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Animals beginning with M

Browse the animals in the encyclopedia whose English names begin with M.

Barbary macaque with yellowish-brown fur sitting on a rock

malayan tiger

Malayan tigerPanthera tigris

manatee

ManateeTrichechus spp.

mandrill

MandrillMandrillus sphinx

Common marmoset with a dark face and white ear tufts

MarmosetCallithrix

marmot

MarmotMarmota spp.

marten

MartenMartes spp.

Silvery horse mackerel with large eyes and a lateral line of bony scutes on ice among other fish

Mediterranean horse mackerelTrachurus mediterraneus

Dark-shelled Mediterranean mussels clustered on an underwater rock

Mediterranean musselMytilus galloprovincialis

meerkat

MeerkatSuricata suricatta

Illustration of a giant megalodon shark with an open, tooth-filled mouth at the sea surface

MegalodonOtodus megalodon

Long, segmented black millipede with many pairs of legs on dry leaves

MillipedeDiplopoda

mink

MinkMustela lutreola (European mink); Neogale vison (American mink)

minke whale

Minke whaleBalaenoptera acutorostrata

mole

molluscs

MolluscsMollusca

Grey, finely spotted mollies swimming among green aquatic plants

MollyPoecilia sphenops

Monarch butterfly with orange wings, black veins and white dots on a purple and white flower

Monarch butterflyDanaus plexippus

Brown Mongolian gerbil with pale underparts sitting upright at a burrow entrance

Mongolian gerbilMeriones unguiculatus

mongoose

MongooseHerpestidae

monkey

Monkeys and apesSimiiformes (monkeys and apes)

moose

MooseAlces alces

Brown moray eel with round yellowish spots poking its head out of a reef crevice

Moray eelMuraenidae

mosquito

MosquitoCulicidae

moth

MothLepidoptera (moths from several families)

mouflon

MouflonOvis gmelinii complex; European mouflon naming varies between taxonomic treatments

mouse

MouseMus spp.; Mus musculus is the house mouse

Male muskox with long shaggy hair and heavy horns in Dovrefjell, Norway

MuskoxOvibos moschatus