Animals Beginning With N: Photos and Illustrations • Travel For Wildlife (2024)

Animals Beginning With N: The Complete List

If you’ve ever played the Animal Alphabet game then you know just how hard it is to think of animals beginning with n. Most people can’t think of a single one!

You might be surprised to learn that this planet is actually quite full of amazing animals beginning with n. In fact, I have collected hundreds of them right here in this post.

Because the list is so long, I haven’t provided specific information about each animal, but if you’re looking for a shorter, more fun list, then check out our other post Animals That Start With N: the Illustrated Guide.

That one has 37 beautifully illustrated animals and fun facts about each one! Ready to impress all your friends? Then let’s get going on the humongous list of animals beginning with n!

Our Favorite Animals that Start with N, an illustrated video!

A Quick Note About How We Chose the Animals on this List

This is a list of the English common names of all the animals beginning with n that we could find in the entire world. We didn’t include scientific names since that’s probably not what you’re looking for (plus that would add many thousands of names to the list!) I also haven’t included any scientific order or family names for the same reason.

This list focuses on vertebrate animals (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish) but we’ve included a short list of invertebrate animals at the end of the list. We’ve formatted the lists to start with all the single word names of animals beginning with N (because they’re the best for animal alphabets!) and the rest are multi-word names (like the New Guinea Singing Dog below) which are simply alphabetized.

More Posts From Our Animal Alphabet Series

• Animals That Start With E: the Ultimate List
• Animals Starting With K: the Humongous List
• Animals That Start With N: Pictures, facts, and video
• Animals That Start With U: over 130 animals, photos
• Animals That Start With X: all the animals in one list

So How Many N Animals Are There in the World?

If you thought it was hard to think of any animals beginning with n then you’ll probably be surprised to learn that I’ve found over700 animals beginning with n! And that’s just counting the common names of vertebrate animals.

I’ve added just a couple of invertebrate animals beginning with n to the end of the list, which isn’t exactly fair considering invertebrate animal species far outnumber vertebrates. But hey, most invertebrate species don’t even have common names! So here’s a quick breakdown of all the animals beginning with n:

Summary of the number of Animals beginning with n on our list.

176 Mammals
178 Birds
35 Reptiles
46 Amphibians
288 Fish
5 Invertebrates
728 Animals Beginning With N!

ANIMALS BEGINNING WITH N

If you want more information about any of these animals beginning with n, simply highlight the name in the list and right click it in your browser. Then from the pop up menu choose “Search with Google” and you’re good to go! Some of my favorite info resources are the IUCN Redlist, Arkive, Fishbase, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Encyclopedia of Life, & One Z00m which is my favorite way to see exactly where any animal fits on the tree of life!

176Mammals Beginning with N

1. Nabarlek
2. Napu
3. Narwhal
4. Nilgai
5. Ningaui
6. Noctule
7. Noolbenger
8. Numbat
9. Nutria
10. Nyala
11. Nairobi grass rat
12. Naivasha mole rat
13. naked mole rat
14. naked-eared deer mouse
15. naked-nosed pocket gopher
16. naked-rumped pouched bat
17. naked-rumped tomb bat
18. Namaqua dune mole rat
19. Namaqua rock rat
20. Namaqua slender mongoose
21. Namdapha flying squirrel
22. Namib long-eared bat
23. Napo spiny rat
24. narrow-eared roundleaf bat
25. narrow-faced kangaroo rat
26. narrow-footed bristly mouse
27. narrow-headed shrew
28. narrow-headed vole
29. narrow-nosed harvest mouse?n
30. arrow-nosed planigale
31. narrow-skulled pocket mouse
32. narrow-striped marsupial shrew
33. narrow-striped mongoose
34. narrow-tailed white-bellied rat
35. narrow-winged pipistrelle
36. Nasarov’s vole
37. Natal duiker
38. Natal free-tailed bat
39. Natal multimammate mouse
40. Natal red rockhare
41. Nathusius’s pipistrelle
42. Natterer’s bat
43. Natterer’s tuco-tuco
44. Nayarit mouse
45. Neave’s mouse
46. neglected shrew
47. Negros naked-backed fruit bat
48. Negros shrew
49. Nehring’s blind mole rat
50. Neill’s long-tailed giant rat
51. Nelson and Goldman’s woodrat
52. Nelson’s antelope squirrel
53. Nelson’s collared lemming
54. Nelson’s giant deer mouse
55. Nelson’s kangaroo rat
56. Nelson’s pocket mouse
57. Nelson’s rice rat
58. Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse
59. Nelson’s woodrat
60. Nendo tube-nosed fruit bat
61. neotropical pygmy squirrel
62. neotropical river otter
63. neriad horseshoe bat
64. Neuquen grass mouse
65. New Britain naked-backed fruit bat
66. New Britain water rat
67. New Caledonia flying fox
68. New England cottontail
69. New Guinea big-eared bat
70. New Guinea long-eared bat
71. New Guinea sheath-tailed bat
72. New Guinea singing dog
73. New Guinean jumping mouse
74. New Guinean planigale
75. New Guinean quoll
76. New Guinean rat
77. New Holland mouse
78. New Zealand fur seal
79. New Zealand greater short-tailed bat
80. New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat
81. New Zealand sea lion
82. Niangara free-tailed bat
83. Nicaraguan harvest mouse
84. Nicaraguan pocket gopher
85. Nicaraguan woodrat
86. Nicobar flying fox
87. Nicobar shrew
88. Nicobar tree shrew
89. Nigerian free-tailed bat
90. Nigerian gerbil
91. Nigerian mole rat
92. Nigerian shrew
93. Night Monkey
94. Nikolaus’s mouse
95. Nile lechwe
96. Nilgiri marten
97. Nilgiri tahr
98. Nillu rat
99. Nimba otter shrew
100. Nimba shrew
101. nimble-footed mouse
102. nine-banded armadillo
103. Ningbing pseudantechinus
104. Niobe ground squirrel
105. Noack’s roundleaf bat
106. noisy night monkey
107. Nolthenius’s long-tailed climbing mouse
108. nonsense rat
109. North African crested porcupine
110. North African elephant shrew
111. north African hedgehog
112. North American porcupine
113. north Chinese flying squirrel
114. North Moluccan flying fox
115. north Siberian vole
116. North Sulawesi Babirusa
117. north Sumatran leaf monkey
118. northern Amazon red squirrel
119. northern bat
120. northern birch mouse
121. northern bog lemming
122. northern bottlenose whale
123. northern broad-nosed bat
124. northern brown bandicoot
125. northern collared lemming
126. northern elephant seal
127. northern flying squirrel
128. northern free-tailed bat
129. northern fur seal
130. northern ghost bat
131. northern glider
132. northern gracile mouse opossum
133. northern grass mouse
134. northern grasshopper mouse
135. northern hairy-nosed wombat
136. northern hopping mouse
137. northern long-eared bat
138. northern Luzon giant cloud rat
139. northern Luzon shrew rat
140. northern mastiff bat
141. northern mole vole
142. northern nail-tailed wallaby
143. northern naked-tailed armadillo
144. northern night monkey
145. Northern Palawan tree squirrel
146. northern palm squirrel
147. northern pika
148. northern pocket gopher
149. northern pudu
150. northern pygmy mouse
151. northern quoll
152. northern raccoon
153. northern red-backed vole
154. northern right whale
155. northern right whale dolphin
156. northern river otter
157. northern rock mouse
158. northern short-tailed shrew
159. northern smooth-tailed tree shrew
160. northern sportive lemur
161. northern tamandua
162. northern three-toed jerboa
163. northern tree shrew
164. northern viscacha
165. northern water rat
166. northern white rhino
167. northern yellow bat
168. northwestern fat mouse
169. northwestern marsupial mole
170. Norway lemming
171. Nubian ibex
172. Nubra pika
173. Nusatenggara short-nosed fruit bat
174. nut-colored yellow bat
175. Nyika climbing mouse
176. Nyika rock rat

178 Birds Beginning With N

1. Nandu
2. Nene
3. Nightjar
4. Night-Heron
5. Nighthawk
6. Nightingale
7. Nicator
8. Neddicky
9. Noddy
10. Nunbird
11. Nunlet
12. Nutcracker
13. Nuthatch
14. Nacunda Nighthawk
15. Nahan’s Francolin
16. Naked-faced Barbet
17. Naked-faced Spiderhunter
18. Namaqua Dove
19. Namaqua Sandgrouse
20. Namaqua Warbler
21. Nanday Parakeet
22. Nankeen Kestrel
23. Nankeen Night Heron
24. Napo Sabrewing
25. Narcissus flycatcher
26. Narcondam Hornbill
27. Narina’s Trogon
28. Narino Tapaculo
29. Narosky’s Seedeater
30. Narrow-billed Antwren
31. Narrow-billed Tody
32. Narrow-billed Woodcreeper
33. Narrow-tailed Emerald
34. Narrow-tailed Starling
35. Nashville Warbler
36. Natal Francolin
37. Native Hen
38. Nauru Reed-Warbler
39. Nava’s Wren
40. Nazca booby
41. Nduk Eagle-Owl
42. Neblina Metaltail
43. Neblina tapaculo
44. Nechisar Nightjar
45. Necklaced Spinetail
46. Needle-billed Hermit
47. Neergaard’s Sunbird
48. Negros Bleeding-heart
49. Negros Tree Babbler
50. Nelicourvi Weaver
51. Nelson’s oriole
52. Neotropic Cormorant
53. Neotropical River Warbler
54. Nepal Cutia
55. Nepal Fulvetta
56. Nepal Martin
57. Nesoenas mayeri
58. Neumann’s Warbler
59. New Britain Bronzewing
60. New Britain Coucal
61. New Britain Friarbird
62. New Britain Goshawk
63. New Britain Kingfisher
64. New Britain Rail
65. New Britain Sparrowhawk
66. New Britain Thrush
67. New Caledonia White-eye
68. New Caledonian Crow
69. New Caledonian Cuckooshrike
70. New Caledonian Flycatcher
71. New Caledonian Friarbird
72. New Caledonian Imperial-Pigeon
73. New Caledonian Lorikeet
74. New Caledonian Owlet-Nightjar
75. New Caledonian Rail
76. New Caledonian Whistler
77. New Guinea Babbler
78. New Guinea Bronzewing
79. New Guinea Cuckooshrike
80. New Guinea Flightless Rail
81. New Guinea Harpy Eagle
82. New Guinea Mountain White-eye
83. New Guinea Pipit
84. New Guinea Scrub Fowl
85. New Hanover Munia
86. New Holland Honeyeater
87. New Ireland Friarbird
88. New Ireland Munia
89. New Zealand Bellbird
90. New Zealand Dabchick
91. New Zealand Dotterel
92. New Zealand Falcon
93. New Zealand Little Bittern
94. New Zealand Pigeon
95. New Zealand Quail
96. New Zealand Robin
97. New Zealand Scaup
98. New Zealand Stilt
99. New Zealand storm-petrel
100. New Zealand Thrush
101. Newton’s Fiscal
102. Newton’s Golden Bowerbird
103. Newton’s Parakeet
104. Newton’s Sunbird
105. Niam-niam parrot
106. Niaufoou Scrubfowl
107. Nicaraguan Grackle
108. Nicaraguan Seed Finch
109. Niceforo’s Wren
110. Nicobar Bulbul
111. Nicobar pigeon
112. Nicobar scops-owl
113. Nicobar Scrub Fowl
114. Nicobar Shikra
115. Nightingale Finch
116. Nightingale Wren
117. Nihoa Finch
118. Nile Valley Sunbird
119. Nilgiri Pipit
120. Nilgiri White-breasted Laughing Thrush
121. Nilgiri Wood Pigeon
122. Nkulengu Rail
123. Noble Snipe
124. Nocturnal Curassow
125. Noisy Friarbird
126. Noisy Miner
127. Noisy Pitta
128. Noisy Scrub-bird
129. Norfolk Gerygone
130. Norfolk Parakeet
131. Norfolk Starling
132. Noronha Elaenia
133. Noronha Vireo
134. Northern Barred-Woodcreeper
135. Northern Beardless Tyrannulet
136. Northern Bentbill
137. Northern Black-Flycatcher
138. Northern bobwhite
139. Northern Brown-throated Weaver
140. Northern Brownbul
141. Northern Cardinal
142. Northern Cassowary
143. Northern Crombec
144. Northern curlew
145. Northern Double-collared Sunbird
146. Northern Fantail
147. Northern Flicker
148. Northern Gannet
149. Northern Giant-Petrel
150. Northern Grey Tit
151. Northern hawk-owl
152. Northern Masked Weaver
153. Northern Mockingbird
154. Northern Parula
155. Northern Phalarope
156. Northern Potoo
157. Northern Puffback
158. Northern raven
159. Northern Rosella
160. Northern Rough-winged Swallow
161. Northern Royal Albatross
162. Northern saw-whet owl
163. Northern Screamer
164. Northern Scrub Robin
165. Northern Scrub-Flycatcher
166. Northern slaty antshrike
167. Northern Waterthrush
168. Northern Wheatear
169. Northern White-crowned Tapaculo
170. Northwestern crow
171. Nubian Bustard
172. Nubian Nightjar
173. Nubian Woodpecker
174. Numfor Paradise Kingfisher
175. Nuthatch Vanga
176. Nuttall’s woodpecker
177. Nutting’s flycatcher
178. Nyanza Swift

35 Reptiles Beginning With N

1. Narrow-breasted Snakeneck Turtle
2. Narrowbridged Mud Turtle
3. Narrowbridged Musk Turtle
4. Narrowhead Softshell
5. Narrowhead Water Snake
6. Natal Hingeback Tortoise
7. Natal Midlands Dwarf Chameleon
8. Natural Tree Gecko
9. Navassa Curlytail Lizard
10. Nayarit Coral Snake
11. Negros ForestDragon
12. Negros Island Worm Snake
13. Negros Scaly-toed Gecko
14. Nelson’s Spiny Lizard
15. New Guinea crocodile
16. New Guinea Snakeneck Turtle
17. New GuineaSnapping Turtle
18. Newman’s Knob-scaled Lizard
19. Night Snake
20. Night Tiger
21. Nikolsky’s Iranian Gecko
22. Nile crocodile
23. Nilson’s Snake Skink
24. Northern alligator lizard
25. Northern bahamian rock iguana
26. Northern Chiapas Arboreal Alligator Lizard
27. Northern Chuckwalla
28. Northern Desert Iguana
29. Northern Leaf-tailed Gecko
30. Northern water snake
31. Northwestern garter snake
32. Nuñez’ Tree Iguana
33. Nubian Soft-shelled Turtle
34. Nuevo Leon Graceful Brown Snake
35. Nutaphand’s Narrowhead Softshell

46 Amphibians Beginning With N

1. Newt
2. Namaqua Caco
3. Namaqua Dainty Frog
4. Namaqua Rain Frog
5. Namaqua stream frog
6. Namiye’s frog
7. Nankiang horned toad
8. Natal banana frog
9. Natal Dwarf Puddle Frog
10. Natal Ghost Frog
11. Natal Sand Frog
12. Natterjack Toad
13. Neglected frog
14. Negros forest frog
15. Nepal Wart Frog, Nepal Cricket Frog
16. Neuse river waterdog
17. New Holland Frog, Snapping Frog
18. New Jersey Chorus Frog
19. New Mexico Spadefoot
20. Nicholl’s Toadlet
21. Nigeria Banana Frog
22. Nile Delta Toad
23. Nornalup frog
24. North African fire salamander
25. Northeastern Pepper Frog
26. Northern Banded Newt
27. Northern Banjo Frog
28. Northern Barred Frog
29. Northern Bullfrog
30. Northern Burrowing Frog
31. Northern corroboree frog
32. Northern Crested Newt
33. Northern Dusky Salamander
34. Northern frog
35. Northern Gray-cheeked Salamander
36. Northern Leopard Frog
37. Northern Ravine Salamander
38. Northern Red-legged Frog
39. Northern sheep frog
40. Northern Spadefoot Toad
41. Northern Territory Frog
42. Northern tinker frog
43. Northern Toadlet
44. Northern Zigzag Salamander
45. Northwest Mexico Leopard Frog
46. Northwestern salamander

288 Fish Beginning With N

1. Nalolo
2. Nase
3. Naso
4. Needlefish
5. Nightfish
6. Ningu
7. Nkupe
8. Noodlefish
9. Nukta
10. Numbray
11. Numbfish
12. Nurseryfish
13. Nachtrieb dace
14. Nagaichthys filipes
15. Nagasaki damsel
16. Nahacky’s angelfish
17. Nail snakelet
18. Nairobi labeo
19. Nakamura’s escolar
20. Naked barracuda
21. Naked blenny
22. Naked cardinalfish
23. Naked characin
24. Naked dartfish
25. Naked goby
26. Naked osman
27. Naked pipefish
28. Naked puffer
29. Naked sand darter
30. Naked schizothoracin
31. Naked shellear
32. Naked silverside
33. Naked snout rattail
34. Naked sole
35. Naked-belly searobin
36. Naked-head toothfish
37. Naked-headed catfish
38. Naked-headed coralbrotula
39. Naked-headed goby
40. Namaqua barb
41. Namib happy
42. Namorado sandperch
43. Naniha goby
44. Narrow barred grubfish
45. Narrow leg skate
46. Narrow worm eel
47. Narrow-barred butterflyfish
48. Narrow-body righteye flounder
49. Narrow-headed Altai osman
50. Narrow-headed puffer
51. Narrow-lined puffer
52. Narrow-lined toadfish
53. Narrow-snouted pipefish
54. Narrowbanded sole
55. Narrowbar swellshark
56. Narrowfront tandan
57. Narrowhead rockcod
58. Narrowmouth cat shark
59. Narrownecked oceanic eel
60. Narrownose smooth hound
61. Narrowsnout grenadier
62. Narrowstripe cardinalfish
63. Narrowstripe pipefish
64. Narrowtail cat shark
65. Nash’s barb
66. Nash’s barb
67. Nassau grouper
68. Natal angler
69. Natal cusk-eel
70. Natal dottyback
71. Natal duckbill
72. Natal duckbill
73. Natal electric ray
74. Natal fingerfin
75. Natal flounder
76. Natal flounders
77. Natal knifejaw
78. Natal mountain catfish
79. Natal pandora
80. Natal sergeant
81. Natal snakelet
82. Natal snakelet
83. Natal toby
84. Natal tongue-fish
85. Natal tongue-fish
86. Natal tongue-fish
87. Natal wrasse
88. Natal yellowfish
89. Natterer’s anchovy
90. Naude’s rubble goby
91. Nautla cichlid
92. Nazas chub
93. Nazas pupfish
94. Nazas shiner
95. Nazas sucker
96. Needle dogfish
97. Needle-tooth moray
98. Needlescaled queenfish
99. Needlespine coral goby
100. Neglected frostfish
101. Neglected grenadier anchovy
102. Negros pipefish
103. Neighbor conger
104. Neil’s grunter
105. Neko-gigi
106. Nelson’s anchovy
107. Neon damsel
108. Neon goby
109. Neon goby
110. Neon tetra
111. Neosho madtom
112. Nervous shark
113. Netted tetra
114. Network pipefish
115. Network sole
116. Network triplefin
117. Neumann’s suckermouth
118. Neumann’s suckermouth
119. Neumayer’s barb
120. New Caledonia cat shark
121. New Caledonian black triplefin
122. New Caledonian blackhead surf triplefin
123. New Caledonian soft-coral pipefish
124. New Caledonian striped triplefin
125. New Caledonian thorny seahorse
126. New Caledonian triplefin
127. New Granada sea catfish
128. New Grenada drum
129. New Guinea blue-eye
130. New Guinea mudskipper
131. New Guinea tandan
132. New Guinea thryssa
133. New Guinea wrasse
134. New Guinean frogfish
135. New Guinean hairtail
136. New River shiner
137. New Zealand blueback sprat
138. New Zealand brill
139. New Zealand catshark
140. New Zealand dory
141. New Zealand greenback flounder
142. New Zealand lanternshark
143. New Zealand lanternshark
144. New Zealand lemon sole
145. New Zealand ling
146. New Zealand longfin eel
147. New Zealand orange perch
148. New Zealand pygmy sleeper
149. New Zealand ruffe
150. New Zealand scaly headed triplefin
151. New Zealand smooth skate
152. New Zealand sole
153. New Zealand sprat
154. Nga lampeye
155. Niangua darter
156. Nibe croaker
157. Nicaragua gizzard shad
158. Nicaraguan mosquitofish
159. Nielsen’s catetyx
160. Nielsen’s mudbrotula
161. Nielsen’s righteye flounder
162. Niger barb
163. Niger hind
164. Niger stingray
165. Niger tetra
166. Nigerian clarias
167. Nigerian killi
168. Nigerian tonguesole
169. Night aulonocara
170. Night sergeant
171. Night sergeant
172. Night smelt
173. Nightmare dreamer
174. Nile distichodus
175. Nile killifish
176. Nile minnow
177. Nile tilapia
178. Nilgiri mystus
179. Nilgiri osteobrama
180. Nilgiris barb
181. Nilgiris garra
182. Nilsson’s pipefish
183. Ninebar prawn-goby
184. Ninebar prawn-goby
185. Ninebar prawn-goby
186. Nineline goby
187. Ninespine batfish
188. Ninespine stickleback
189. Nippon Baratanago
190. Nkhom*o-benga peaco*ck
191. Noble goby
192. Nocturn goby
193. Nocturnal pearlfish
194. Non parasitic lamprey
195. Nonbanded whipfin mojarra
196. Noodlefish
197. Nor’-west snapper
198. Nor’-west snapper
199. Norman’s flounder
200. Norman’s rockfish
201. Norman’s rockfish
202. Norman’s shovelnose ray
203. Norman’s smooth-head
204. Norman’s tonguesole
205. Noronha wrasse
206. North African catfish
207. North Atlantic codling
208. North caucasian gudgeon
209. North New Guinea rainbowfish
210. North Pacific hake
211. North west black bream
212. North-pacific argentine
213. North-pacific frostfish
214. North-pacific frostfish
215. North-west ruffe
216. Northern barracuda
217. Northern bicoloured triplefin
218. Northern bronze-gudgeon
219. Northern brook lamprey
220. Northern cavefish
221. Northern checkmark cichlid
222. Northern fraildisc clingfish
223. Northern gray hakeling
224. Northern gulf anchovy
225. Northern harvestfish
226. Northern hog sucker
227. Northern kahawai
228. Northern kingcroaker
229. Northern madtom
230. Northern mogurnda
231. Northern mossback
232. Northern mud gudgeon
233. Northern paradise fish
234. Northern pike
235. Northern pilchard
236. Northern pipefish
237. Northern platyfish
238. Northern Rainbowfish
239. Northern red tabira bitterling
240. Northern red tabira bitterling
241. Northern river shark
242. Northern rivers catfish
243. Northern rock sole
244. Northern rockfish
245. Northern sand flathead
246. Northern sawtail shark
247. Northern scorpionfish
248. Northern scorpionfish
249. Northern sculpin
250. Northern seahorse
251. Northern smooth-tongue
252. Northern snubnose garfish
253. Northern sole
254. Northern spiny seahorse
255. Northern stargazer
256. Northern starhead topminnow
257. Northern studfish
258. Northern tandan
259. Northern whitefish
260. Northern yellow-black triplefin
261. Northland mudfish
262. Northwest whiptail
263. Norway bullhead
264. Norway goby
265. Norway pout
266. Norwegian pollock
267. Norwegian skate
268. Norwegian topknot
269. Nosestripe klipfish
270. Nosey dottyback
271. Notchbrow blenny
272. Notched flathead
273. Notched triplefin
274. Notchheaded marblefish
275. Notchtail stargazer
276. Notchtongue goby
277. Notoro skate
278. Nun galilaeus
279. Nurse hound
280. Nurse shark
281. Nurse tetra
282. Nusa penida basslet
283. Nutcracker prickleback
284. Nutting’s hatchet fish
285. Nutting’s hatchet fish
286. Nutting’s moray
287. Nyanza barb
288. Nzoia barb

5 Invertebrate animals beginning with N

1. Nautilus
2. Nudibranch
3. Nightcrawler
4. Nematode
5. Neptune’s Cup

Hal Brindley

Brindley is an American conservation biologist, wildlife photographer, filmmaker, writer, and illustrator living in Asheville, NC. He studied black-footed cats in Namibia for his master’s research, has traveled to all seven continents, and loves native plant gardening. See more of his work at Travel for Wildlife, Truly Wild, Our Wild Yard, & Naturalist Studio.