Common Names
Common names are listed alphabetically, each followed by its Latin species name.
Acadian hermit crab
Acorn barnacle
African clawed frog
African clawed frog eggs
Alewife
Amber glass snail
American bullfrog
American cockroach
American eel
American hydra
American lobster
Amphipod
- Gammarus duebeni
- Gammarus locusta
- Marinogammarus
- Marinogammarus finmarchicus (now Echinogammarus finmarchicus)
- Marinogammarus obstustus
Anglerfish
Anna's hummingbird
Antarctic cod
Arctic copepod
Atlantic beach hopper
Atlantic cod
Atlantic herring
Atlantic horseshoe crab
Atlantic mackerel
Atlantic rock crab
Atlantic salmon
Atlantic silverside
Atlantic surf clam
Bacteria
Banded euplotes
Banded killifish
Barn Spider
Barndoor skate
Basket star
Beaver
Beet
Bell-shaped vorticella
Beluga whale
Benedict's tubifex
Black rat
Black sea cucumber
Black-footed albatross
Blood fluke
Bloodworm
Blue crab
Blue mussel
Bowhead whale
Brine shrimp
Brittle starfish
Brown algae
Brown rat
Brown ribbon worm
Bull shark
Burrowing crab
Butter clam
Cactus sea squirt
Caddisflies
Capuchin monkey
Caribbean spiny lobster
Cecropia moth
Chanchita
Channel catfish
Chicken
Chilomonas
Ciguatera dinoflagellate
Ciliate
Clearfin livebearer
Clearnose skate
Common bean
Common carp
Common eelgrass
Common giant amoeba
Common limpet
Common periwinkle
Common pillwort
Common slipper shell
Common starfish
Common whelk
Common woodlouse
Copepod
- Acartia hudsonica
- Calanus finmarchicus
- Centropages hamatus
- Metridia longa
- Temora longicornis
- Tortanus discaudatus
Coral weed
Cormorant
Crabs
Crevice spiny lizard
Cricket
Deep-water coralline
Dog whelk
Domestic cat
Domestic cattle
Domestic chicken
Domestic pig
Domestic sheep
Domesticated dog
Dwarf bean
E. coli
Earthworm
Eastern box turtle
Eastern crow
Eastern elliptio
Eastern floater
Eastern mudsnail
- Ilyanassa obsoleta (was Nassarius obsoletus)
- Nassa obsoleta (now Ilyanassa obsoleta)
- Nassarius obsoletus (now Ilyanassa obsoleta)
Eastern oyster
Eastern red-backed salamander
Elegant flatworm
Emerald rockcod
European eel
European green crab
European hake
European lancelet
European lobster
European plaice
European starling
Eyed brown butterfly
False angel wing
Fat innkeeper worm
Fat sand rat
Finback whale
Fish louse
Flamed tigersnail
Flat periwinkle
Flatworm
- Coronadena mutabilis
- Dalyellia
- Discocelis mutabilis
- Euplana gracilis
- Eurylepta maculosa
- Gyratrix hermaphroditus
- Plagiostomum
- Stenostomum
Forbes' sea star
Fresh-water turtle
- Pseudemys scripta elegans (now Trachemys scripta elegans)
- Trachemys scripta elegans (was Pseudemys scripta elegans)
Freshwater algae
Freshwater stingray
Frog
Giant centipede
Golden hamster
Goldfish
Goosefish
Gordian worm
Great spangled fritillary
Great spider crab
Green algae
Green flatworm
Green frog
Green sea urchin
Guinea pig
Gulf toadfish
Haddock
Hagfish
Hairy hermit crab
Harbor seal
Hermit crab
Herring gull
Horn shark
Hornpout
Horse
Horse leech
Horse mussel
Horsehair worm
House cricket
Howler monkey
Human
Hydroid
Inland floodwater mosquito
Japanese pufferfish
Jingle shells
Jonah crab
Katydids
Kelp
King ragworm
Largemouth bass
Laysan albatross
Leach's storm petrel
Leaf flatworm
Lemon shark
Leopard slug
Lichen
Lion's mane jellyfish
Little skate
- Leucoraja erinacea (was Raja erinacea)
- Raia erinacea (now Leucoraja erinacea)
- Raja erinacea (now Leucoraja erinacea)
Longhorn sculpin
Lumpfish
Mangrove oyster
Marbled lungfish
Marbled rock crab
Marine algae
Marine flatworm
- Alonocelis
- Discocelides ellipsoids
- Gnesioceros floridana
- Hoploplana inquilina
- Leptoplana angusta
- Leptoplana ellipsoides
- Leptoplana variabilis
- Prosthiostomum gracile
Marine worm
Medaka
Medicinal leech
Moon jellyfish
Moon snail
Mosquitofish
Moth
Mourning cloak
Mouse
Mudpuppy
Mummichog
Mussel gill ciliate
Myrtle trees
Nine-spine stickleback
Northern moon snail
Northern pike
Northern quahog
Northern sea star
Northern shortfin squid
Northern shrimp
Northernsea robin
Nurse shark
Ocean pout
Opossum shrimp
Oyster flatworm
Oyster leech
Oyster toadfish
Painted turtle
Painted urchin
Parasitic barnacle
Parasitic protozoan
Parmecium
Pea
Pear-shaped difflugia
Periwinkle
Pink shrimp
Plumose anemone
Pollock
Pond scum
Prickly hydroid
Proboscis monkey
Protozoa
Pufferfish
Purple sea urchin
Pyjama shark
Quahog
Quick gloss snail
Rabbit
Rainbow trout
Ray-finned fish
Red algae
Red euglena
Red feather weed
Red junglefowl
Red salamander
Red seaweed
- Antithamnion floccosum (now Antithamnionella floccosa)
- Antithamnionella floccosa (was Antithamnion floccosum)
Red-eared slider
- Pseudemys scripta elegans (now Trachemys scripta elegans)
- Trachemys scripta elegans (was Pseudemys scripta elegans)
Red-faced spider monkey
Ribbon worm
Rock gunnel
Rockweed
Rose fish
Rotifer
Ruby-throated hummingbird
Saltwort
Sand dollar
Sand fiddler crab
Sand shrimp
Scale worm
Scarlet runner bean
Sea anemone
Sea colander
Sea cucumber
Sea grapes
Sea lace
Sea lamprey
Sea peach
Sea potato
Sea raven
Sea scallop
Sea slater
Sea slug
Sea snail
Sea squirt
Sea urchin
Senssile hydrozoan
Sharks
Shore crabs
Shorthorn sculpin
Shrimp
Silkworm
Silver hake
Slender lungfish
Slow loris
Small-spotted catshark
Smallmouth bass
Smooth dogfish
Smooth skate
Snail
Snake
Soft-shell clam
South american lungfish
Spatulate coralline
Speckled flatworm
Spider crab
Spider monkey
Spiny dogfish
Spiny lobster
Spiny vase ciliate
Spoon worm
Spotted salamander
Stimpson's whelk
Striped rockcod
Summer flounder
Swell shark
Ten-ribbed neptune
Thialand cobra
Thornback ray
Thorny skate
Three-branched flatworm
Tiger flatworm
Tiger puffer fish
Tiger salamander
Titi monkey
Toad
Tortoiseshell limpet
Toxic dinoflagellate
Treeline mud snail
Tripod dinoflagellate
Tube hydroid
Tube-dwelling anemone
Turbot
Tusk shell
Various
Vase tunicate
Virginia opossum
Water clover
Water fern
Western honey bee
Wheel animalcules
White admiral butterfly
White flatworm
White hake
White-faced capuchin
White-lip snail
Whitespotted bamboo shark
Whiting
Windowpane flounder
Winter crane fly
Winter flounder
- Pleuronectes americanus (now Pseudopleuronectes americanus)
- Pseudopleuronectes americanus (was Pleuronectes americanus)
Winter skate
Winter toadfish
Witch flounder
Wolffish
Wood frog
Wood nymph butterfly
Woodland mosquito
Woolly monkey
Worms
Yeast
Yellow-collared scape moth
Yellowtail flounder
Zebra flatworm
Zebrafish