Animals Start with S: 70+ Animal List, Definition & Example

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom of Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, can move, can reproduce sexually, and go through an onto genetic stage in which their body consists of a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development. (Animals start with S)

Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but we have estimated there are over 7 million animal species in total.

In this article, we will list down some animals start with S.

Animals Start with S

Sr. No.	Animals	Definitions
1	Saarloos Wolfdog	The Saarloos Wolfdog is a wolf-dog breed originating from the Netherlands by the crossing of a German Shepherd with a Siberian grey wolf in 1935.
2	Saiga	The saiga antelope, or saiga, is a critically endangered antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains.
3	Saint Bernard	The Saint Bernard or St. Bernard is a breed of very large working dog from the Western Alps in Italy and Switzerland.
4	Salamander	Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by their lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body.
5	Salmon	Salmo is a genus of ray-finned fish from the family Salmonidae, which includes all European species of salmon and trout, among them the familiar Atlantic salmon and the brown trout.
6	Samoyed	The Samoyed is a breed of medium-sized herding dogs with thick, white, double-layer coats.
7	Sand Lizard	The sand lizard is a lacertid lizard distributed across most of Europe from France and across the continent to Lake Baikal in Russia.
8	Saola	The saola, also called spindlehorn, Asian unicorn, or infrequently, Vu Quang bovid, is one of the world’s rarest large mammals, a forest-dwelling bovine native to the Annamite Range in Vietnam and Laos.
9	Sardines	Sardines “Sardine” and “pilchard” are common names for various small, oily forage fish in the herring family Clupeidae.
10	Sawfish	Sawfish, also known as carpenter sharks, are a family of rays characterized by a long, narrow, flattened rostrum, or nose extension, lined with sharp transverse teeth, arranged in a way that resembles a saw.
11	Scorpion	Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones.
12	Scorpion Fish	The Scorpaenidae are a family of mostly marine fish that includes many of the world’s most venomous species.
13	Sea Dragon	The leafy seadragon or Glauert’s seadragon, is the only member of the genus Phycodurus and is a marine fish in the family Syngnathidae.
14	Sea Lion	Sea lions are pinnipeds characterized by external ear flaps, long foreflippers, the ability to walk on all fours, short and thick hair, and a big chest and belly.
15	Sea Otter	The sea otter is a marine mammal native to the coasts of the northern and eastern North Pacific Ocean.
16	Sea Slug	Sea slug is a common name for some marine invertebrates with varying levels of resemblance to terrestrial slugs.
17	Sea Squirt	A tunicate is a marine invertebrate animal, a member of the subphylum Tunicata.
18	Sea Turtle	Sea turtles, sometimes called marine turtles, are reptiles of the order Testudines and of the suborder Cryptodira.
19	Sea Urchin	Sea urchins are spiny, globular echinoderms in the class Echinoidea.
20	Seahorse	A seahorse is any of 46 species of small marine fish in the genus Hippocampus.
21	Seal	Pinnipeds, commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals.
22	Serval	The serval is a wild cat native to Africa. It is widespread in sub-Saharan countries, except rainforest regions.
23	Shark	Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.
24	Sheep	Sheep or domestic sheep are domesticated, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock.
25	Shiba Inu	The Shiba Inu is a breed of hunting dog from Japan.
26	Shih Tzu	The Shih Tzu is a toy dog breed originating from Tibet and having been bred from the Pekingese and the Lhasa Apso.
27	Shrimp	Shrimpfish, also called razorfish, are five small species of marine fishes in the subfamily Centriscinae of the family Centriscidae.
28	Siamese	The Siamese fighting fish, commonly known as the betta, is a freshwater fish native to Southeast Asia, namely Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
29	Siamese Fighting Fish	The Siamese fighting fish, commonly known as the betta, is a freshwater fish native to Southeast Asia, namely Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
30	Siberian Cat	The Siberian is a centuries-old landrace of domestic cat in Russia and recently developed as a formal breed with standards promulgated the world over since the late 1980s.
31	Siberian Husky	The Siberian Husky is a medium-sized working sled dog breed.
32	Siberian Tiger	The Siberian tiger or Amur tiger is a population of the tiger subspecies Panthera tigris tigris native to the Russian Far East, Northeast China and possibly North Korea.
33	Silver Dollar	Silver dollar is a common name given to a number of species of fishes, mostly in the genus Metynnis, tropical fish belonging to the family Characidae which are closely related to piranha and pacu.
34	Skate Fish	Skates are cartilaginous fish belonging to the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea of rays.
35	Skunk	Amphiprion perideraion, also known as the pink skunk clownfish or the pink anemonefish, is a species of anemonefish that is widespread from northern Australia.
36	Sloth	Sloths are a group of arboreal Neotropical xenarthran mammals constituting the suborder Folivora.
37	Slow Worm	The slow worm is a reptile native to western Eurasia. It is also called a deaf adder, a slowworm, a blindworm, or regionally, a long-cripple and hazelworm.
38	Snail	A snail is, in loose terms, a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs.
39	Snake	Snakes are elongated, limbless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes.
40	Snapping Turtle	The common snapping turtle is a species of large freshwater turtle in the family Chelydridae.
41	Snowshoe Hare	The snowshoe hare, also called the varying hare or snowshoe rabbit, is a species of hare found in North America.
42	Snowy Owl	The snowy owl, also known as the polar owl, the white owl and the Arctic owl, is a large, white owl of the true owl family.
43	South China Tiger	The South China tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies that is native to southern China.
44	Spadefoot Toad	The Scaphiopodidae are a family of American spadefoot toads, which are native to North America.
45	Sparrow	The house sparrow is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in most parts of the world.
46	Spectacled Bear	The spectacled bear, also known as the Andean bear, Andean short-faced bear or mountain bear and locally as jukumari, ukumari or ukuku.
47	Sperm Whale	The sperm whale or cachalot is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator.
48	Spider Monkey	Spider monkeys are New World monkeys belonging to the genus Ateles, part of the subfamily Atelinae, family Atelidae.
49	Spiny Dogfish	The spiny dogfish, spurdog, mud shark, or piked dogfish is one of the best known species of the Squalidae family of sharks, which is part of the Squaliformes order.
50	Spix’s Macaw	Spix’s macaw, also known as the little blue macaw, is a macaw species that was endemic to Brazil.
51	Sponge	Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera, are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts.
52	Squid	Decapodiformes is a superorder of Cephalopoda comprising all cephalopod species with ten limbs, specifically eight short arms and two long tentacles.
53	Squirrel	Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-size rodents.
54	Squirrel Monkey	Squirrel monkeys are New World monkeys of the genus Saimiri.
55	Sri Lankan Elephant	The Sri Lankan elephant is native to Sri Lanka and one of three recognised subspecies of the Asian elephant.
56	Staffordshire Bull Terrier	The Staffordshire Bull Terrier, also called the Staffy or Stafford, is a purebred dog of small to medium size in the terrier group that originated in the northern parts of Birmingham.
57	Stag Beetle	Stag beetles are a family of about 1,200 species of beetles in the family Lucanidae, currently classified in four subfamilies.
58	Starfish	Starfish or sea stars are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea.
59	Stick Insect	The Phasmatodea are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick-bugs, walking sticks, stick animals, or bug sticks.
60	Stingray	Stingrays are a group of sea rays, which are cartilaginous fish related to sharks.
61	Stoat	The stoat or short-tailed weasel, also known as the Eurasian ermine, Beringian ermine, or simply ermine, is a mustelid native to Eurasia.
62	Striped Rocket Frog	The striped rocket frog, or in its native range known as the rocket frog, occurs mostly in coastal areas from northern Western Australia to around Gosford in New South Wales.
63	Sturgeon	Sturgeon is the common name for the 27 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae.
64	Sucker Fish	The Catostomidae are the suckers of the order Cypriniformes, with about 78 species in this family of freshwater fishes.
65	Sumatran Elephant	The Sumatran elephant is one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, and native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
66	Sumatran Orangutan	The Sumatran orangutan is one of the three species of orangutans.
67	Sumatran Rhinoceros	The Sumatran rhinoceros, also known as the Sumatran rhino, hairy rhinoceros or Asian two-horned rhinoceros, is a rare member of the family Rhinocerotidae and one of five extant species of rhinoceros.
68	Sumatran Tiger	The Sumatran tiger is a population of Panthera tigris sondaica on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
69	Sun Bear	The sun bear is a species in the family Ursidae occurring in the tropical forests of Southeast Asia.
70	Swai Fish	The iridescent shark, iridescent shark catfish is a species of shark catfish native to the rivers of Southeast Asia.
71	Swan	Swans are birds of the family Anatidae within the genus Cygnus.
72	Swedish Vallhunda	The Swedish Vallhund, also known as the Västgötaspets and Swedish cow dog, is a breed of dog native to Sweden.

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