Animals that start with P
280 animals, sorted from the ones everyone says first to the ones almost nobody thinks of. 75 of them are in the Rare tier or rarer.
- 41 Plankton
- 80 Too Clever
- 84 Schooler
- 44 Rare
- 21 Deep Cut
- 10 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.
- Pectoral sandpiper
- American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting.
- Pintado
- Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters.
- Planula
- The flat ciliated free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates.
- Pacific sardine
- Small pilchards common off the pacific coast of North America.
- Piddock
- Marine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells.
- Plant louse
- Any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants.
All 280 animals that start with P
Sorted by search interest, most familiar first. The last column is average monthly US Google searches.
Showing all 280. Tap a name to copy it.
| Name | What it is | Group | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| also Peacock butterfly | European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot. | Insects | Plankton | 5M |
| A leopard in the black color phase. | Mammals | Plankton | 1.2M | |
| Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers. | Birds | Plankton | 1M | |
| also Cougar, Catamount, Mountain lion | Large American feline resembling a lion. | Mammals | Plankton | 823K |
| also Giant panda, Panda bear, Coon bear | Large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of China and Tibet. | Mammals | Plankton | 673K |
| Large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish. | Birds | Plankton | 450K | |
| breed | Breed of very small compact long-haired dogs of the spitz type. | Mammals | Plankton | 450K |
| Large Old World boas. | Reptiles | Plankton | 450K | |
| also Pug-dogbreed | Small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle. | Mammals | Plankton | 368K |
| breed | A long-haired breed of cat. | Mammals | Plankton | 301K |
| also Duckbill, Duckbilled platypus, Duck-billed platypus | Small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet. | Mammals | Plankton | 301K |
| also Phalanger | Small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails. | Mammals | Plankton | 301K |
| also Scaly anteater | Toothless mammal of southern Africa and Asia having a body covered with horny scales and a long snout for feeding on ants and termites. | Mammals | Plankton | 246K |
| Usually brightly colored zygodactyl tropical birds with short hooked beaks and the ability to mimic sounds. | Birds | Plankton | 246K | |
| also Winkle | Edible marine gastropod. | Molluscs | Plankton | 246K |
| Wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs. | Birds | Plankton | 246K | |
| also Ice bear | White bear of Arctic regions. | Mammals | Plankton | 246K |
| breed | A range horse of the western United States. | Mammals | Plankton | 246K |
| also Poodle dogbreed | An intelligent dog with a heavy curly solid-colored coat that is usually clipped. | Mammals | Plankton | 246K |
| also Praying mantid | The common mantis. | Insects | Plankton | 246K |
| also Threadworm | Small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children. | Worms | Plankton | 201K |
| also Parrakeet, Parroket, Paraquet | Any of numerous small slender long-tailed parrots. | Birds | Plankton | 165K |
| Relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur. | Mammals | Plankton | 165K | |
| also Prairie marmot | Any of several rodents of North American prairies living in large complex burrows having a barking cry. | Mammals | Plankton | 165K |
| Extinct flying reptile. | Reptiles | Plankton | 165K | |
| also Puffer, Blowfish, Globefish | Any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe. | Fish | Plankton | 165K |
| also Manul | Small wildcat of the mountains of Siberia and Tibet and Mongolia. | Mammals | Plankton | 135K |
| Spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes. | Fish | Plankton | 135K | |
| also Peregrine | A widely distributed falcon formerly used in falconry. | Birds | Plankton | 135K |
| Large long-tailed gallinaceous bird native to the Old World but introduced elsewhere. | Birds | Plankton | 135K | |
| also Pirana, Caribe | Small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals. | Fish | Plankton | 135K |
| One of two forms that coelenterates take (e.g. a hydra or coral): usually sedentary with a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth. | Other invertebrates | Plankton | 135K | |
| Any of two genera of northern seabirds having short necks and brightly colored compressed bills. | Birds | Plankton | 135K | |
| Small brilliantly colored North American sunfish. | Fish | Plankton | 135K | |
| breed | Small slender toy spaniel with erect ears and a black-spotted brown to white coat. | Mammals | Plankton | 110K |
| also Pekinese, Pekebreed | A Chinese breed of small short-legged dogs with a long silky coat and broad flat muzzle. | Mammals | Plankton | 110K |
| also Phasmid | Large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants. | Insects | Plankton | 110K |
| also Mouse hare, Rock rabbit, Cony | Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America. | Mammals | Plankton | 110K |
| Any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere. | Fish | Plankton | 110K | |
| New World vipers with hollow fangs and a heat-sensitive pit on each side of the head. | Reptiles | Plankton | 110K | |
| breed | An American breed of domestic fowl. | Birds | Plankton | 110K |
| Any of several social wasps that construct nests of a substance like paper. | Insects | Too Clever | 91K | |
| also Pollack | Important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic). | Fish | Too Clever | 91K |
| also Colorado potato beetle, Colorado beetle, Potato beetle | Black-and-yellow beetle that feeds in adult and larval stages on potato leaves. | Insects | Too Clever | 91K |
| Borneo monkey having a long bulbous nose. | Mammals | Too Clever | 91K | |
| also Prongbuck, Pronghorn antelope, American antelope | Fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns. | Mammals | Too Clever | 91K |
| also Snapping shrimp | Small shrimp that makes a snapping noise with one of their enlarged chelae. | Crustaceans | Too Clever | 74K |
| also American Staffordshire terrier, Staffordshire terrier, American pit bull terrierbreed | American breed of muscular terriers with a short close-lying stiff coat. | Mammals | Too Clever | 74K |
| Any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth. | Mammals | Too Clever | 74K | |
| Shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers. | Crustaceans | Too Clever | 74K | |
| also Pachycephalosaur | Bipedal herbivore having 10 inches of bone atop its head. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 61K |
| also Trade rat, Bushytail woodrat | Any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America. | Mammals | Too Clever | 61K |
| also Duckbill | Primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout. | Fish | Too Clever | 61K |
| Dark brown marten of northern Eurasian coniferous forests. | Mammals | Too Clever | 61K | |
| breed | A brindle-coated American hound used in hunting bears and wild boars. | Mammals | Too Clever | 61K |
| also Domestic fowl, Fowl | A domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl. | Birds | Too Clever | 61K |
| also Painted terrapin, Painted tortoise | Freshwater turtles having bright yellow and red markings. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 50K |
| breed | A horse of light tan or golden color with cream-colored or white mane and tail. | Mammals | Too Clever | 50K |
| also Pembrokebreed | The smaller and straight-legged variety of corgi having pointed ears and a short tail. | Mammals | Too Clever | 50K |
| also Crab louse | A louse that infests the pubic region of the human body. | Insects | Too Clever | 50K |
| Gregarious North American migratory pigeon now extinct. | Birds | Too Clever | 41K | |
| breed | One of a breed of grey or black draft horses originally used in France to draw heavy coaches or artillery. | Mammals | Too Clever | 41K |
| also Phoebe bird | Small dun-colored North American flycatcher. | Birds | Too Clever | 41K |
| also Black whale, Common blackfish, Blackfish | Small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States. | Mammals | Too Clever | 41K |
| also Flatworm | Parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body. | Worms | Too Clever | 41K |
| also Fitch, Foulmart, Foumart | Dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened. | Mammals | Too Clever | 41K |
| An insect that carries pollen from one flower to another. | Insects | Too Clever | 41K | |
| Very large yellowish-brown American silkworm moth with large eyespots on hind wings. | Insects | Too Clever | 41K | |
| Any of several deep-bodied food fishes of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. | Fish | Too Clever | 41K | |
| Large Arctic and subarctic grouse with feathered feet and usually white winter plumage. | Birds | Too Clever | 41K | |
| also Flying reptile | An extinct reptile of the Jurassic and Cretaceous having a bird-like beak and membranous wings supported by the very long fourth digit of each forelimb. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 41K |
| Large North American martin of which the male is blue-black. | Birds | Too Clever | 41K | |
| The smallest monkey. | Mammals | Too Clever | 41K | |
| Small Old World gallinaceous game birds. | Birds | Too Clever | 33K | |
| also Pharaoh's ant | Small red ant of warm regions. | Insects | Too Clever | 33K |
| also Polly fish, Pollyfish | Gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth. | Fish | Too Clever | 27K |
| Perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch. | Birds | Too Clever | 27K | |
| also Pewee, Peewit, Pewit | Small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America. | Birds | Too Clever | 27K |
| Small terrestrial isopod with a convex segmented body that can roll up into a ball. | Crustaceans | Too Clever | 27K | |
| also Pin-tailed duck | Long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers. | Birds | Too Clever | 27K |
| breed | A spotted or calico horse or pony. | Mammals | Too Clever | 27K |
| also Plesiosaurus | Extinct marine reptile with a small head on a long neck a short tail and four paddle-shaped limbs. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 27K |
| breed | A mettlesome or fiery horse. | Mammals | Too Clever | 27K |
| North American finch having a raspberry-red head and breast and rump. | Birds | Too Clever | 27K | |
| Large burrowing rodent of South America and Central America. | Mammals | Too Clever | 22K | |
| also Musk hog | Nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America. | Mammals | Too Clever | 22K |
| Any of several North American species of small pike. | Fish | Too Clever | 22K | |
| also Pinniped, Pinnatiped | Aquatic carnivorous mammal having a streamlined body specialized for swimming with limbs modified as flippers. | Mammals | Too Clever | 22K |
| also Planaria | Free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms. | Worms | Too Clever | 22K |
| Any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings. | Birds | Too Clever | 22K | |
| also Arctic hare | A large hare of northern North America. | Mammals | Too Clever | 22K |
| breed | Any dog trained to assist police especially in tracking. | Mammals | Too Clever | 22K |
| also Prairie grouse, Prairie fowl | Brown mottled North American grouse of western prairies. | Birds | Too Clever | 22K |
| also Przevalski's horsebreed | Wild horse of central Asia that resembles an ass. | Mammals | Too Clever | 22K |
| Any of various nonruminant hoofed mammals having very thick skin: elephant. | Mammals | Too Clever | 18K | |
| also Nine-banded armadillo, Texas armadillo | Having nine hinged bands of bony plates. | Mammals | Too Clever | 18K |
| South American tamarin with a tufted head. | Mammals | Too Clever | 18K | |
| Small plover of eastern North America. | Birds | Too Clever | 18K | |
| also Ribbon worm, Nemertean, Nemertine | Soft unsegmented marine worms that have a threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract. | Worms | Too Clever | 18K |
| also False scorpion | Small nonvenomous arachnid resembling a tailless scorpion. | Spiders & arachnids | Too Clever | 18K |
| Large African viper that inflates its body when alarmed. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 18K | |
| also Bonobo | Small chimpanzee of swamp forests in Zaire. | Mammals | Too Clever | 18K |
| also Bird of Juno | Very large terrestrial southeast Asian pheasant often raised as an ornamental bird. | Birds | Too Clever | 15K |
| Similar to sea bream. | Fish | Too Clever | 15K | |
| also Gopher, Pouched rat | Burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches. | Mammals | Too Clever | 15K |
| Deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific. | Fish | Too Clever | 15K | |
| also Doggie, Doggy, Barkerbreed | Informal terms for dogs. | Mammals | Too Clever | 15K |
| also Sponge, Parazoan | Primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework. | Other invertebrates | Too Clever | 15K |
| Australian rat kangaroos. | Mammals | Too Clever | 15K | |
| also Psittacosaurus | Primitive dinosaur actually lacking horns and having only the beginning of a frill. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 15K |
| also White sturgeon, Sacramento sturgeon | Food and game fish of marine and fresh waters of northwestern coast of North America. | Fish | Too Clever | 12K |
| also Palm civet | Spotted or striped arboreal civet of southeast Asia and East Indies. | Mammals | Too Clever | 12K |
| also Woodpecker, Pecker | Bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects. | Birds | Too Clever | 12K |
| also Pine finch | Small finch of North American coniferous forests. | Birds | Too Clever | 12K |
| Fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates. | Fish | Too Clever | 12K | |
| Small stocky Mexican fish. | Fish | Too Clever | 12K | |
| Voracious pointed-nose shark of northern Atlantic and Pacific. | Fish | Too Clever | 12K | |
| Important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters. | Fish | Too Clever | 12K | |
| A kind of lemur. | Mammals | Too Clever | 12K | |
| Small horned dinosaur. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 12K | |
| also Kitty-cat, Pussybreed | Informal terms referring to a domestic cat. | Mammals | Too Clever | 12K |
| breed | A horse used to set the pace in racing. | Mammals | Schooler | 9.9K |
| also Paddymelon | Small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea. | Mammals | Schooler | 9.9K |
| also Ocelot | Nocturnal wildcat of Central America and South America having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat. | Mammals | Schooler | 9.9K |
| Small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe. | Fish | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| also Pipistrel | Small European brown bat. | Mammals | Schooler | 9.9K |
| Spines become erect when the body is inflated. | Fish | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| also Helminth | Worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes. | Worms | Schooler | 8.1K |
| also Elaphure | Large Chinese deer surviving only in domesticated herds. | Mammals | Schooler | 8.1K |
| Any of several bull snakes of eastern and southeastern United States found chiefly in pine woods. | Reptiles | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| White Australian cockatoo with roseate tinged plumage. | Birds | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| breed | Any of three breeds of dogs whose ears and tail are usually cropped. | Mammals | Schooler | 8.1K |
| also Prairie rattler, Western rattlesnake | Widely distributed between the Mississippi and the Rockies. | Reptiles | Schooler | 8.1K |
| also Punkie, Punkey, No-see-um | Minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects. | Insects | Schooler | 8.1K |
| Gallinules with showy purplish plumage. | Birds | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| Relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land. | Birds | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| A meadow frog of eastern North America. | Amphibians | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| American grebe having a black-banded whitish bill. | Birds | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| Found from Long Island southward. | Fish | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| also New World monkey | Hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails. | Mammals | Schooler | 6.6K |
| Any of various solitary wasps that construct vase-shaped cells of mud for their eggs. | Insects | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| A righteye flounder found in the Pacific. | Fish | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| also Nautilus, Argonaut | Cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells. | Molluscs | Schooler | 5.4K |
| also Hussar monkey | Reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa. | Mammals | Schooler | 5.4K |
| Tiny soft-bodied crab living commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve mollusks. | Crustaceans | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| Small pelagic fish often accompanying sharks or mantas. | Fish | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| Large grosbeak of coniferous forests of Old and New Worlds. | Birds | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| Fish-like vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body. | Other animals | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| Related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants. | Insects | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| also Plantigrade mammal | An animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings. | Mammals | Schooler | 5.4K |
| also Polychete, Polychaete worm, Polychete worm | Chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles. | Worms | Schooler | 5.4K |
| Plantigrade carnivorous mammals. | Mammals | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| Crested grey-and-red bird of southwest United States and Mexico. | Birds | Schooler | 5.4K | |
| also Alaska cod | Closely related to Atlantic cod. | Fish | Schooler | 4.4K |
| breed | Especially a light saddle horse for a woman. | Mammals | Schooler | 4.4K |
| also Cave bat | Drab yellowish big-eared bat that lives in caves. | Mammals | Schooler | 4.4K |
| also Titlark | A songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country. | Birds | Schooler | 4.4K |
| Large European food fish. | Fish | Schooler | 4.4K | |
| Tropical marine bivalve found chiefly off eastern Asia and Pacific coast of North America and Central America. | Molluscs | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| Found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds. | Fish | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| also Leaf bug | Small bright-colored insect that feeds on plant juices. | Insects | Schooler | 3.6K |
| also Pole horsebreed | A draft horse harnessed alongside the shaft or pole of a vehicle. | Mammals | Schooler | 3.6K |
| Typical vole of the extended prairie region of central United States and southern Canada. | Mammals | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| Massive herbivorous mammals having tusks and a long trunk. | Mammals | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| Small winged insect living on the bark and leaves of trees and feeding on e.g. fungi and decaying plant matter. | Insects | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| An African antelope closely related to the waterbuck. | Mammals | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| also Pye-dog, Pie-dogbreed | Ownerless half-wild mongrel dog common around Asian villages especially India. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.9K |
| Any bird of the genus Pitta. | Birds | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| also Eutherian, Eutherian mammal | Mammals having a placenta. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.9K |
| Any of various rodents with cheek pouches. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| also Chiton, Coat-of-mail shell, Sea cradle | Primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates. | Molluscs | Schooler | 2.9K |
| Black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil. | Fish | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| Primitive primates having large ears and eyes and characterized by nocturnal habits. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.9K | |
| also Sipunculid | Small unsegmented marine worm that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body giving the appearance of a peanut. | Other invertebrates | Schooler | 2.4K |
| also Seventeen-year locust | North American cicada. | Insects | Schooler | 2.4K |
| Small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers. | Birds | Schooler | 2.4K | |
| Northern Pacific guillemot. | Birds | Schooler | 2.4K | |
| Any of various small nocturnal burrowing desert rodents with cheek pouches and long hind legs and tail. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.4K | |
| breed | A small agile horse specially bred and trained for playing polo. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.4K |
| also Pouter | One of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out. | Birds | Schooler | 2.4K |
| Very small dark greyish brown mouse resembling a house mouse. | Mammals | Schooler | 2.4K | |
| Large (to 7 inches) salamander of western North America. | Amphibians | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| Any of several pike-like fishes of the perch family. | Fish | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| Large beetle whose larvae bore holes in pine trees. | Insects | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| also Jumping plant louse, Psylla | Small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping. | Insects | Schooler | 1.9K |
| also California pompano | Smaller than Florida pompano. | Fish | Schooler | 1.6K |
| Large primitive reptile having a tall spinal sail. | Reptiles | Schooler | 1.6K | |
| also Stonefly | Primitive winged insect with a flattened body. | Insects | Schooler | 1.6K |
| A pig fattened to provide meat. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.6K | |
| Important food fish of the northern Pacific. | Fish | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| A walrus of the Bering Sea and northern Pacific. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| also Soft-shelled turtle | Voracious aquatic turtle with a flat flexible shell covered by a leathery skin. | Reptiles | Schooler | 1.3K |
| also Arctic skua | A variety of jaeger. | Birds | Schooler | 1.3K |
| also Poyou | Argentine armadillo with six movable bands and hairy underparts. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.3K |
| also Pine mouse | Short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.3K |
| also Ant, Emmet | Social insect living in organized colonies. | Insects | Schooler | 1.3K |
| also Plough horsebreed | A horse used to pull a plow. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.3K |
| Goatsucker of western North America. | Birds | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| also Telsontail | Any of several minute primitive wingless and eyeless insects having a cone-shaped head. | Insects | Schooler | 1.3K |
| Large European butterfly the male of which has wings shaded with purple. | Insects | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| also Pyralid moth | Usually tropical slender-bodied long-legged moth whose larvae are crop pests. | Insects | Schooler | 1.3K |
| Hermaphrodite wormlike animal living in mud of the sea bottom. | Other invertebrates | Schooler | 1K | |
| Heavy-bodied Old World diving duck having a grey-and-black body and reddish head. | Birds | Schooler | 1K | |
| also Water strider, Water skater | Long-legged bug that skims about on the surface of water. | Insects | Schooler | 1K |
| also Coyote, Brush wolf | Small wolf native to western North America. | Mammals | Schooler | 1K |
| American sandpiper that inflates its chest when courting. | Birds | Rare | 880 | |
| also Cero | Large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters. | Fish | Rare | 880 |
| The flat ciliated free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates. | Other invertebrates | Rare | 880 | |
| Small pilchards common off the pacific coast of North America. | Fish | Rare | 720 | |
| Marine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells. | Molluscs | Rare | 720 | |
| Any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants. | Insects | Rare | 720 | |
| breed | A horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers. | Mammals | Rare | 720 |
| also Chile bonito, Chilean bonito | Common bonito of Pacific coast of the Americas. | Fish | Rare | 590 |
| Dogfish of Pacific coast of North America. | Fish | Rare | 590 | |
| also Oceanic bird | Bird of the open seas. | Birds | Rare | 590 |
| also Pisanosaur | Primitive dinosaur found in Argentina. | Reptiles | Rare | 590 |
| Gopher of chiefly grasslands of central North America. | Mammals | Rare | 590 | |
| Colonial siphonophore of up to 130 ft long. | Other invertebrates | Rare | 590 | |
| Primitive oviparous mammals found only in Australia and Tasmania and New Guinea. | Mammals | Rare | 590 | |
| Brownish tropical American bird having a large head with fluffed out feathers. | Birds | Rare | 590 | |
| Eastern United States grackle. | Birds | Rare | 590 | |
| also Lapwing, Green plover, Pewit | Large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs. | Birds | Rare | 480 |
| also Odd-toed ungulate | Placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot. | Mammals | Rare | 480 |
| also Pheasant cuckoo | Australian bird with a tail like a pheasant. | Birds | Rare | 480 |
| Any member of the genus Physa. | Molluscs | Rare | 480 | |
| This spadefoot toad lives in plains and hills and river bottoms in areas of low rainfall east of the Rocky Mountains. | Amphibians | Rare | 480 | |
| Most primitive avian type known. | Birds | Rare | 390 | |
| breed | The horse having a starting position next to the inside rail in a harness race. | Mammals | Rare | 320 |
| also Glareole | Old World shorebird with long pointed wings and short legs. | Birds | Rare | 320 |
| American butterfly having dark brown wings with white and golden orange spots. | Insects | Rare | 260 | |
| also Convict fish, Convictfish | Greenling with whitish body marked with black bands. | Fish | Rare | 260 |
| also Rose-colored starling, Rose-colored pastor, Pastor sturnus | Glossy black bird with pink back and abdomen. | Birds | Rare | 260 |
| Larvae live in and feed on seeds of the pea plant. | Insects | Rare | 260 | |
| A kind of razor fish. | Fish | Rare | 260 | |
| also Pentail | Brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third. | Mammals | Rare | 260 |
| Small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas. | Fish | Rare | 260 | |
| Any of several rough-skinned newts found in western North America. | Amphibians | Rare | 210 | |
| Having distinct longitudinal stripes: of Colorado Plateau from Arizona to western Colorado. | Reptiles | Rare | 210 | |
| also Armed bullhead | Northern Atlantic sea poacher. | Fish | Rare | 210 |
| Small woodpeckers of South America and Africa and East Indies having soft rounded tail feathers. | Birds | Rare | 170 | |
| also Beard worm | Slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering. | Worms | Rare | 170 |
| Solitary bee that builds nests of mud or pebbles cemented together and attached to a plant. | Insects | Rare | 170 | |
| also Bezoar goat | Wild goat of Iran and adjacent regions. | Mammals | Rare | 140 |
| also Pierid butterfly | Any of numerous pale-colored butterflies having three pairs of well-developed legs. | Insects | Rare | 140 |
| Popular Australian game bird. | Birds | Rare | 140 | |
| Small rodent of open areas of United States plains states. | Mammals | Rare | 140 | |
| also Potato tuber moth, Splitworm | Greyish-brown moth whose larva is the potato tuberworm. | Insects | Rare | 140 |
| A bottlenose dolphin found in the Pacific Ocean. | Mammals | Rare | 110 | |
| also Piping crow-shrike | Crow-sized black-and-white bird. | Birds | Rare | 110 |
| also Tongue worm | Wormlike arthropod having two pairs of hooks at the sides of the mouth. | Other invertebrates | Deep Cut | 90 |
| Any of several vole-like terrestrial or arboreal rodents of cold forested regions of Canada and western United States. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 90 | |
| A fly of the family Psychodidae. | Insects | Deep Cut | 90 | |
| Eurasiatic sandgrouse with a black patch on the belly. | Birds | Deep Cut | 70 | |
| also Pin-tailed grouse | Sandgrouse of Europe and Africa having elongated middle tail feathers. | Birds | Deep Cut | 70 |
| Extremely destructive dry-wood termite of warm regions. | Insects | Deep Cut | 70 | |
| breed | Pliocene horse approaching donkeys in size. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 70 |
| Bluish and bronze wrasse. | Fish | Deep Cut | 70 | |
| North American insect that attacks pines. | Insects | Deep Cut | 50 | |
| A kind of guan. | Birds | Deep Cut | 50 | |
| Sandgrouse of India. | Birds | Deep Cut | 40 | |
| Tropical American fishes. | Fish | Deep Cut | 40 | |
| Tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines. | Fish | Deep Cut | 40 | |
| A kind of scorpionfish. | Fish | Deep Cut | 40 | |
| also Topminnow, Poeciliid fish, Live-bearer | Small usually brightly-colored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters. | Fish | Deep Cut | 40 |
| In some former classifications: name for the Ephemeroptera. | Insects | Deep Cut | 30 | |
| also Pocketed freetail bat | Small brown bat of California and northern Mexico. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 30 |
| The pearly lining of the dark shells is a source of mother-of-pearl. | Molluscs | Deep Cut | 10 | |
| North American lemming having a white winter coat and some claws much enlarged. | Mammals | Deep Cut | 10 | |
| A variety of adelgid. | Insects | Deep Cut | 10 | |
| Small Australian bird related to the button quail. | Birds | Deep Cut | 10 | |
| The most commonly heard frog on the Pacific coast of America. | Amphibians | One in a Krillion | <10 | |
| Important pest of chrysanthemums. | Insects | One in a Krillion | <10 | |
| A Chinese moth that produces a brownish silk. | Insects | One in a Krillion | <10 | |
| Aquatic birds related to the loons. | Birds | One in a Krillion | <10 | |
| A strain of pest accidentally imported into Florida from the Middle East then spread to California where it is a very serious pest feeding on almost all vegetable crops and poinsettias. | Insects | One in a Krillion | <10 | |
| A tame parrot. | Birds | One in a Krillion | <10 | |
| Tattler of Pacific coastal regions. | Birds | One in a Krillion | <10 | |
| Large long-winged bird with hooked bill and tubular nostrils that wanders the open seas. | Birds | One in a Krillion | <10 | |
| Small soft-bodied insect with chewing mouthparts and either no wings or two pairs. | Insects | One in a Krillion | <10 | |
| Small sperm whale of warm waters of both coasts of North America. | Mammals | One in a Krillion | <10 |
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Questions about animals that start with P
How many animals start with P?
RareList lists 280 animals that start with P, including 29 breeds. 41 are in the Plankton tier, the names everyone knows, and 75 are in the Rare tier or rarer.
What are common animals that start with P?
The most searched animals starting with P are Peacock, Panther, Penguin, Puma and Panda.
What is a rare animal that starts with P?
Pearly-shelled mussel is one of the rarest. The pearly lining of the dark shells is a source of mother-of-pearl. It gets about 10 US searches a month. Other rare picks: Pectoral sandpiper, Pintado and Planula.
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.