Animals that Start with M


Starting with MA
  1. macaca
  2. macaque
  3. macaw
  4. machilid
  5. machilidae
  6. mackerel
  7. macrocephalon
  8. macrocheira
  9. macroclemys
  10. macrodactylus
  11. macronectes
  12. macropodidae
  13. macropus
  14. macrorhamphosidae
  15. macrotis
  16. macrotus
  17. macrouridae
  18. macrozoarces
  19. macruridae
  20. mademoiselle
  21. madoqua
  22. madreporaria
  23. madrepore
  24. maeandra
  25. maggot
  26. magicicada
  27. magpie
  28. mahimahi
  29. maia
  30. maiger
  31. maigre
  32. maja
  33. majidae
  34. makaira
  35. mako
  36. malacanthidae
  37. malaclemys
  38. malaconotinae
  39. malacopterygian
  40. malacopterygii
  41. malacosoma
  42. malacostraca
  43. malamute
  44. male
  45. malemute
  46. maleo
  47. malinois
  48. mallard
  49. mallophaga
  50. mallotus
  51. malopterurus
  52. maltese
  53. mamba
  54. mammal
  55. mammalia
  56. mammalian
  57. mammoth
  58. mammut
  59. mammuthus
  60. mammutidae
  61. mamo
  62. man
  63. manakin
  64. manatee
  65. mandrill
  66. mandrillus
  67. manduca
  68. mane
  69. mangabey
  70. manidae
  71. maniraptor
  72. maniraptora
  73. manis
  74. manta
  75. manteidae
  76. manteodea
  77. mantid
  78. mantidae
  79. mantis
  80. mantispid
  81. mantispidae
  82. mantophasmatodea
  83. manul
  84. manx
  85. mara
  86. marabou
  87. marabout
  88. mare
  89. margate
  90. margay
  91. marginocephalia
  92. marginocephalian
  93. markhoor
  94. markhor
  95. marlin
  96. marmoset
  97. marmot
  98. marmota
  99. marsupial
  100. marsupialia
  101. marten
  102. martes
  103. martin
  104. massasauga
  105. masticophis
  106. mastiff
  107. mastigophora
  108. mastigoproctus
  109. mastodon
  110. mastodont
  111. mastotermes
  112. mastotermitidae
  113. maverick
  114. mavis
  115. maxostoma
  116. mayetiola
  117. mayfish
  118. mayfly
  119. mazama



Starting with ME
  1. meadowlark
  2. mealworm
  3. mealybug
  4. mecoptera
  5. mecopteran
  6. medfly
  7. medusa
  8. medusan
  9. meerkat
  10. megabat
  11. megachile
  12. megachilidae
  13. megachiroptera
  14. megaderma
  15. megadermatidae
  16. megalobatrachus
  17. megalonychidae
  18. megaloptera
  19. megalosaur
  20. megalosauridae
  21. megalosaurus
  22. megapode
  23. megapodiidae
  24. megapodius
  25. megaptera
  26. megathere
  27. megatherian
  28. megatheriid
  29. megatheriidae
  30. megatherium
  31. melanerpes
  32. melanitta
  33. melanogrammus
  34. melanoplus
  35. melanotis
  36. meleagrididae
  37. meleagris
  38. meles
  39. melinae
  40. meliphagidae
  41. mellivora
  42. melogale
  43. meloid
  44. meloidae
  45. melolontha
  46. melolonthidae
  47. melophagus
  48. melopsittacus
  49. melospiza
  50. melursus
  51. membracidae
  52. menhaden
  53. menippe
  54. menopon
  55. menotyphla
  56. menticirrhus
  57. menura
  58. menurae
  59. menuridae
  60. mephitinae
  61. mephitis
  62. mercenaria
  63. merganser
  64. merginae
  65. mergus
  66. merino
  67. meriones
  68. merl
  69. merlangus
  70. merle
  71. merlin
  72. merluccius
  73. meropidae
  74. merops
  75. merostomata
  76. merozoite
  77. mesenchyme
  78. mesoblast
  79. mesocricetus
  80. mesoderm
  81. mesohippus
  82. metabola
  83. metamere
  84. metatheria
  85. metatherian
  86. metazoa
  87. metazoan
  88. methanogen
  89. mew



Starting with MI
  1. microbat
  2. microbe
  3. microcentrum
  4. microchiroptera
  5. micrococcaceae
  6. micrococcus
  7. microdesmidae
  8. microdipodops
  9. microhylidae
  10. micromyx
  11. microorganism
  12. micropogonias
  13. micropterus
  14. microsporidian
  15. microstomus
  16. microtus
  17. micruroides
  18. micrurus
  19. midge
  20. mierkat
  21. migrator
  22. milcher
  23. milker
  24. millepede
  25. miller
  26. milliped
  27. millipede
  28. milt
  29. milvus
  30. mimidae
  31. mimus
  32. mina
  33. minah
  34. mink
  35. minnow
  36. mirid
  37. miridae
  38. mirounga
  39. mite
  40. mithan

Starting with MO
  1. moa
  2. mobula
  3. mobulidae
  4. mocker
  5. mockingbird
  6. mojarra
  7. moke
  8. mola
  9. mole
  10. molidae
  11. mollie
  12. mollienesia
  13. mollusc
  14. mollusca
  15. mollusk
  16. molly
  17. mollymawk
  18. moloch
  19. molossidae
  20. molothrus
  21. molter
  22. molva
  23. momot
  24. momotidae
  25. momotus
  26. monad
  27. monal
  28. monarch
  29. monaul
  30. monera
  31. moneran
  32. moneron
  33. mongoose
  34. mongrel
  35. monitor
  36. monkey
  37. monkfish
  38. monocanthidae
  39. monocanthus
  40. monochamus
  41. monodon
  42. monodontidae
  43. monohybrid
  44. monomorium
  45. monotremata
  46. monotreme
  47. monster
  48. moonfish
  49. moonshell
  50. moorbird
  51. moorcock
  52. moorfowl
  53. moorgame
  54. moorhen
  55. moose
  56. morgan
  57. morone
  58. morula
  59. moschus
  60. mosquitofish
  61. motacilla
  62. motacillidae
  63. moth
  64. mother hen
  65. motmot
  66. moufflon
  67. mouflon
  68. moulter
  69. mound builder
  70. mount
  71. mountain devil
  72. mouse
  73. mouser
  74. mouthbreeder
  75. mouthpart

Starting with MU
  1. mudcat
  2. mudder
  3. mudskipper
  4. mudspringer
  5. mugil
  6. mugilidae
  7. mugiloidea
  8. muishond
  9. mule
  10. mullet
  11. mullidae
  12. mulloidichthys
  13. mulloway
  14. mullus
  15. mummichog
  16. muntiacus
  17. muntjac
  18. muraenidae
  19. muridae
  20. murine
  21. muroidea
  22. murre
  23. mus
  24. musca
  25. muscardinus
  26. muscicapa
  27. muscicapidae
  28. muscidae
  29. muscivora
  30. muscoidea
  31. muskellunge
  32. muskrat
  33. musophaga
  34. musophagidae
  35. musquash
  36. mussel
  37. mustang
  38. mustela
  39. mustelid
  40. mustelidae
  41. musteline
  42. mustelus
  43. mutant
  44. mutillidae
  45. mutt
  46. muttonfish
  47. muzzle

Starting with MY
  1. mya
  2. myaceae
  3. myacidae
  4. myadestes
  5. mycetophilidae
  6. mycobacteria
  7. mycobacteriaceae
  8. mycobacterium
  9. mycoplasma
  10. mycoplasmataceae
  11. mycoplasmatales
  12. mycrosporidia
  13. mycteria
  14. mycteroperca
  15. myctophidae
  16. myliobatidae
  17. mylodon
  18. mylodontid
  19. mylodontidae
  20. myna
  21. mynah
  22. myocastor
  23. myomorpha
  24. myopus
  25. myotis
  26. myriapod
  27. myriapoda
  28. myrmecia
  29. myrmecobius
  30. myrmecophaga
  31. myrmecophagidae
  32. myrmecophile
  33. myrmeleon
  34. myrmeleontidae
  35. mysidacea
  36. mysidae
  37. mysis
  38. mysticeti
  39. mytilid
  40. mytilidae
  41. mytilus
  42. myxine
  43. myxinidae
  44. myxiniformes
  45. myxinikela
  46. myxinoidea
  47. myxinoidei
  48. myxobacter
  49. myxobacterales
  50. myxobacteria
  51. myxobacteriaceae
  52. myxobacteriales
  53. myxobacterium
  54. myxocephalus
  55. myxophyceae
  56. myxosporidia
  57. myxosporidian
  58. myxovirus



Animals that Start with M

Mouse is a very common noun as well as moles, but there is a huge list of animal names that start with the letter M and you probably never heard about them. Here are some a few of them.

 

Mammals that start with the letter M

Mammal: Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered in hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk.

  • “Hey Sam did you know that people are considered mammals?”

 

Macaque: A short tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa

  • Sally points threw the cage at the zoo, “Mommy that monkey has a short tail.” The mother chuckled and answered her daughter, “Hun that’s a macaque they are born with tiny tails and are normally in Africa.”

 

Macropodidae: Kangaroos; wallabies.

  • An equally brief notice must suffice of the kangaroo tribe or Macropodidae, as some may call them.

Macrotus: A large-eared grayish bat of southern California and northwestern Mexico.

  • Carful when you’re walking around at night you wouldn’t want any Macrotus In your hair. The old man chuckled at us as he said this.

 

Mink: Slender-bodied semi aquatic mammal having partially webbed feet; valued for its fur.

  • The majority of these animals are mink; they were raised on fur factory farms.

 

Mirounga: Elephant seals.

  • Don’t worry if you see a large mirounga swimming or lounging near the docks, they won’t harm you.

 

Mithan: ox of Southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of gaur.

  • In Southeast Asia there’s an animal called mithan, their domesticated in farms.

 

Reptiles that start with the letter M

Mamba: Arboreal snake of central and southern America, whose bite is often fatal.

  • Be careful walking through the high grass and woods there’s mamba’s littering the grounds and they can be lethal.

 

Massasauga: Pygmy rattlesnake found in moist areas from the great lakes to Mexico; feeds on mice and small amphibians.-small pygmy rattlesnake.

  • Massasauga can also be found in Carolina and Georgia.

 

Masticophis: Whip snakes.

  • A masticophis is often recognized by its long thin body, also they are non lethal to humans.

 

Birds that start with the letter M

Macaw: A long tailed brilliantly colored patriot of Central America and South America. It’s among the longest and showiest of Parrots.

  • Miles’ favorite bird is the macaw because of its long and colorful tail.

 

Magpie:  A long-tailed black and white crow that utters a raucous chattering call.

  • Everyday around five Sarah is startled by the raucous call from the magpie that tends to gather in her yard.

 

Mallard: Wild dabbling duck from which domestic ducks are descended from; widely distributed.

  • Sarah is currently doing an essay on the wild non domestic ducks, which is named mallard.

 

Mamo: Black honeycreepers with yellow feathers around the tail; now extinct.

  • There used to be small birds called mamo they are found in Mexico.

 

Manakin: Any numerous small bright-colored birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behaviors.

  • There are many different manakin birds in Central America and South America.

 

Marabou: The downy feathers of marabou storks are used for trimming garments. – Large African black-and-white carrion-eating stork; its downy under wing are used to trim garments.

  • The factory uses marabou to get the process done a lot faster.

 

Insects and Critters that start with the letter M

Mallophaga: Biting lice.

  • You can mostly find Mallophaga on birds, either wild or domestic.

 

Maduca: Moths whose larvae are tobacco hornworms or tomatoes hornworms.

  • The maduca can be house pets for children.

 

Mantid: predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of large regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer.

  • I once saw a mantid lying with its legs raised above him and I thought that it was dead.

 

Mastigoproctus: Giant whip scorpions.

  • Unlike most scorpions a mastigoproctus has no venom glands, so they can’t sting you.

 

Mayfly: Slender insect with delicate memberanous wings having aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days.

  • You can often find mayfly’s near fresh water; also they’re in the dragonfly family.

 

Mealworms: the larva of beetles of the family tenebrionidae.

  • Some people like to eat mealworms because they have high protein content.