Animals that start with V
35 animals, sorted from the ones everyone says first to the ones almost nobody thinks of. 5 of them are in the Rare tier or rarer.
- 5 Plankton
- 9 Too Clever
- 16 Schooler
- 2 Rare
- 3 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.
- Vinegarroon
- Large whip-scorpion of Mexico and southern United States that emits a vinegary odor when alarmed.
- Vedalia
- Native to Australia.
- Vermillion rockfish
- A commercially important fish of the Pacific coast of North America.
- Valley pocket gopher
- Of valleys and mountain meadows of western United States.
- Venus's girdle
- Ctenophore having a ribbon-shaped iridescent gelatinous body.
- Vinegar fly
- Flies whose larvae feed on pickles and imperfectly sealed preserves.
All 35 animals that start with V
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 large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion. | Birds | Plankton | 246K | |
| Small active carnivore that probably fed on protoceratops. | Reptiles | Plankton | 201K | |
| also Hungarian pointerbreed | Hungarian hunting dog resembling the Weimaraner but having a rich deep red coat. | Mammals | Plankton | 135K |
| Any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows. | Mammals | Plankton | 135K | |
| A short porpoise that lives in the Gulf of California. | Mammals | Plankton | 110K | |
| Venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw. | Reptiles | Too Clever | 91K | |
| also True vampire bat | Any of various tropical American bats of the family Desmodontidae that bite mammals and birds to feed on their blood. | Mammals | Too Clever | 61K |
| A solitary wasp of the family Mutillidae. | Insects | Too Clever | 61K | |
| also Snowshoe hare, Snowshoe rabbit | Large large-footed North American hare. | Mammals | Too Clever | 27K |
| Small wild cud-chewing Andean animal similar to the guanaco but smaller. | Mammals | Too Clever | 27K | |
| also Onychophoran, Peripatus | Any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms. | Other invertebrates | Too Clever | 22K |
| also Vervet monkey | South African monkey with black face and hands. | Mammals | Too Clever | 18K |
| Any of various small insectivorous American birds chiefly olive-grey in color. | Birds | Too Clever | 12K | |
| also Chinchillon | Gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas. | Mammals | Too Clever | 12K |
| Showy American butterfly resembling the monarch but smaller. | Insects | Schooler | 9.9K | |
| also Firebird | Tropical American flycatcher found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona. | Birds | Schooler | 8.1K |
| Slender arboreal snake found from southern Arizona to Bolivia. | Reptiles | Schooler | 6.6K | |
| A deep-water marine sponge having a cylindrical skeleton of intricate glassy latticework. | Other invertebrates | Schooler | 4.4K | |
| also Monitor, Monitor lizard | Any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia. | Reptiles | Schooler | 3.6K |
| also Wilson's thrush | Tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song. | Birds | Schooler | 3.6K |
| Any of two or three large heavy-bodied lizards. | Reptiles | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| Very small yellow-headed titmouse of western North America. | Birds | Schooler | 3.6K | |
| also Vinegar worm | Minute eelworm that feeds on organisms that cause fermentation in e.g. vinegar. | Worms | Schooler | 3.6K |
| Common North American finch noted for its evening song. | Birds | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| Mostly social nest-building wasps. | Insects | Schooler | 1.9K | |
| Common edible oyster of Atlantic coast of North America. | Molluscs | Schooler | 1.6K | |
| Of valleys and mountain meadows of western United States. | Mammals | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| Ctenophore having a ribbon-shaped iridescent gelatinous body. | Other invertebrates | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| Flies whose larvae feed on pickles and imperfectly sealed preserves. | Insects | Schooler | 1.3K | |
| also Rasher | A commercially important fish of the Pacific coast of North America. | Fish | Schooler | 1K |
| Large whip-scorpion of Mexico and southern United States that emits a vinegary odor when alarmed. | Spiders & arachnids | Rare | 720 | |
| Native to Australia. | Insects | Rare | 260 | |
| Lorikeet with a colorful coat. | Birds | Deep Cut | 70 | |
| An eelpout of northern Europe that is viviparous. | Fish | Deep Cut | 30 | |
| A small harmless grass snake. | Reptiles | Deep Cut | 10 |
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Questions about animals that start with V
How many animals start with V?
RareList lists 35 animals that start with V, including 1 breed. 5 are in the Plankton tier, the names everyone knows, and 5 are in the Rare tier or rarer.
What are common animals that start with V?
The most searched animals starting with V are Vulture, Velociraptor, Vole, Vaquita and Viper.
What is a rare animal that starts with V?
Viperine grass snake is one of the rarest. A small harmless grass snake. It gets about 10 US searches a month. Other rare picks: Vinegarroon, Vedalia and Vermillion rockfish.
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.