Animals that start with M
228 animals, sorted from the ones everyone says first to the ones almost nobody thinks of. 41 of them are in the Rare tier or rarer.
- 44 Plankton
- 75 Too Clever
- 68 Schooler
- 27 Rare
- 10 Deep Cut
- 4 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.
- Manx shearwater
- Small black-and-white shearwater common in the northeastern Atlantic.
- Masked shrew
- Commonest shrew of moist habitats in North America.
- Missel thrush
- Large European thrush that feeds on mistletoe berries.
- Money cowrie
- Cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of the southern Pacific and in parts of Africa.
- Mountain viscacha
- A rodent native to the mountains of Chile and Peru and now bred in captivity.
- Maigre
- Large European marine food fish.
All 228 animals that start with M
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians). | Mammals | Plankton | 3.4M | |
| breed | Small hardy range horse of the western plains descended from horses brought by the Spanish. | Mammals | Plankton | 368K |
| Sirenian mammal of tropical coastal waters of America. | Mammals | Plankton | 301K | |
| Large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes. | Fish | Plankton | 301K | |
| also Elk, European elk | Large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male. | Mammals | Plankton | 301K |
| Any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails. | Mammals | Plankton | 301K | |
| Bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin. | Fish | Plankton | 301K | |
| also Dolphinfish | Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii). | Fish | Plankton | 246K |
| also Maltese catbreed | A term applied indiscriminately in the United States to any short-haired bluish-grey cat. | Mammals | Plankton | 246K |
| also Mantis | Predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions. | Insects | Plankton | 246K |
| also Monarch butterfly, Milkweed butterfly | Large migratory American butterfly having deep orange wings with black and white markings. | Insects | Plankton | 246K |
| Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals. | Insects | Plankton | 246K | |
| also Sea turtle | Any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers. | Reptiles | Plankton | 201K |
| Stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere. | Mammals | Plankton | 201K | |
| also Mierkat | A mongoose-like viverrine of South Africa having a face like a lemur and only four toes. | Mammals | Plankton | 201K |
| Slender-bodied semiaquatic mammal having partially webbed feet. | Mammals | Plankton | 201K | |
| also Mocker | Long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds. | Birds | Plankton | 201K |
| Agile grizzled Old World viverrine. | Mammals | Plankton | 201K | |
| Typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae. | Insects | Plankton | 201K | |
| also Cougar, Puma, Catamount | Large American feline resembling a lion. | Mammals | Plankton | 201K |
| also Musquash | Beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur. | Mammals | Plankton | 201K |
| Any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene. | Mammals | Plankton | 165K | |
| Wild dove of the United States having a mournful call. | Birds | Plankton | 165K | |
| Long-tailed black-and-white crow that utters a raucous chattering call. | Birds | Plankton | 135K | |
| breed | Fawn-colored short-haired sheepdog. | Mammals | Plankton | 135K |
| also Manta, Devilfish | Extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes. | Fish | Plankton | 135K |
| also Squilla | A kind of mantis shrimp. | Crustaceans | Plankton | 135K |
| Tropical marine burrowing crustaceans with large grasping appendages. | Crustaceans | Plankton | 135K | |
| breed | An old breed of powerful deep-chested smooth-coated dog used chiefly as a watchdog and guard dog. | Mammals | Plankton | 135K |
| breed | A breed of small poodles. | Mammals | Plankton | 135K |
| Hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. | Mammals | Plankton | 135K | |
| Marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk that lives attached to rocks etc. | Molluscs | Plankton | 135K | |
| also Maltese terrierbreed | Breed of toy dogs having a long straight silky white coat. | Mammals | Plankton | 110K |
| also Red wolf | Reddish-grey wolf of southwestern North America. | Mammals | Plankton | 110K |
| Mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried. | Mammals | Plankton | 110K | |
| also Mastodont | Extinct elephant-like mammal that flourished worldwide from Miocene through Pleistocene times. | Mammals | Plankton | 110K |
| also Song thrush, Throstle | Common Old World thrush noted for its song. | Birds | Plankton | 110K |
| also Dayfly, Shadfly | Slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days. | Insects | Plankton | 110K |
| also Pigeon hawk | Small falcon of Europe and America having dark plumage with black-barred tail. | Birds | Plankton | 110K |
| breed | Any of an old breed of small nearly hairless dogs of Mexico. | Mammals | Plankton | 110K |
| breed | Small German version of a Doberman pinscher. | Mammals | Plankton | 110K |
| breed | A small schnauzer. | Mammals | Plankton | 110K |
| African rodent resembling a mole in habits and appearance. | Mammals | Plankton | 110K | |
| Wasp that constructs mud cells on a solid base in which females place eggs laid in paralyzed insect larvae. | Insects | Plankton | 110K | |
| Long-tailed brilliantly colored parrot of Central America and South America. | Birds | Too Clever | 91K | |
| Any of various fishes of the family Scombridae. | Fish | Too Clever | 91K | |
| also Mollusc | Invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell. | Molluscs | Too Clever | 91K |
| also Monitor lizard, Varan | Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 91K |
| also Angel shark | Sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do. | Fish | Too Clever | 91K |
| also Mako | Powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific. | Fish | Too Clever | 74K |
| also Malemute, Alaskan malamutebreed | Breed of sled dog developed in Alaska. | Mammals | Too Clever | 74K |
| Wild dabbling duck from which domestic ducks are descended. | Birds | Too Clever | 74K | |
| Any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods. | Spiders & arachnids | Too Clever | 74K | |
| Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand. | Birds | Too Clever | 74K | |
| also Rocky Mountain goat | Sure-footed mammal of mountainous northwestern North America. | Mammals | Too Clever | 74K |
| breed | A cat proficient at mousing. | Mammals | Too Clever | 74K |
| also Mudspringer | Found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia. | Fish | Too Clever | 74K |
| also Burro deer | Long-eared deer of western North America with two-pronged antlers. | Mammals | Too Clever | 74K |
| also Musk duck | Large crested wild duck of Central America and South America. | Birds | Too Clever | 74K |
| Baboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters. | Mammals | Too Clever | 61K | |
| also Manxbreed | A short-haired tailless breed of cat believed to originate on the Isle of Man. | Mammals | Too Clever | 61K |
| Small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails. | Mammals | Too Clever | 61K | |
| also House snake, Milk adder, Checkered adder | Nonvenomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped occipital spot. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 61K |
| also Myna, Mynah, Minah | Tropical Asian starlings. | Birds | Too Clever | 61K |
| Very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams. | Fish | Too Clever | 61K | |
| also Moray | Family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters. | Fish | Too Clever | 61K |
| also Musk sheep | Large shaggy-coated bovid mammal of Canada and Greenland. | Mammals | Too Clever | 61K |
| also Cur, Mongrelbreed | An inferior dog or one of mixed breed. | Mammals | Too Clever | 61K |
| Short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa. | Mammals | Too Clever | 50K | |
| Scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion. | Insects | Too Clever | 50K | |
| Minute two-winged mosquito-like fly lacking biting mouthparts. | Insects | Too Clever | 50K | |
| Digs in moist soil and feeds on plant roots. | Insects | Too Clever | 50K | |
| Hare-like rodent of the pampas of Argentina. | Mammals | Too Clever | 41K | |
| also Marten cat | Agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels. | Mammals | Too Clever | 41K |
| North American songbirds having a yellow breast. | Birds | Too Clever | 41K | |
| 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 | 41K |
| Large (60 to 80 pounds) sport fish of North America. | Fish | Too Clever | 41K | |
| also Musteline | Fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals. | Mammals | Too Clever | 41K |
| Arboreal snake of central and southern Africa whose bite is often fatal. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 33K | |
| Showy crested Asiatic duck. | Birds | Too Clever | 33K | |
| Small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters. | Fish | Too Clever | 33K | |
| also Dragonfly, Darning needle, Devil's darning needle | Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest. | Insects | Too Clever | 33K |
| also Chevrotain | Very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa. | Mammals | Too Clever | 33K |
| Aquatic North American salamander with red feathery external gills. | Amphibians | Too Clever | 33K | |
| also Silver perch | Small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch. | Fish | Too Clever | 27K |
| Black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail. | Birds | Too Clever | 27K | |
| also Portuguese man-of-war | Large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles. | Other invertebrates | Too Clever | 27K |
| Shore-dwelling seaweed-eating lizard of the Galapagos Islands. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 27K | |
| also American coot, Marsh hen, Water hen | A coot found in North America. | Birds | Too Clever | 27K |
| also American lobster, Northern lobster | Lobster of Atlantic coast of America. | Crustaceans | Too Clever | 22K |
| also Grey snapper, Gray snapper | Found in shallow waters off the coast of Florida. | Fish | Too Clever | 22K |
| A grunt with a red mouth that is found from Florida to Brazil. | Fish | Too Clever | 22K | |
| also Margay cat | Small spotted wildcat found from Texas to Brazil. | Mammals | Too Clever | 22K |
| also Megalosaurus | Gigantic carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous in Europe. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 22K |
| also Fish duck, Sawbill | Large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges. | Birds | Too Clever | 22K |
| also Lesser rorqual, Piked whale | Small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific. | Mammals | Too Clever | 22K |
| British informal for donkey. | Mammals | Too Clever | 22K | |
| also Ocean sunfish, Headfish | Among the largest bony fish. | Fish | Too Clever | 22K |
| Any of numerous solitary bees that build nests of hardened mud and sand. | Insects | Too Clever | 18K | |
| also Merino sheepbreed | White sheep originating in Spain and producing a heavy fleece of exceptional quality. | Mammals | Too Clever | 18K |
| Inhabits both coasts of tropical Atlantic. | Fish | Too Clever | 18K | |
| also Egg-laying mammal | The most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria. | Mammals | Too Clever | 18K |
| Gorilla of Kivu highlands. | Mammals | Too Clever | 18K | |
| also Barking deer | Small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark. | Mammals | Too Clever | 18K |
| also Stinkpot | Small freshwater turtle having a strong musky odor. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 18K |
| Soundless Eurasian swan. | Birds | Too Clever | 18K | |
| also Black-and-tan terrierbreed | A breed of short-haired rat terrier with a black-and-tan coat that was developed in Manchester, England. | Mammals | Too Clever | 15K |
| also Marabou, Marabout | Large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork. | Birds | Too Clever | 15K |
| also Markhoor | Large Himalayan goat with large spiraled horns. | Mammals | Too Clever | 15K |
| also Blackbird, Merl, Ouzel | Common black European thrush. | Birds | Too Clever | 15K |
| also Atlantic moonfish, Horsefish, Horsehead | Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies. | Fish | Too Clever | 15K |
| also Guano bat | The common freetail bat of southern United States having short velvety fur. | Mammals | Too Clever | 12K |
| also Dairy cattle, Dairy cow, Milch cowbreed | Cattle that are reared for their milk. | Mammals | Too Clever | 12K |
| Extremely dangerous. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 12K | |
| also Molly | Popular aquarium fish. | Fish | Too Clever | 12K |
| Large dark wingless cricket-like katydid of arid parts of western United States. | Insects | Too Clever | 12K | |
| A rodent that is a member of the family Muridae. | Mammals | Too Clever | 12K | |
| Small heavy-limbed upland deer of central Asia. | Mammals | Too Clever | 12K | |
| Small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet. | Mammals | Too Clever | est. | |
| also Pallas's cat | Small wildcat of the mountains of Siberia and Tibet and Mongolia. | Mammals | Schooler | 9.9K |
| Shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer. | Fish | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| also Mourning cloak, Camberwell beauty | Of temperate regions. | Insects | Schooler | 9.9K |
| also Meadow mouse | Widely distributed in grasslands of northern United States and Canada. | Mammals | Schooler | 8.1K |
| also Andrena, Andrenid | A bee that is a member of the genus Andrena. | Insects | Schooler | 8.1K |
| also Moufflon | Wild mountain sheep of Corsica and Sardinia. | Mammals | Schooler | 8.1K |
| Bottom-dwelling freshwater turtle inhabiting muddy rivers of North America and Central America. | Reptiles | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| also Muttonfish | Similar to and often marketed as `red snapper'. | Fish | Schooler | 8.1K |
| also Indian tapir | A tapir found in Malaya and Sumatra. | Mammals | Schooler | 6.6K |
| Any of numerous small bright-colored birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behavior. | Birds | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| Supposed human-sized sloth-like creature reportedly sighted by Indians in the Amazon rain forest. | Mammals | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| also Massasauga | Pygmy rattlesnake found in moist areas from the Great Lakes to Mexico. | Reptiles | Schooler | 6.6K |
| also Black kite | Dark Old World kite feeding chiefly on carrion. | Birds | Schooler | 6.6K |
| Silvery topminnow with rows of black spots of tropical North America and West Indies. | Fish | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| also Sewellel | Bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific coast of North America. | Mammals | Schooler | 6.6K |
| Black-and-white diving bird of northern seas. | Birds | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| also June beetle, June bug, May beetle | Any of various large usually brown North American leaf-eating beetles common in late spring. | Insects | Schooler | 5.4K |
| breed | Breed evolved from shorthorn beef cattle. | Mammals | Schooler | 5.4K |
| Marine gastropods having smooth rounded shells that form short spires. | Molluscs | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| Black gallinule that inhabits ponds and lakes. | Birds | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| General term for any terrestrial arthropod having an elongated body composed of many similar segments: e.g. centipedes and millipedes. | Other invertebrates | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| also Marco Polo's sheep | Asiatic wild sheep with exceptionally large horns. | Mammals | Schooler | 4.4K |
| Any of various solitary wasps that construct nests of hardened mud for their young. | Insects | Schooler | 4.4K | |
| also Mound bird, Mound-bird, Mound builder | Large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia. | Birds | Schooler | 4.4K |
| also Beaded lizard | Lizard with black and yellowish beadlike scales. | Reptiles | Schooler | 4.4K |
| Domestic carp with some large shining scales. | Fish | Schooler | 4.4K | |
| Any of various moths that have powdery wings. | Insects | Schooler | 4.4K | |
| also Mountain partridge | California partridge. | Birds | Schooler | 4.4K |
| Flattened disk-shaped stony coral (usually solitary and unattached). | Other invertebrates | Schooler | 4.4K | |
| Large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids. | Mammals | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| Widely distributed in northeastern and central United States and Canada. | Mammals | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| also Momot | Tropical American bird resembling a blue jay and having greenish and bluish plumage. | Birds | Schooler | 3.6K |
| also Malaria mosquito | Transmits the malaria parasite. | Insects | Schooler | 2.9K |
| Insect that resembles a mantis. | Insects | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| Large European freshwater leech formerly used for bloodletting. | Worms | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| Typically having large ears and feeding primarily on insects. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| Small freshwater sculpin of Europe and North America. | Fish | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| also Millepede, Milliped | Any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs. | Other invertebrates | Schooler | 2.9K |
| Any wild sheep inhabiting mountainous regions. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| Silver-and-black killifish of saltwater marshes along the Atlantic coast of the United States. | Fish | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| Fierce pelagic and oceanic sharks. | Fish | Schooler | 2.4K | |
| Common black-striped reddish-brown ground squirrel of western North America. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.4K | |
| A wren of the genus Cistothorus that frequents marshes. | Birds | Schooler | 2.4K | |
| also Fruit bat | Large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.4K |
| The typical Old World quail. | Birds | Schooler | 2.4K | |
| also Affenpinscher, Monkey pinscherbreed | European breed of small dog resembling a terrier with dark wiry hair and a tufted muzzle. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.4K |
| Narrow-striped nearly extinct zebra of southern Africa. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.4K | |
| A carnivorous bat with ears like a mouse. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.4K | |
| also Flathead catfish, Goujon, Shovelnose catfish | Large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw. | Fish | Schooler | 2.4K |
| A major subclass of crustaceans. | Crustaceans | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| Advanced carnivorous theropod. | Reptiles | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| also Gallinule, Water hen, Swamphen | Any of various small aquatic birds of the genus Gallinula distinguished from rails by a frontal shield and a resemblance to domestic hens. | Birds | Schooler | 1.9K |
| also Medfly | Small black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit. | Insects | Schooler | 1.9K |
| breed | North American three-toed Oligocene animal. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.9K |
| also Bean beetle | Introduced into the United States from Mexico. | Insects | Schooler | 1.9K |
| also Northern harrier, Hen harrier | Common harrier of North America and Europe. | Birds | Schooler | 1.6K |
| also Pouched mole | Small burrowing Australian marsupial that resembles a mole. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.6K |
| also Holometabola | Insects that undergo complete metamorphosis. | Insects | Schooler | 1.6K |
| Primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.6K | |
| also Monaul | Brilliantly colored pheasant of southern Asia. | Birds | Schooler | 1.6K |
| breed | A racehorse that runs well on a muddy racetrack. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.6K |
| A soft-furred chocolate-brown bat with folded ears and small wings. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| also Sea mew | The common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America. | Birds | Schooler | 1.3K |
| Large (bear-sized) extinct edentate mammal of the Pleistocene in South America. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| also Myrtle bird | Similar to Audubon's warbler. | Birds | Schooler | 1.3K |
| Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches. | Birds | Schooler | 1K | |
| Old World harrier frequenting marshy regions. | Birds | Schooler | 1K | |
| Any of various carnivorous insects of the order Mecoptera. | Insects | Schooler | 1K | |
| Small black-and-white shearwater common in the northeastern Atlantic. | Birds | Rare | 880 | |
| Commonest shrew of moist habitats in North America. | Mammals | Rare | 880 | |
| also Mistle thrush, Mistletoe thrush | Large European thrush that feeds on mistletoe berries. | Birds | Rare | 720 |
| Cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of the southern Pacific and in parts of Africa. | Molluscs | Rare | 720 | |
| also Mountain chinchilla | A rodent native to the mountains of Chile and Peru and now bred in captivity. | Mammals | Rare | 720 |
| also Maiger | Large European marine food fish. | Fish | Rare | 590 |
| also Leipoa, Lowan | Australian mound bird. | Birds | Rare | 590 |
| also Medusan | One of two forms that coelenterates take: it is the free-swimming sexual phase in the life cycle of a coelenterate. | Other invertebrates | Rare | 590 |
| Old World locust that travels in vast swarms stripping large areas of vegetation. | Insects | Rare | 590 | |
| Brownish European harrier. | Birds | Rare | 590 | |
| Large important food fish of Australia. | Fish | Rare | 590 | |
| also Mackerel shad | Small silvery fish. | Fish | Rare | 480 |
| Shaggy antelope of mountains of Ethiopia. | Mammals | Rare | 480 | |
| Small moth whose larvae damage stored grain and flour. | Insects | Rare | 390 | |
| Similar in habit to Alytes obstetricians. | Amphibians | Rare | 390 | |
| also Pouched mouse, Marsupial rat | Any of numerous small sharp-nosed insectivorous marsupials superficially resembling mice or rats. | Mammals | Rare | 320 |
| A common pipit that is brown above and white below. | Birds | Rare | 320 | |
| North American insect that severely damages grasses. | Insects | Rare | 320 | |
| also Mytilid | Marine bivalve mollusk having a dark elongated shell. | Molluscs | Rare | 210 |
| Desert lizard that feeds on ants. | Reptiles | Rare | 210 | |
| Rodent of mountains of western South America. | Mammals | Rare | 210 | |
| also Stony coral, Madriporian coral | Corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands. | Other invertebrates | Rare | 170 |
| A wood rabbit of marshy coastal areas from North Carolina to Florida. | Mammals | Rare | 140 | |
| Serious pest of grain-growing and range areas of central and western United States. | Insects | Rare | 140 | |
| Any of various fishes that carry their eggs and their young in their mouths. | Fish | Rare | 140 | |
| Esteemed for its flavor. | Fish | Rare | 110 | |
| also Gayal | Ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur. | Mammals | Rare | 110 |
| also Striped killifish, May fish | Black-barred fish of bays and coastal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States. | Fish | Deep Cut | 90 |
| Large-eared greyish bat of southern California and northwestern Mexico. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 70 | |
| also Megatheriid, Megatherian mammal | A large extinct ground sloth. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 70 |
| Southern African weasel. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 70 | |
| Frequents oak and pine habitats in rocky mountainous areas of United States southwest and Mexico. | Reptiles | Deep Cut | 50 | |
| A type of water shrew. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 20 | |
| also Mother Carey's hen | Medium-sized storm petrel. | Birds | Deep Cut | 20 |
| A shrike of central North America. | Birds | Deep Cut | 10 | |
| Small kangaroo of northeastern Australia. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 10 | |
| A variety of extinct edentate. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 10 | |
| Any of various beetles of the family (or subfamily) Melolonthidae. | Insects | One in a Krillion | <10 | |
| Large pocket mouse of Mexico. | Mammals | One in a Krillion | <10 | |
| Brownish-black burrowing salamander of southeastern United States. | Amphibians | One in a Krillion | <10 | |
| A variety of crocodile. | Reptiles | One in a Krillion | <10 |
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Questions about animals that start with M
How many animals start with M?
RareList lists 228 animals that start with M, including 20 breeds. 44 are in the Plankton tier, the names everyone knows, and 41 are in the Rare tier or rarer.
What are common animals that start with M?
The most searched animals starting with M are Monkey, Manatee, Marlin, Moose and Mouse.
What is a rare animal that starts with M?
Migrant shrike is one of the rarest. A shrike of central North America. It gets about 10 US searches a month. Other rare picks: Manx shearwater, Masked shrew and Missel thrush.
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.