Animals that start with Q
15 animals, sorted from the ones everyone says first to the ones almost nobody thinks of. 1 of them is in the Rare tier or rarer.
- 2 Plankton
- 7 Too Clever
- 5 Schooler
- 1 Rare
- 0 Deep Cut
- 0 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.
- Queenfish
- Silvery and bluish drumfish of shallow California coastal waters.
- Queen mole rat
- An especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males.
All 15 animals that start with Q
Sorted by search interest, most familiar first. The last column is average monthly US Google searches.
Showing all 15. Tap a name to copy it.
| Name | What it is | Group | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small wallaby of south-western Australia, best known from Rottnest Island. | Mammals | Plankton | 368K | |
| Small gallinaceous game birds. | Birds | Plankton | 201K | |
| also Quetzal bird | Large trogon of Central America and South America having golden-green and scarlet plumage. | Birds | Too Clever | 74K |
| Fertile egg-laying female bee. | Insects | Too Clever | 61K | |
| also Quahaug, Hard-shell clam, Hard clam | An edible American clam. | Molluscs | Too Clever | 33K |
| breed | A small powerful horse originally bred for sprinting in quarter-mile races in Virginia. | Mammals | Too Clever | 33K |
| also Chinook, Chinook salmon, King salmon | Large Pacific salmon valued as food. | Fish | Too Clever | 33K |
| Mammal of South Africa that resembled a zebra. | Mammals | Too Clever | 27K | |
| Spotted carnivorous marsupial native to Australia and New Guinea. | Mammals | Too Clever | 18K | |
| Large edible sea snail of the Caribbean with a pink-lipped shell. | Molluscs | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| Slender North American water snake that feeds mostly on crayfish. | Reptiles | Schooler | 8.1K | |
| Brightly coloured blue-and-yellow angelfish of western Atlantic reefs. | Fish | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| also Bessy cerca, Oldwench, Oldwife | Tropical Atlantic fish. | Fish | Schooler | 2.9K |
| An especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| also White croaker | Silvery and bluish drumfish of shallow California coastal waters. | Fish | Rare | 880 |
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Questions about animals that start with Q
How many animals start with Q?
RareList lists 15 animals that start with Q, including 1 breed. 2 are in the Plankton tier, the names everyone knows, and 1 is in the Rare tier or rarer.
What are common animals that start with Q?
The most searched animals starting with Q are Quokka, Quail, Quetzal, Queen bee and Quahog.
What is a rare animal that starts with Q?
Queenfish is one of the rarest. Silvery and bluish drumfish of shallow California coastal waters. It gets about 880 US searches a month. Other rare picks: Queen mole rat.
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.