cliffs and walls. | Birds | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| also Cochin chinabreed | Asian breed of large fowl with dense plumage and feathered legs. | Birds | Schooler | 8.1K |
| also Colobus monkey | Arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs. | Mammals | Schooler | 8.1K |
| A variety of mammoth. | Mammals | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| A garter snake that is widespread in North America. | Reptiles | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| also Corythosaurus | Duck-billed dinosaur with nasal passages that expand into a crest like a hollow helmet. | Reptiles | Schooler | 8.1K |
| also Crab-eating seal | Silvery grey Antarctic seal subsisting on crustaceans. | Mammals | Schooler | 8.1K |
| Extant archosaurian reptile. | Reptiles | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| breed | An English breed having a tightly curled black or liver-colored coat. | Mammals | Schooler | 8.1K |
| Short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent. | Mammals | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| also Bat | Nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate. | Mammals | Schooler | 6.6K |
| also Leaf beetle | Brightly colored beetle that feeds on plant leaves. | Insects | Schooler | 6.6K |
| Nutcracker of the western United States. | Birds | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| Any of several robust long-tailed lizards with collars of two dark bands. | Reptiles | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| The most frequent variety of murre. | Birds | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| also Maryland yellowthroat | An American warbler. | Birds | Schooler | 6.6K |
| also Hyrax, Dassie, Das | Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes. | Mammals | Schooler | 6.6K |
| also Six-gilled shark | Large primitive shark widely distributed in warm seas. | Fish | Schooler | 6.6K |
| also Gall wasp, Cynipid gall wasp | Small solitary wasp that produces galls on oaks and other plants. | Insects | Schooler | 6.6K |
| also Capelan, Caplin | Very small northern fish. | Fish | Schooler | 5.4K |
| also Deer | Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers. | Mammals | Schooler | 5.4K |
| also Pearly nautilus, Nautilus | Cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions. | Molluscs | Schooler | 5.4K |
| breed | Hardy hornless sheep of the Cheviot Hills noted for its short thick wool. | Mammals | Schooler | 5.4K |
| also Shaft louse | A louse parasitic on poultry. | Insects | Schooler | 5.4K |
| A European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage. | Birds | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| also May bug, May beetle | Any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult. | Insects | Schooler | 5.4K |
| also Colubrid | Mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes. | Reptiles | Schooler | 5.4K |
| Large crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails. | Birds | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| also Tapestry moth | Larvae feed on carpets and other woolens. | Insects | Schooler | 4.4K |
| Shark of the western Pacific with flattened body and mottled skin. | Fish | Schooler | 4.4K | |
| also Seriema | Argentinian Cariama. | Birds | Schooler | 4.4K |
| Large red-and-black European moth. | Insects | Schooler | 4.4K | |
| also Horsefly, Cleg | Large swift fly the female of which sucks blood of various animals. | Insects | Schooler | 4.4K |
| also Javelina | Dark grey peccary with an indistinct white collar. | Mammals | Schooler | 4.4K |
| also Burchell's zebra, Equus Burchelli | Of the plains of central and eastern Africa. | Mammals | Schooler | 4.4K |
| also Crab-eating dog | Wild dog of northern South America. | Mammals | Schooler | 4.4K |
| also Croo monkey | Monkey of southeast Asia, Borneo and the Philippines. | Mammals | Schooler | 4.4K |
| Small carnivorous reptiles. | Reptiles | Schooler | 4.4K | |
| also Sperm whale, Black whale | Large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil. | Mammals | Schooler | 3.6K |
| Newt that is similar to Taricha granulosa in characteristics and habitat. | Amphibians | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| also Black vulture | American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard. | Birds | Schooler | 3.6K |
| also Chacma baboon | Greyish baboon of southern and eastern Africa. | Mammals | Schooler | 3.6K |
| A reptile of the order Chelonia. | Reptiles | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| also Adder | Small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia. | Reptiles | Schooler | 3.6K |
| Destructive long-haired burrowing rat of southern North America and Central America. | Mammals | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| Elongate compressed somewhat eel-shaped fishes. | Fish | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| also Window oyster, Windowpane oyster | Marine bivalve common in Philippine coastal waters characterized by a large thin flat translucent shell. | Molluscs | Schooler | 2.9K |
| also Tapeworm | Ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates. | Worms | Schooler | 2.9K |
| Small European finch with a cheerful song. | Birds | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| Black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| Omnivorous opossum of the eastern United States. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| also Afropavo | Both sexes are brightly colored. | Birds | Schooler | 2.9K |
| Bluish-grey whiting of California coast. | Fish | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| Any of several short-billed Old World rails. | Birds | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| European carp closely resembling wild goldfish. | Fish | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| Greyish highly productive European honeybee that has a quiet disposition. | Insects | Schooler | 2.4K | |
| also Lesser panda, Red panda, Panda | Reddish-brown Old World raccoon-like carnivore. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.4K |
| Fish-like animals having a notochord rather than a true spinal column. | Other animals | Schooler | 2.4K | |
| also Arrowworm | Any worm of the Chaetognatha. | Worms | Schooler | 2.4K |
| Any of several small North American frogs having a loud call. | Amphibians | Schooler | 2.4K | |
| also Codlin moth | A small grey moth whose larvae live in apples and English walnuts. | Insects | Schooler | 2.4K |
| A variety of vespid wasp. | Insects | Schooler | 2.4K | |
| also Banded water snake | In some classifications placed in the genus Nerodia. | Reptiles | Schooler | 2.4K |
| also Painted greenling, Convictfish | Greenling with whitish body marked with black bands. | Fish | Schooler | 2.4K |
| also Land rail | Common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields. | Birds | Schooler | 2.4K |
| A South American raccoon. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.4K | |
| Finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed. | Birds | Schooler | 2.4K | |
| also Frost fish, Hairtail | Long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth. | Fish | Schooler | 2.4K |
| North American wood warbler. | Birds | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| also Bedbug | Bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood. | Insects | Schooler | 1.9K |
| Small mackerel found nearly worldwide. | Fish | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| Any of various large nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by crushing it in its coils. | Reptiles | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| also European corn borer moth, Corn borer moth | Native to Europe. | Insects | Schooler | 1.9K |
| also Rock hopper | Small penguin of the Falkland Islands and New Zealand. | Birds | Schooler | 1.9K |
| Either of two frogs with a clicking call. | Amphibians | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| also Torsk | Large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters. | Fish | Schooler | 1.9K |
| also Sunfish | Small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies. | Fish | Schooler | 1.6K |
| Very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc. | Fish | Schooler | 1.6K | |
| also Theridiid | Spider having a comb-like row of bristles on each hind foot. | Spiders & arachnids | Schooler | 1.6K |
| also Amphiuma, Congo eel, Blind eel | Aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet. | Amphibians | Schooler | 1.6K |
| Slender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales. | Fish | Schooler | 1.6K | |
| Burrowing mouse of desert areas of southwestern United States. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| also American lady crab, Lady crab | Brightly spotted crab of sandy beaches of the Atlantic coast of the United States. | Crustaceans | Schooler | 1.3K |
| Small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters. | Fish | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| The larvae live in tubes of its food material fastened with silk that it spins. | Insects | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| A kingbird seen in the southwestern United States. | Birds | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| also Red squirrel | Common reddish-brown squirrel of Europe and parts of Asia. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.3K |
| also Old World monkey | Of Africa or Arabia or Asia. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.3K |
| Largest crested screamer. | Birds | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| also Clerid | Predacious on other insects. | Insects | Schooler | 1.3K |
| Anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing. | Insects | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| Widespread in United States except northern regions. | Reptiles | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| The common North American shiner. | Fish | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| A rockfish of the Pacific coastal waters of North America. | Fish | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| Distinguished from the horned screamer by a feathery crest on the back of the head. | Birds | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| also Wolverine, Skunk bear | Stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal. | Mammals | Schooler | 1K |
| breed | Horse trained for battle. | Mammals | Schooler | 1K |
| also Pallid bat | Drab yellowish big-eared bat that lives in caves. | Mammals | Schooler | 1K |
| also Chalcid fly, Chalcid | Any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects. | Insects | Schooler | 1K |
| Passerine bird of New World tropics. | Birds | Schooler | 1K | |
| Of warm Atlantic waters. | Fish | Schooler | 1K | |
| Deep-sea fish of tropical Atlantic. | Fish | Schooler | 1K | |
| African courser that feeds on insect parasites on crocodiles. | Birds | Schooler | 1K | |
| also Bell magpie | Bluish black fruit-eating bird with a bell-like call. | Birds | Schooler | 1K |
| A small chiefly ground dweller that stays within easy jumping distance of water. | Amphibians | Rare | 880 | |
| also Drayhorsebreed | Draft horse kept for pulling carts. | Mammals | Rare | 880 |
| Robin of Mexico and Central America. | Birds | Rare | 880 | |
| A small perch of India whose gills are modified to allow it to breathe air. | Fish | Rare | 880 | |
| Common American shrew. | Mammals | Rare | 880 | |
| Large dark mouse of southeastern United States. | Mammals | Rare | 880 | |
| also South American bullfrog | Large toothed frog of South America and Central America resembling the bullfrog. | Amphibians | Rare | 880 |
| Primitive aquatic vertebrate. | Other animals | Rare | 880 | |
| Mountain frog found near water. | Amphibians | Rare | 720 | |
| Similar to little chief hare and may be same species. | Mammals | Rare | 720 | |
| Old World ground-living cuckoo having a long dagger-like hind claw. | Birds | Rare | 720 | |
| Sea catfish of the Caribbean area. | Fish | Rare | 720 | |
| South American caracara. | Birds | Rare | 590 | |
| breed | Selectively bred small Skye terrier with erect ears and a long silky coat. | Mammals | Rare | 590 |
| Small semiaquatic salamander. | Amphibians | Rare | 590 | |
| A variety of scoter. | Birds | Rare | 590 | |
| Animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium. | Other animals | Rare | 590 | |
| Common coucal of India and China. | Birds | Rare | 590 | |
| also Bergall | Common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States. | Fish | Rare | 590 |
| breed | A hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk. | Birds | Rare | 480 |
| A percoid fish of the family Carangidae. | Fish | Rare | 480 | |
| Small bat of southwest United States that lives in caves etc. | Mammals | Rare | 480 | |
| An anemone fish of the genus Amphiprion. | Fish | Rare | 480 | |
| Any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas. | Fish | Rare | 480 | |
| also Blenny | Small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores. | Fish | Rare | 480 |
| Old World sandpiper with a curved bill like a curlew. | Birds | Rare | 480 | |
| also Kaffir cat | Widely distributed wildcat of Africa and Asia Minor. | Mammals | Rare | 390 |
| Intestinal parasite of domestic fowl. | Worms | Rare | 390 | |
| Pure white crested spoonbill of southern Eurasia and northeastern Africa. | Birds | Rare | 390 | |
| Dark brown crested bird of southeastern Asia. | Birds | Rare | 390 | |
| Soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales. | Fish | Rare | 390 | |
| Black-faced chimpanzees of central Africa. | Mammals | Rare | 320 | |
| also Characin fish, Characid | Any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae. | Fish | Rare | 320 |
| breed | Strong draft horse for drawing coaches. | Mammals | Rare | 320 |
| also Coreid | A true bug. | Insects | Rare | 320 |
| breed | A light saddle horse trained for herding cattle. | Mammals | Rare | 320 |
| A bee that is parasitic in the nests of bumblebees. | Insects | Rare | 320 | |
| Small lobster of southern Africa. | Crustaceans | Rare | 260 | |
| Extinct lungfish. | Fish | Rare | 260 | |
| Marine limpet. | Molluscs | Rare | 260 | |
| Any beetle of the genus Calosoma. | Insects | Rare | 210 | |
| Any fish of the genus Chaetodon. | Fish | Rare | 170 | |
| Common house mosquito. | Insects | Rare | 170 | |
| Porcupine of northeastern North America with barbed spines concealed in the coarse fur. | Mammals | Rare | 110 | |
| Markings are darker and more marked than in western whiptail. | Reptiles | Rare | 110 | |
| also Cheewink | Common towhee of eastern North America. | Birds | Rare | 110 |
| Having longitudinal stripes overlaid with light spots. | Reptiles | Rare | 110 | |
| A true bug: bug that damages and stains the lint of developing cotton. | Insects | Rare | 110 | |
| Brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters. | Fish | Deep Cut | 90 | |
| Courser of desert and semidesert regions of the Old World. | Birds | Deep Cut | 90 | |
| breed | An emaciated horse likely soon to become carrion and so attractive to crows. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 90 |
| Large Asiatic moth introduced into the United States. | Insects | Deep Cut | 90 | |
| also Dziggetai | Mongolian wild ass. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 70 |
| also Citrophilous mealybug | Destructive especially to citrus. | Insects | Deep Cut | 70 |
| Any of several North American salamanders adapted for climbing with well-developed limbs and long somewhat squared-off toes. | Amphibians | Deep Cut | 70 | |
| Found in West Indies. | Fish | Deep Cut | 70 | |
| Large white South American bird intermediate in some respects between ducks and swans. | Birds | Deep Cut | 70 | |
| A cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae. | Fish | Deep Cut | 50 | |
| Wading bird of South America and Central America. | Birds | Deep Cut | 50 | |
| Any member of the family Cyprinodontidae. | Fish | Deep Cut | 50 | |
| A form of tree toad. | Amphibians | Deep Cut | 40 | |
| also Clinid fish | Mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds. | Fish | Deep Cut | 40 |
| Native to the Canary Islands and Azores. | Birds | Deep Cut | 30 | |
| Head or body louse. | Insects | Deep Cut | 30 | |
| Intestinal parasite of humans and pigs. | Worms | Deep Cut | 30 | |
| also Comstock's mealybug | Asiatic insect introduced accidentally into United States. | Insects | Deep Cut | 30 |
| also Tatouay | Naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 20 |
| Important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean. | Fish | Deep Cut | 20 | |
| Feeds primarily on cotton. | Insects | Deep Cut | 20 | |
| also Tree swift | Birds of southeast Asia and East Indies differing from true swifts in having upright crests and nesting in trees. | Birds | Deep Cut | 20 |
| Shad of Atlantic coast of North America. | Fish | Deep Cut | 10 | |
| A variety of booklouse. | Insects | Deep Cut | 10 | |
| Of northern Eurasia. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 10 | |
| Old World nutcracker. | Birds | Deep Cut | 10 | |
| A variety of water strider. | Insects | Deep Cut | 10 | |
| A small wallaby having a height of 30 inches. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 10 | |
| breed | English breed of compact domestic fowl. | Birds | Deep Cut | 10 |
| A recently discovered large wild pig of Paraguay. | Mammals | One in a Krillion | <10 | |
| Sometimes destructive to cultivated bulbs. | Insects | One in a Krillion | <10 | |
| Fawn-colored jay with black-and-white crest and blue-and-black wings. | Birds | One in a Krillion | <10 | |
| The best known variety of brant goose. | Birds | One in a Krillion | <10 | |
| South American opossum. | Mammals | One in a Krillion | <10 |
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Questions about animals that start with C
How many animals start with C?
RareList lists 373 animals that start with C, including 31 breeds. 57 are in the Plankton tier, the names everyone knows, and 82 are in the Rare tier or rarer.
What are common animals that start with C?
The most searched animals starting with C are Cat, Capybara, Cricket, Cardinal and Cooper's hawk.
What is a rare animal that starts with C?
Common American shad is one of the rarest. Shad of Atlantic coast of North America. It gets about 10 US searches a month. Other rare picks: Canyon treefrog, Clay-colored robin and Climbing perch.
How does RareList decide what counts as rare?
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