Animals that start with D
129 animals, sorted from the ones everyone says first to the ones almost nobody thinks of. 34 of them are in the Rare tier or rarer.
- 15 Plankton
- 42 Too Clever
- 38 Schooler
- 21 Rare
- 10 Deep Cut
- 3 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.
- Dusky salamander
- Common North American salamander mottled with dull brown or greyish-black.
- Damaraland mole rat
- Colonial mole rat of western Africa.
- Driftfish
- Small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide.
- Drumfish
- Small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise.
- Dwarf buffalo
- Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns.
- Dickybird
- Small bird.
All 129 animals that start with D
Sorted by search interest, most familiar first. The last column is average monthly US Google searches.
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| Name | What it is | Group | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| also Domestic dog | A member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times. | Mammals | Plankton | 2.7M |
| Any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era. | Reptiles | Plankton | 1M | |
| also Diamondback rattlesnake | Large deadly rattlesnake with diamond-shaped markings. | Reptiles | Plankton | 823K |
| Any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout. | Mammals | Plankton | 823K | |
| also Dachsie, Badger dogbreed | Small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears. | Mammals | Plankton | 673K |
| Small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs. | Birds | Plankton | 673K | |
| also Doberman pinscherbreed | Medium large breed of dog of German origin with a glossy black and tan coat. | Mammals | Plankton | 550K |
| also Cervid | Distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers. | Mammals | Plankton | 450K |
| also Darning needle, Devil's darning needle, Snake feeder | Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest. | Insects | Plankton | 301K |
| also Domestic ass | Domestic beast of burden descended from the African wild ass. | Mammals | Plankton | 201K |
| Any of numerous small pigeons. | Birds | Plankton | 201K | |
| also Coach dog, Carriage dogbreed | A large breed having a smooth white coat with black or brown spots. | Mammals | Plankton | 165K |
| also Warragal | Wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia. | Mammals | Plankton | 165K |
| also Jackdaw | Common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery. | Birds | Plankton | 135K |
| Any of several small antelopes of eastern Africa of the genus Madoqua. | Mammals | Plankton | 135K | |
| A northeastern tick now recognized as same species as Ixodes scapularis. | Spiders & arachnids | Too Clever | 91K | |
| Small edible crab of Pacific coast of North America. | Crustaceans | Too Clever | 91K | |
| Extinct heavy flightless bird of Mauritius related to pigeons. | Birds | Too Clever | 74K | |
| Any of several small sharks. | Fish | Too Clever | 74K | |
| Sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia. | Mammals | Too Clever | 74K | |
| also Slate-colored junco | Common North American junco having grey plumage and eyes with dark brown irises. | Birds | Too Clever | 61K |
| Brownish New World mouse. | Mammals | Too Clever | 61K | |
| A huge quadrupedal herbivore with long neck and tail. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 61K | |
| also Hyrax, Cony, Dassie | Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes. | Mammals | Too Clever | 50K |
| Swift agile wolf-sized bipedal dinosaur having a large curved claw on each hind foot. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 50K | |
| also Dobson, Dobson fly | Large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male. | Insects | Too Clever | 50K |
| Small North American woodpecker with black and white plumage and a small bill. | Birds | Too Clever | 50K | |
| Any of numerous beetles that roll balls of dung on which they feed and in which they lay eggs. | Insects | Too Clever | 50K | |
| Fierce wild dog of the forests of central and southeast Asia that hunts in packs. | Mammals | Too Clever | 41K | |
| Carnivorous dinosaur of the Permian in North America having a crest or dorsal sail. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 41K | |
| breed | Horse of a dull brownish grey color. | Mammals | Too Clever | 41K |
| also Scottish deerhoundbreed | Very large and tall rough-coated dog bred for hunting deer. | Mammals | Too Clever | 33K |
| also Water ouzel | Small stocky diving bird without webbed feet. | Birds | Too Clever | 33K |
| also Mahimahi | Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii). | Fish | Too Clever | 33K |
| also Dominiquebreed | American breed of chicken having barred grey plumage raised for meat and brown eggs. | Birds | Too Clever | 33K |
| Slender non-stinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when at rest. | Insects | Too Clever | 27K | |
| European hawkmoth with markings on the back resembling a human skull. | Insects | Too Clever | 27K | |
| also House cat | Any domesticated member of the genus Felis. | Mammals | Too Clever | 27K |
| also Draught horse, Dray horsebreed | Horse adapted for drawing heavy loads. | Mammals | Too Clever | 27K |
| also Arabian camel | One-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia. | Mammals | Too Clever | 27K |
| Lightly built medium-sized theropod with long limbs and neck. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 22K | |
| also Pooch, Doggy, Barkerbreed | Informal terms for dogs. | Mammals | Too Clever | 22K |
| also Water flea | Minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell. | Crustaceans | Too Clever | 18K |
| also Darkling groung beetle, Tenebrionid | Sluggish hard-bodied black terrestrial weevil whose larvae feed on e.g. decaying plant material or grain. | Insects | Too Clever | 18K |
| Burrowing tortoise of the arid western United States and northern Mexico. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 18K | |
| Of marshes along Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of United States. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 18K | |
| also Komodo dragon, Komodo lizard, Giant lizard | The largest lizard in the world (10 feet). | Reptiles | Too Clever | 18K |
| also Dairy cattle, Milch cow, Milk cowbreed | Cattle that are reared for their milk. | Mammals | Too Clever | 15K |
| also Digitigrade mammal | An animal that walks so that only the toes touch the ground as e.g. dogs and cats and horses. | Mammals | Too Clever | 15K |
| Flea that attacks dogs and cats. | Insects | Too Clever | 15K | |
| Small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather. | Mammals | Too Clever | 15K | |
| also Platypus, Duckbill, Duck-billed platypus | Small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet. | Mammals | Too Clever | 15K |
| Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body. | Fish | Too Clever | 12K | |
| also Dall's sheep, White sheep | Large white wild sheep of northwestern Canada and Alaska. | Mammals | Too Clever | 12K |
| Cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones. | Molluscs | Too Clever | 12K | |
| Crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax. | Crustaceans | Too Clever | 12K | |
| Relatively slender blue-grey shark. | Fish | Too Clever | 12K | |
| also Demoiselle | Small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs. | Fish | Schooler | 9.9K |
| Venomous Australian snake resembling an adder. | Reptiles | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| also Deathwatch beetle | Bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death. | Insects | Schooler | 9.9K |
| Small manta (to 4 feet) that travels in schools. | Fish | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| Small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance. | Insects | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| Any of various termites that live in and feed on dry wood that is not connected with the soil. | Insects | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| also Hadrosaur, Hadrosaurus | Any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet. | Reptiles | Schooler | 9.9K |
| also Dandie Dinmontbreed | A breed of small terrier with long wiry coat and drooping ears. | Mammals | Schooler | 8.1K |
| also Two-winged insects | Insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing. | Insects | Schooler | 8.1K |
| also Kangaroo rat | Any of various leaping rodents of desert regions of North America and Mexico. | Mammals | Schooler | 6.6K |
| Any of various ducks of especially bays and estuaries that dive for their food. | Birds | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| also Paddlefish | Primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout. | Fish | Schooler | 6.6K |
| also Red-backed sandpiper | Small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or Arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions. | Birds | Schooler | 6.6K |
| also Harvestman | Spiderlike arachnid with a small rounded body and very long thin legs. | Spiders & arachnids | Schooler | 5.4K |
| Small long-tailed lizard of arid areas of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. | Reptiles | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| also Chickeree | Far western United States counterpart of the red squirrel. | Mammals | Schooler | 5.4K |
| also Army ant, Legionary ant | Tropical nomadic ant that preys mainly on other insects. | Insects | Schooler | 5.4K |
| also Octopus | Bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles. | Molluscs | Schooler | 4.4K |
| Solitary wasp that digs nests in the soil and stocks them with paralyzed insects for the larvae. | Insects | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| Surgeon fish of the West Indies. | Fish | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| breed | An English breed of large domestic fowl having five toes (the hind toe doubled). | Birds | Schooler | 3.6K |
| A kind of maniraptor. | Reptiles | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| also Dabbler | Any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling. | Birds | Schooler | 2.9K |
| also Mayfly, Shadfly | Slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days. | Insects | Schooler | 2.9K |
| A kind of therapsid. | Reptiles | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| also Harvest fly | Its distinctive song is heard during July and August. | Insects | Schooler | 2.9K |
| also Little auk | Small short-billed auk abundant in Arctic regions. | Birds | Schooler | 2.9K |
| Small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers. | Fish | Schooler | 2.4K | |
| also Snakebird, Anhinga | Fish-eating bird of warm inland waters having a long flexible neck and slender sharp-pointed bill. | Birds | Schooler | 1.9K |
| Reptile having a pair of openings in the skull behind each eye. | Reptiles | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| Domesticated pigeon raised for sport or food. | Birds | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| also Caracal | Of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.6K |
| also Hedge sparrow | Small brownish European songbird. | Birds | Schooler | 1.6K |
| also Eohippusbreed | Earliest horse. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.3K |
| Shorebird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe. | Birds | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| also Danaid butterfly | Large tropical butterfly with degenerate forelegs and an unpleasant taste. | Insects | Schooler | 1K |
| Any of various breeds of goat raised for milk or meat or wool. | Mammals | Schooler | 1K | |
| A wood rat with dusky feet. | Mammals | Schooler | 1K | |
| Common North American salamander mottled with dull brown or greyish-black. | Amphibians | Rare | 880 | |
| Colonial mole rat of western Africa. | Mammals | Rare | 720 | |
| breed | Any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin. | Mammals | Rare | 720 |
| Small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide. | Fish | Rare | 720 | |
| Small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise. | Fish | Rare | 720 | |
| also Anoa | Small buffalo of the Celebes having small straight horns. | Mammals | Rare | 590 |
| also Dickeybird, Dicky-bird | Small bird. | Birds | Rare | 480 |
| also Dotrel | Rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia. | Birds | Rare | 480 |
| also Carthorsebreed | Draft horse kept for pulling carts. | Mammals | Rare | 480 |
| also Little grebe | Small European grebe. | Birds | Rare | 390 |
| Small food fish of Atlantic coast. | Fish | Rare | 390 | |
| also Dasyurid marsupial | Small carnivorous nocturnal marsupials of Australia and Tasmania. | Mammals | Rare | 320 |
| Deep-sea ribbonfish. | Fish | Rare | 320 | |
| An insect that strips the leaves from plants. | Insects | Rare | 320 | |
| Used in former classifications to include all living reptiles except turtles. | Reptiles | Rare | 260 | |
| Old World dung beetle that flies with a droning sound. | Insects | Rare | 210 | |
| Any of several small diving birds of southern hemisphere seas. | Birds | Rare | 170 | |
| A vector of the fungus causing Dutch elm disease. | Insects | Rare | 170 | |
| Any of several more or less arboreal marsupials somewhat resembling martens. | Mammals | Rare | 140 | |
| also Dicamptodontid | Salamanders found near cold streams throughout the year. | Amphibians | Rare | 140 |
| Nocturnal monkey of Central America and South America with large eyes and thick fur. | Mammals | Rare | 140 | |
| also Uintathere | A variety of dinocerate. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 90 |
| also Domesticated silkworm moth | Stocky creamy-white Asiatic moth found almost entirely under human care. | Insects | Deep Cut | 90 |
| A variety of stick insect. | Insects | Deep Cut | 70 | |
| also Dibranchiate mollusk, Dibranch | Cephalopods having two gills. | Molluscs | Deep Cut | 50 |
| Free-swimming oceanic tunicate with a barrel-shaped transparent body. | Other animals | Deep Cut | 50 | |
| also Chigetai | Mongolian wild ass. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 50 |
| A squirrelfish found from South Carolina to Bermuda and Gulf of Mexico. | Fish | Deep Cut | 20 | |
| Large Old World freshwater bottom-feeding fish introduced into Europe from Asia. | Fish | Deep Cut | 20 | |
| Used in the Andes as a beast of burden and source of wool. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 20 | |
| A fish 8 inches long. | Fish | Deep Cut | 10 | |
| An extinct ungulate. | Mammals | One in a Krillion | <10 | |
| Small (4 inches) fish found off the Florida Gulf Coast. | Fish | One in a Krillion | <10 | |
| Very small (to 8 feet) sperm whale of central coasts of Atlantic and Pacific. | Mammals | One in a Krillion | <10 |
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Questions about animals that start with D
How many animals start with D?
RareList lists 129 animals that start with D, including 14 breeds. 15 are in the Plankton tier, the names everyone knows, and 34 are in the Rare tier or rarer.
What are common animals that start with D?
The most searched animals starting with D are Dog, Dinosaur, Diamondback, Dolphin and Duck.
What is a rare animal that starts with D?
Deepwater pipefish is one of the rarest. A fish 8 inches long. It gets about 10 US searches a month. Other rare picks: Dusky salamander, Damaraland mole rat and Driftfish.
How does RareList decide what counts as rare?
Each name is ranked by its average monthly Google searches in the United States. Fewer searches means fewer people are likely to think of it, which is what matters in games that reward unique answers. See how we rank for the details.