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Animals beginning with S

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

salamander

SalamanderCaudata (also called Urodela)

sawfish

SawfishPristidae

Scolopendra cingulata with a yellow-brown segmented body, yellow legs and reddish antennae

Scolopendra centipedeScolopendra

scorpion

ScorpionScorpiones

sea lion

Sea lionOtariidae (sea lions; family also includes fur seals)

Sea otter with thick brown fur and a pale head floating on its back in the water

Sea otterEnhydra lutris

sea urchin

Sea urchinEchinoidea

seahorse

SeahorseHippocampus

seal

Serval with large rounded ears and a yellowish coat covered in black spots

ServalLeptailurus serval

shark

SharkSelachimorpha (sharks within Chondrichthyes)

siberian tiger

Siberian tigerPanthera tigris

White, soft, ringed silkworms on green mulberry leaves

SilkwormBombyx mori

skunk

SkunkMephitidae

sloth

Glossy copper-brown legless slow worm coiled on a rock

Slow wormAnguis fragilis

Spotted Limax maximus with extended tentacles on moss

SlugGastropoda — terrestrial slugs

Fossil Smilodon skull with two very long, curved upper canines

Smilodon (saber-toothed cat)Smilodon

Smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris) on damp ground

Smooth newtLissotriton vulgaris

Grey-brown smooth snake coiled on dry leaves and pine needles

Smooth snakeCoronella austriaca

snail

SnailGastropoda

snake

AI illustration of a snow leopard with dark rosettes and a bushy tail

Snow leopardPanthera uncia

White snowy owl with black flecks and yellow eyes perched on a branch

Snowy owlBubo scandiacus

south china tiger

South China tigerPanthera tigris

Yellow platy with red tones, a red head and black-edged fins on a dark background

Southern platyfishXiphophorus maculatus

sparrow

SparrowPasser domesticus (house sparrow); other sparrow species are also discussed

sperm whale

Sperm whalePhyseter macrocephalus

European garden spider, Araneus diadematus, viewed from above on its web, showing white abdominal spots and eight walking legs

squirrel

SquirrelSciuridae (squirrels)

starfish

StarfishAsteroidea

Long, thin brown stick insect with twig-like legs among fern leaves

Stick insectPhasmatodea

stingray

StingrayMyliobatiformes; Dasyatidae includes whiptail stingrays

Stoat (Mustela erminea) with a black tail tip among vegetation

StoatMustela erminea

Sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus), a sturgeon with a pointed snout and bony scutes

SturgeonAcipenseridae

Small grey sugar glider with a black head stripe and large eyes on a branch at night

Sugar gliderPetaurus breviceps

sumatran tiger

Sumatran tigerPanthera tigris

swallow

SwallowHirundinidae; Hirundo rustica is the barn swallow

swan

SwanCygnus spp.

swift fox

Swift foxVulpes velox

swordfish

SwordfishXiphias gladius