I'm dangerously bad at resisting these kinds of prompts. Guess I'm staying up another 10-20 minutes! Marsupial - thylacine / greater glider (extant favorite) Elephant - Asian (Sri Lankan specifically!) Non-Elephant Afrotherian - aardvark Xenarthan - giant anteater Primates - aye-aye, red ruffed lemur, mandrill, orangutan Lagomorph - Sumatran striped rabbit Rodents - capybara, Patagonian mara, Hystrix porcupines, red-and-white giant flying squirrel Bats - Rodrigues & spectacled flying foxes Felids - leopard, cougar, African golden cat, Eurasian lynx, domestic cat (aaand my biases reveal themselves) Hyena - ... all of them I can't even choose Other Feliforms - African civet, Asian palm civet, binturong, fossa Canids - dhole, maned wolf, bush dog, raccoon dog Bear - Asian black Pinniped - leopard seal Mustelids - Asian/Japanese badgers, Japanese marten, tayra Rhinos - Indian & Sumatran Tapir - Malayan Equids - Grevy's & mountain zebras Deer - all Cervus deer, roe deer, muntjacs, pudu Cattle - wild yak, wild water buffalo Antelope - (the hardest choices yet) elands, bongo, sable, Tibetan/chiru, saiga, red lechwe, zebra duiker, someone please stop me now Caprine - Japanese serow, takin, wild/Bezoar goat Pig - red river hog Cetaceans - vaquita, Dall's porpoise, Amazon river dolphin Other Mammals That Don't Fit In Any Of These - OKAPI. And all of the pangolins. I'll uh... do the non-mammals another time.
At the moment, Zoochatters' favourite animals are: Antelope: Bongo Ape: Orang-utan; Sumatran orang-utan Bears: Asiatic black, spectacled, sun Big cat: Snow leopard Bird of prey: Steller's sea eagle Cracid: Horned guan Crocodilian: Gharial Dog: Dhole Elephant: Asian Equids: Mountain zebra Flamingo: James' Hornbill: Great Indian, writhed Lemur: Red ruffed Lizard: Komodo dragon Marsupial: Numbat Monkey: Lion-tailed macaque, mandrill, proboscis monkey Non-elephant afrotherian: Aardvark Parrot: Hyacinth macaw Pheasant: Bulwer's wattled Pinniped: Leopard seal Rhinoceros: Indian Rodent: Capybara Sheep/goat: Takin Small cat: Caracal, cougar, Pallas's cat, serval Stork: Marbou Tapir: Malayan Whale: Amazon river dolphin
I had a list just like this in my phone's notes but I deleted it only recently, argh! I'll try and revise it then with the groups of animals I still have a note of (very condensed, some of the groupings are based on arbitrary groups from an old textbook) Apes: Mountain Gorilla (Sumatran Orangutan a VERY close runner-up) Bat: Indian Flying Fox Bear: Brown Bear (European) Big Cat: Bengal Tiger Canine: Coyote Cattle and Relatives (Bovids): Wisent Cetaceans: Common Dolphin Civets and Mongooses: Binturong Deer: Red Deer Elephants: African Bush Giraffes and Camels: Reticulated Giraffe Hippos and Pigs: Common Hippo Horses: Plains Zebra Hyenas: Spotted Hyena Insectivores ( Eulipotyphla): Western Hedgehog: Marsupials and Monotremes: Koala Monkeys: Olive Baboon Mustelids: European Badger 'Other' Carnivores: Red Panda 'Other' Mammals: West Indian Manatee Pinnipeds: Californian Sea Lion Prosimians: Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur Rabbits and Rodents: Brown Rat/Brown Hare Rhinos and Tapirs: Indian One-horned Rhinoceros Small Cats: Scottish Wildcat Xenarthrans: Giant Anteater Birds of Prey: Common Buzzard Cranes and Storks: Red-crowned Crane Cuckoos and Turacos: Greater Roadrunner Flamingos and Pelicans: Grey Heron Flightless Birds (Ratites): Southern Cassowary Gamebirds: Common Pheasant Hornbills and Kingfishers: Yellow-billed Hornbill Owls: European Eagle Owl Parrots and Pigeons: Hyacinth Macaw Passerines: Common Raven Penguins: Emperor Penguin Seabirds (Waders, Gulls, Auks): Eurasian Stone Curlew Toucans and Woodpeckers: Toco Toucan Waterbirds: Red-throated Diver Colubrids: Grass Snake Constrictor Snakes: Reticulated Python Crocodilians: Nile Crocodile Geckos: Leopard Gecko Iguanas and Relatives: Bearded Dragon Monitor Lizards: Nile Monitor Other Lizards: Argentinian Tegu Tortoises and Turtles: Green Sea Turtle Venomous Snakes: Egyptian Cobra Amphibians, Fish, and Invertebrates aren't really my thing, but I'm sure I could come up with something for them as well
Wish I could go back and edit, with mammals alone there are so many I'd already forgotten! Red panda, forest buffalo, serval, numbat, giant otter shrew... ugh. Anyway, birds and reptiles. Admittedly way more of a mammal person if that's not immediately evident. Ratite - southern cassowary, kiwis Galliformes - green peafowl, Congo peafowl, Japanese green pheasant Waterfowl - mandarin duck Pigeon - Victoria crowned Crane - blue Penguins - king, African, rockhopper Stork - marabou Pelecaniformes - shoebill, roseate spoonbill, crested ibis, Madagascar ibis Raptors - king vulture, cinereous vulture, bearded vulture, harpy eagle, secretarybird Owls - great horned, long-eared Turaco - Fischer's or green-crested Hornbills - helmeted, knobbed Parrots - sun conure, horned parakeet, Major Mitchell's cockatoo, kakapo Passerines - superb lyrebird, blue bird-of-paradise, common raven, plush-crested jay, helmet vanga Others - hoatzin, kagu, sunbittern, all bustards, tawny frogmouth Crocodilians - saltie, Chinese alligator, black caiman turtles - alligator snapper, painted batagur, pig-nosed, leatherback Lizards - Philippine sailfin, Fiji iguanas, Cayman blue iguana, frilled lizard, shingleback, Komodo, sungazer, red-eyed crocodile skink Snakes - albino Burmese python, reticulated python, emerald tree boa & green tree python, bush vipers, white-lipped island pit viper, Gaboon viper, cape cobra Amphibians, fish and inverts some other time to keep the post short(ish).
Part 2 (Misssed mammals, birds and herps) Afrotheria - Black and rufous elephant shrew Xenarthea - Hairy armadillo Pangolin - Chinese Cetacean - Harbour porpoise Insectivore - West European hedgehog Bird Of Prey - Himalayan griffon vulture Stork - Shoebill Pigeon - Pheasant pigeon Hornbill - Great Indian Parrot - Kea Crane - Stanley/blue Ibis - Sacred Sea bird - Atlantic puffin Corvid - Red-billed chough Songbird - 12-wired bird of paradise Ratite - Brown kiwi Waterfowl - Spectacled eider Pheasant - Bornean peacock Toucan - Green aracari Snake - Boelen's python Snake (hot) - Monocled cobra Lizard - Water monitor Crocodilian - Chinese alligator Tortoise - Radiated Turtle - Roti Island snake-necked Frog/Toad - Mountain chicken Other Amphibian - Chinese giant salamander Shark/Ray - Whale shark Bony fish - Ocean sunfish I'm not an invert' man so I've left them off.
When I posted here, I just caught the already mentioned categories and filled with my own fave of each group. But reading the other's lists, I see that is a strong disagreement bewteen categories: for example one puts "reptile" and other "crocodilian, lizard, snake", for ones is "cat" and other divide between big and small cats, ones are OK with "whale" for all cetaceans and other divide the group in two categories, whales and dolphins... From my post forward, I see that the tendence is to make more exhaustive and precise categories, basically mammal categories. So I change my previous list for next one, putting my favourite of each family (under my taxonomical consideration of each one), so the categories can be seen in a much more accurate way than previously: MAMMALS: Aardvark: Aardvark Acrobat: Feather-tailed possum African/Malgasy rat: Malgasy giant jumping rat Agouti/paca: Mountain paca American porcupine: Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine Anteater: Northern tamandua Antelope/cattle/goat: Saola Ape: Hoolock gibbon Armadillo: Pink fairy Aye-aye: Aye-aye Bandicoot: Greater bilby Beaked whale: Bottlehead Bear: Sloth Beaver: European Bumblebee bat: Bumblebee bat Bushbaby: Elegant galago Camel: Llama Cane rat: Greater Cat: Marbled Cavy/chinchilla: Plains viscacha Chinchilla rat: Bennett's Deer: Musk Degu: Cururo Disc-winged bat: Spix's Dog: Tibetan fox Dolphin: Southern right whale dolphin Dormouse: Woodland Dugong: Dugong Echidna: Sir David's long-beaked Elephant: African forest Elephant shrew: Four-toed False vampire: Yellow-winged bat Flying fox: Hammerhead bat Flying lemur: Philippine Free-tailed bat: Chapin's Funnel-eared bat: Mexican Ganges dolphin: Ganges dolphin Giraffe: Okapi Glider: Striped possum Golden mole: Grant's Gopher: Botta's pocket gopher Grey whale: Grey whale Gundi: Speke's Hamster/vole/lemming/New World rat: European hamster Hedgehog: Desert Hippopotamus: Pygmy Honey possum: Honey possum Horse: Mountain zebra Horseshoe/Old World leaf-nosed bat: Rufous horseshoe bat Hutia: Jamaican coney Hyena: Striped Hyrax: Southern tree dassie Jerboa: Long-eared Kangaroo: Banded hare-wallaby Kangaroo rat/pocket mouse: Spiny pocket mouse Lemur: either Fork-crowned or Coquerel's sifaka Loris: Angwantibo Manatee: African Marsupial mole: Marsupial mole Mastiff bat: Greater bulldog bat Mole: Japanese shrew mole Mole rat: Damaraland Mongoose/civet: Owston's palm civet Monito-del-monte: Monito-del-monte Mountain beaver: Mountain beaver Mouse deer: Water chevrotain Mouse-tailed bat: Greater Moustached bat: Antillean ghost-faced bat Muroid mole rat: Big-headed mole rat Narwhal/beluga: Narwhal New World leaf-nosed bat: Honduran white bat New World monkey: Red-backed bearded saki New Zealand short-tailed bat: Lesser short-tailed bat Old Wolrd monkey: Golden snub-nosed Opossum: Four-eyed Pacarana: Pacarana Pangolin: Giant Pen-tailed tree shrew: Pen-tailed tree shrew Pig/peccary: Giant forest hog Pika: Ili Platypus: Platypus Porcupine: Long-tailed Porpoise: Vaquita or Dall's, not sure which one wins Pronghorn: Pronghorn Pygmy possum: Mountain Pygmy right whale: Pygmy right whale Quoll/devil/kowari: Numbat Rabbit: Annamese striped Raccoon: Mountain coati Red panda: Red panda Rhinoceros: Sumatran Right whale: Bowhead whale Ringtail/greater gliding possum: Herbert River ringtail possum River dolphin: La Plata Rorqual: Humpback whale Sac-winged bat: Northern ghost bat Scaly-tailed squirrel: Pel's flying squirrel Sea lion: Australian Seal: Ribbon Shrew: Piebald Shrew opossum: Chilean Skunk: Eastern spotted Slit-faced bat: Cape long-eared bat Sloth: Brown-throated Smoky/thumbless bat: Thumbless bat Solenodon: Cuban Sperm whale: Pygmy sperm whale (either species) Spiny rat/coypu: Armored rat Springhare: Springhare Squirrel: Indian giant Sucker-footed bat: Eastern Tapir: Mountain Tarsier: Horsfield's Tenrec: Lesser long-tailed shrew tenrec Titi/tamarin/marmoset: Silvery marmoset Tree shrew: Madras Typical mouse/rat: Maned rat Vesper bat: Pied bat Walrus: Walrus Weasel/otter: Marbled polecat Wombat: Northern hairy-nosed BIRDS: Accentor: Rufous-breasted Albatross: Galapagos Antbird/antpitta: Giant antshrike Asity: Yellow-bellied sunbird-asity Auk: Rhinoceros auklet Australasian treecreeper: Red-browed treecreeper Avocet/stilt: New Zealand stilt Babbler/laughing trush: Fire-tailed myzornis Barbet: Nacked-faced Barn owl: Congo bay owl Bee-eater: Purple-bearded Bird of paradise: Black sicklebill Booby/gannet: Blue-footed booby Bowerbird: Flame Broadbill: Silver-breasted Bulbul: Tylas vanga Bunting: Lapland longspur Bushtit: Black-throated Bustard: Lesser florican Buttonquail: Quail-plover Cardinal: Ultramarine grosbeak Cassowary: Single-wattled Cockatoo: Yellow-tailed black Condor: Greater yellow-headed vulture Cormorant: Flightless Cotinga: Bare-necked fruitcrow Crab plover: Crab plover Crane: Whooping Crow/jay/magpie: Ratchet-tailed treepie Cuckoo: Sumatran ground Cuckoo-roller: Cuckoo-roller Cuckoo-shrike: Orange minivet Darter: Australian Dipper: White-capped Diving petrel: Common Drongo: Balicassiao Emu: Emu Fairy wren/thornbill: Purple-crowned fairy wren Falcon/caracara: Mauritius kestrel Fantail: New Zealand Finch: Black-headed canary Finfoot: Masked Flamingo: James's Flowerpecker: Spotted pardalote Frigatebird: Lesser Frogmouth: Ocellated Gnatcatcher: Collared gnatwren Gnateater: Black-cheeked Grebe: Titicaca Ground roller: Long-tailed Grouse: Greater sage Guan/curassow: Horned guan Guineafowl: Black Gull: Lava Hammerkop: Hammerkop Hawayan honeycreeper: 'Akohekohe Heron: Pileated Hoatzin: Hoatzin Honeycreeper: Cape sugarbird Honeyguide: Lyre-tailed Hoopoe: African Hornbill: Helmeted Hornero: Lark-like brushrunner Hummingbird: Marvelous spatuletail Ibisbill: Ibisbill Jacana: Pheasant-tailed Kagu: Kagu Kingfisher: Shovel-billed Kiwi: Lesser spotted Lark: Thick-billed Leafbird/verdin/fairy bluebird: Philippine fairy bluebird Limpkin: Limpkin Logrunner: Cinnamon quail-thrush Loon: Adam's Lorikeet: Blue Lyrebird: Albert's Mannakin: Araripe Megapode: Malleefowl Mesite: Subdesert Mockingbird: Galapagos Monarch/magpie lark: Celestial monarch Motmot: Broad-billed Mousebird: White-headed New World quail: Montezuma's quail New World warbler: Red warbler Nightjar: Lyre-tailed Nuthatch/wallcreeper: Blue nuthatch Oilbird: Oilbird Old World flycatcher: Clicking shieldbill Old World warbler: White-browed tit warbler Oriole: Maroon Osprey: Osprey Ostrich: Ostrich Owl: Long-whiskered owlet Owlet-nightjar: Australian Oystercatcher: Sooty Painted snipe: Common Palmchat: Palmchat Parrot: Spix's macaw Parrotbill: Black-throated Pelican: American white Penduline tit: Fire-capped tit Penguin: Yellow-eyed Petrel/shearwater: Fairy prion Pheasant/partridge: Bulwer's pheasant Philippine creeper: Stripe-headed creeper Pigeon: Cloven-feathered Pitta: Garnet Plains wanderer: Plains wanderer Plover: Wrybill Plushcap: Plushcap Potoo: Rufous Pratincole/courser: Australian pratincole Puffbird: Swallow-winged Rail/coot/moorhen/swamphen: Watercock Raptor: Black and white hawk-eagle Rhea: Lesser Rifleman: Rifleman Rockfowl: Grey-necked Roller: Racquet-tailed Sandgrouse: Four-banded Sandpiper and allies: American curlew Screamer: Horned Scrub-bird: Noisy Secretarybird: Secretarybird Seedsnipe: Chestnut-bellied Seriema: Black-legged Sheatbill: Black-faced Shoebill: Shoebill Shrike: Bornean bristlehead Skimmer: African Skua/jaeger: Long-tailed jaeger Starling: White-collared Stork: Black-necked Storm petrel: Gray-backed Sunbird: Golden-winged Sunbittern: Sunbittern Swallow: White-eyed river martin Swallow tanager: Swallow tanager Swift: Glossy swiftlet Tanager: Magpie tanager Tapaculo: Chucao Tern: Large-billed Thick-knee: Great Thrush/chat: Grandala Tinamou: Dwarf Tit: Varied Tody: Jamaican Toucan: Green-billed Tourpial/oropendola/cowbird: Red-bellied grackle Tree swift: Grey-rumped Treecreeper: Spotted Trogon/quetzal: Violaceous trogon Tropicbird: Red-tailed Trumpeter: White-winged Turaco: Bare-faced go-away bird Turkey: Ocellated Tyrant flycatcher: Cock-tailed Vanga: Blue Vireo: Rufous-browed peppershrike Wagtail/pipit: Forest wagtail Waterfowl: Musk duck Wattle-eye: Chinspot batis Wattled crow: Saddleback Waxbill: Violet-eared Waxwing/silky flycatcher: Hypocolius Weaver/sparrow: Long-tailed widowbird Whistler: Crested shrike-tit White-eye: Bonin Wood hoopoe: White-headed Woodcreeper: Long-billed Woodpecker: Okinawa Woodswallow/butcherbird/currawong: Pied butcherbird Wren: Zapata Will work on ectotherms other day, as now I must go to work.
For ectotherms, I realized that is a too hard work to use family level for categories, both for me as for readers, many families lack a standarized common name, and for many I can't have a favourite species as many are poorly known to me and/or all plain-looking. So from this point I will choose Order as the category: Crocodile/alligator: Cuban crocodile Lizard/snake: Indian fan-throated lizard Tuatara: Brothers Islands's Turtle/tortoise: Painted terrapin Caecilian: Ko Tao island Frog/toad: Corroboree frog Salamander/newt: Hellbender Anglerfish: Wolftrap angler Lasiognathus saccostoma Beardfish: Stout Bichir: Mokele-mbembe Bonytongue: African arowana Bowfin: Bowfin Carp/loach: Giant barb Catfish: Striped eel catfish Clingfish: Urchin clingfish Cod: Giant grenadier Coelacanth: Indonesian Cusk eel/brotula: Pinhead pearlfish Dory: Deepbody boarfish Dragonfish/bristlemouth: Sloane viperfish Eel: Slender snipe eel Flatfish: Cockatoo flounder Gar: Tropical Gulper eel: Pelican gulper eel Herring: Amazon hatchet herring Jellynose fish: Highfin tadpole fish Lamprid: Scalloped ribbonfish Lizardfish: Long-snouted lancetfish Lungfish: Marbled Milkfish: Beaked salmon Mullet: Yellowtail Needlefish: Spotfin flying fish Perchlike: Indopacific sailfish Pike: Central mudminnow Puffer/filefish: Slender sunfish Ridgehead: Ragged bigscale Salmon: Luminous lanternfish Sawbelly: Common fangtooth Scorpionfish: Ocellated waspfish Seahorse/stickleback: Harlequin ghost pipefish Silverside: Delicate blue-eye Smelt: Barreleye South American knifefish/electric eel: Tamandua knifefish Spiny eel: Gilbert's halosaurid Sturgeon/paddlefish: Chinese paddlefish Swamp eel: Rice swamp eel Tarpon/ladyfish: Bonefish Toadfish: Splendid Toothcarp: Blackfin pearlfish Trout-perch: Southern cavefish Angelshark: Japanese Bullhead shark: Zebra bullhead shark Carpet shark: Whale shark Chimera: Elephantfish Cow shark: Bluntnose sixgill shark Dogfish shark: Greenland shark Electric ray: Ocellated Ground shark: Winghead shark Mackerel shark: Goblin shark Ray: Giant freshwater stingray (but others are just equal favourite) Sawfish: Japanese sawshark Hagfish: Atlantic Lamprey: Pouched Invertebrates will follow some day....
I was going to post a few, listing only species I've seen, which would limit me a lot, eg only cetacean ever seen in a zoo is bottle nosed dolphin , no Sumatran Rhino , mountain Tapir , brown hyaena ever seen. Mine would be a much shorter & less interesting list than those that give other species I haven’t seen such as Saola and Leopard Seal, so I don't think I'll bother!
I've just gone through my two posts and I've seen 44 (45 if we go to species level for (Javan) leopard). And I don't think any of mine are ridiculously obscure. In fact one (tree kangaroo) is much more likely to go on my "seen" list now than it was a week or so ago... So go for it @pipaluk .
Ok, going by Dassie Rat's categories and only animals I've seen : Antelope -Blesbok, Blue Duiker Ape - Bonobo Bear - Polar Big Cat - Snow Leopard Bird of Prey - Crested Caracara Crocodilian - Gharial Dog - Dhole Elephant - Asian Equid - Somali Wild Ass Flamingo - James' Hornbill - Northern Ground Lemur - Sifaka Lizard - Blue Tree Monitor Marsupial - Wombat, Tree Kangaroo Monkey - Crowned Guenon Parrot - Hyacinth Macaw Pheasant - Pinniped - Cape Fur Seal Rhino - Indian Rodent - Brazilian Porcupine Sheep/goat - Golden Takin Small cat Asian Golden Cat Tapir - Malayan Stork - Lesser Adjutant Hippo - Common Cattle - European Bison Mustelid - Ratel Mongoose - Dwarf Civet - Binturong Malagasy carnivore - Ring-tailed mongoose My favourite reptile , Tuatara and one of my favourite mammals, Okapi , have nothing to compete against !
Aplousobranch sea squirt: Cat eye (Clavelina robusta) Enterogone sea squirt: (Ascidia mentula) Phlebobranch sea squirt: Predatory tunicate (Megalodicopia hians) Pleurogone sea squirt: (Botrylloides anceps) Doliolid: (Doliolum denticulatum) Pyrosomid: Fire roller (Pyrosoma atlanticum) Salp: (Salpa maxima) Brisingid: Velcro sea star (Novodinia antillensis) Forcipulatid: Antarctic sun starfish (Labidiaster annulatus) Notomyotid: (Cheiraster echinulatus) Paxillosid: Royal starfish (Astropecten articulatus) Spinulosid: Mosaic sea star (Plectaster decanus) Valvatid: Icon star (Iconaster longimanus) Velatid: Striking sea star (Euretaster insignis) Feather star: Bennet's feather star (Oxycomanthus bennetti) Sea lily: (Monachocrinus caribbeus) Short-stalked sea lily: (Holopus rangii) Whorled sea lily: (Neocrinus decorus) Arbacioid urchin: Exquisite urchin (Coleopleurus exquisitus) Cassiduloid urchin: (Cassidulus caribaearum) Cidaroid urchin: (Goniocidaris clypeata) Clypeasteroid urchin: (Rotula deciesdigitata) Diadematoid urchin: Banded urchin (Echinothrix calamaris) Echinoid urchin: Helmet urchin (Colobocentrotus atratus) Echinoneoid urchin: Little burrowing urchin (Echinoneus cyclostomus) Echinothurioid urchin: (Phormosoma placenta) Holasteroid urchin: (Stereopneustes relictus) Pedinoid urchin: (Caenopedina hawaiiensis) Phymosomatoid urchin: (Glyptocidaris crenularis) Spatangoid urchin: Elongate heart urchin (Lovenia elongata) Stomopneustoid urchin: Black urchin (Stomopneustes variolaris) Temnopleuroid urchin: Bald-patch urchin (Microcyphus rousseaui) Apodid cucumber: Sticky snake sea cucumber (Euapta godeffroyi) Aspidochirotid cucumber: Prickly redfish (Thelenota ananas) Dendrochirotid cucumber: Sea gherkin (Eupentacta quinquesemita) Elasipodid cucumber: Sea pig (Scotoplanes globosa) Molpadiid cucumber: See-through sea cucumber (Paracaudina australis) Basket star: (Astrobrachion constrictum), especially in the zebra-form Brittle star: Pied brittle star (Ophiocoma pica) Camel spider: (Metasolpuga picta) Feather mite: Osprey wing mite (Pandionacarus fuscus) Harvestman: (Sadocus polyacanthus) Hooded tick-spider: (Cryptocellus goodnighti) Mesostigmate mite: Varroa mite (Varroa destructor) Microwhip scorpion: (Eukoenenia spelaea) Moss mite: (Damaeus onustus) Pseudoscorpion: (Titanobochica magna) Scorpion: Blind scorpion (Belisarius xambeui) Spider: Ladybug spider (Paraplectana coccinella) Tick: Bat tick (Argas vespertilionis) Trombidiiform mite: Giant red velvet mite (Trombidium grandissimum) Vinegaroon: (Hubbardia pentapeltis) Whip spider: Giant tailless whip scorpion (Euphrynichus amanica) Bark centipede: Flag-legged centipede (Alipes grandidieri) House centipede: (Sphendononema guildingii) Soil centipede: Luminous centipede (Geophilus electricus) Stone centipede: (Eupolybothrus fasciatus) Amphipod: Giant Lake Baikal amphipod (Acanthogammarus victori) Barnacle: (Conchoderma virgatum) Clam shrimp: California clam shrimp (Cyzicus californicus) Copepod: (Gaussia princeps) Crab/shrimp: Lollipop crab (Ixa cylindrus) Fairy shrimp: Giant fairy shrimp (Branchinecta gigas) Fish louse: (Argulus foliaceus) Hooded shrimp: (Bodotria scorpioides) Krill: Northern krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica) Leptostracan: (Nebalia bipes) Mantis shrimp: Keeled witch mantis shrimp (Hemisquilla ensigera) Opossum shrimp: (Gnathophausia zoea) Ostracod: Pacific giant ostracod (Gigantocypris agassizii) Tadpole shrimp: Arctic tadpole shrimp (Lepidurus arcticus) Tanaid: (Leptochelia longimana) Water flea: (Ceriodaphnia laticaudata) Woodlouse: Giant isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) Bristly millipede: (Phryssonotus brevicapensis) Chordeumatid millipede: (Plectogona angustum) Flatback millipede: Pink dragon millipede (Desmoxytes purpurosea) Giant pill millipede: (Sphaerotherium hippocastaneum) Glomerid pill millipede: White pill millipede (Trachysphaera lobata) Julid millipede: (Julus terrestris) Spirobolid millipede: Bifid red millipede (Centrobolus bifidus) Spirostreptid millipede: Giant Texas brown millipede (Orthoporus ornatus) Bark louse: (Cerastipsocus trifasciatus) Beetle: Feather-horned beetle (Rhipicera femorata) Bristletail: Shore bristletail (Petrobius maritimus) Bug/cicada: Picasso bug (Sphaerocoris annulus) Butterfly/moth: (Semioptila spathulipennis) Caddishfly: (Nectopsyche utleyorum) Diplure: (Gollumjapyx smeagol) Dragonfly/damselfly: Clearspot bluewing (Zenithoptera viola) Earwig: (Arixenia esau) Flea: Jigger (Tunga penetrans) Fly: Malaysian stalk-eyed fly (Teleopsis dalmanni) Grasshopper/cricket: Australian crested katydid (Alectoria superba) Lacewing: (Palmipenna aeoleoptera) Louse: Elephant louse (Haematomyzus elephantis) Mantid/cockroach/termite: Blister beetle mimic cockroach (Melyroidea magnifica) Mayfly: Tisa mayfly (Palingenia longicauda) Rock crawler: Northern rock crawler (Grylloblatta campodeiformis) Scorpionfly: Earwigfly (Merope tuber) Silverfish: (Squamatinia algharbica) Springtail: New Zealand giant sprintail (Holacanthella duospinosa) Stick insect: Lord Howe stick insect (Dryococelus australis) Stonefly: (Hemimelaena flaviventris) Strepsipteran: (Stylops melittae) Thrips: (Frankliniothrips vespiformis) Wasp/bee/ant: (Pelecinus polyturator) Webspinner: (Embia amadorae) Zorapteran: (Zorotypus guineeensis) Horseshoe crab: Chinese horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) Sea spider: (Stylopallene longicauda) Pseudocentipede: (Hanseniella caldaria) Sorry for molluscs, segmented worms, cnidarians and so, but I will let it here, searching each order for each favourite species is too tiring (and probably reading it too).
I understand "my favourite" as the most wished one on each category, hence, most of my elections are species that I didnt't saw and probably I will never see. However, as various Zoochatters here are putting their lists based only in the species that they have seen, I will do the same resulting in a completely different list. Following the last DassieRat categories, they will be: Antelope: Gerenuk Ape: Bonobo Bear: Spectacled Big cat: Clouded leopard Bird of prey: Harpy eagle Cracid: Helmeted curassow Crocodilian: Gharial Dog: Bat-eared fox Elephant: Asian Equids: African wild ass Flamingo: James' Hornbill: Sulawesi Lemur: Greater bamboo Lizard: New Guinea snake lizard Marsupial: Goodfellow's tree kangaroo Monkey: Red-shanked douc langur Non-elephant afrotherian: Yellow-breasted hyrax Parrot: Lear's macaw Pheasant: Himalayan monal Pinniped: Steller's sea lion Rhinoceros: White Rodent: North Luzon giant cloud rat Sheep/goat: Rocky Mountain goat Small cat: Oncilla Stork: African openbill Tapir: Baird's Whale: Orca
I have combined a few groups, mainly using criteria adopted by earlier listers. I have also added some new groups of classes or phyla. I have included the okapi in a camel and giraffe etc group and the tuatara with the chelonians. So far, the leading species in some groups are: Antelope: Bongo Ape: Sumatran orang-utan Arachnid: Vinegaroon Bear: Spectacled Big cat: Snow leopard Bird of prey: Steller's sea eagle, harpy, secretary bird Camels, giraffes etc: Okapi Cattle: Wisent Cracid: Horned guan Cranes, storks etc: Shoebill, marabou Crocodilian: Gharial Deer: Musk deer Dog: Dhole Dolphin: Southern right whale dolphin Elephant: Asian Equid: Mountain zebra Fish: Whale shark Flamingo: James's Flightless bird: Southern cassowary Hornbills & kingfishers: Great Indian hornbill; helmeted hornbill Insectivores: West European hedgehog Lemur: Red ruffed lemur; aye-aye Lizard: Komodo dragon Marsupial: Numbat Monkey: Mandrill; lion-tailed macaque; proboscis monkey Non-elephant afrotherian: Aardvark Other birds: Hoatzin Parrots: Hyacinth macaw Pheasant etc: Bulwer's wattled pheasant Pigs & hippos: Common hippo Pigeon: Victoria crowned; cloven-feathered Pinniped: Baikal Seal; Californian Sealion; leopard seal; Ribbon seal; walrus Procyonid etc: Red panda Prosimian: Angwantibo Rhinoceros: Indian Rodent: Capybara Sheep/goat: Takin Small cat: Serval; Pallas’s cat; Asian Golden Cat; caracal; cougar; marbled cat Snake: Reticulated python Songbird: Common raven; grey-necked rockfowl Tapir: Malayan Viverrid: Binturong Waterfowl: Spectacled eider; musk duck Whale: Orca; vaquita, Dall's porpoise, Amazon river dolphin Xenarthran: Giant anteater
Here I go. Part 1: Monotremes and Marsupials Monotreme: Platypus Carnivorous marsupial: Numbat, Tasmanian devil, tiger quoll New World marsupial: Monito del monte Bandicoot or marsupial mole: Greater bilby Kangaroo or wallaby: Quokka Tree kangaroo: Matschie's Koala: Koala Wombat: Northern hairy-nosed Cuscus: Common spotted Glider: Mahogany Pygmy possum: Mountain pygmy Possum: Leadbeater's Part 2 (lesser-known mammal orders) will come soon. -TheWalrus
Gonna finish this up. Frogs - goliath, Asian horned, waxy monkey, Cranwell's horned, all flying frogs Salamanders - all giant salamanders, axolotl, olm, mudpuppy Not too many fish and inverts, and I'm not as good with their classification anyway, so... Bony Fish - arapaima, Asian arowana, paddlefish, alligator gar, ocean sunfish, giant oarfish, lancetfish Sharks - frilled, whale, sand tiger Ray - giant manta Lobe-finned Fish - coelacanth Lepidopteran - atlas and Hercules moths Beetle - Hercules Fly - bee fly Hemipteran - lanternfly Mantid - orchid Arachnid - peacock jumping spider Crustaceans - coconut crab, Japanese spider crab, yeti crab, peacock mantis shrimp Favorite Arthropod in General - horseshoe crabs Cephalopods - chambered nautilus, giant squid Nudibranch - Glaucus atlanticus Gastropod - banana slug Bivalve - giant clam Cnidarians - moon jelly, lion's mane jellyfish Props to Dassie keeping tabs, the results are interesting! I don't know if I'll go more in depth like others are or not.
What species do you mean by "grass snake"? There are countless species who are commonly referred to as simply a "grass snake".
I didn't have any particular species in mind, but I should have made them plural in that case. I think 'grass snake' on its own usually means Natrix natrix, although I didn't list any grass snake so I'm not sure why I was quoted there.
