Animals that Start with E
Children enjoy learning about animals, especially those they have never seen before. The animals listed below are found all over the world and are noted for their distinct traits. These creatures would be ideal for an animal unit or a unit concentrating on the letter E. Here are 20 beautiful animals that begin with the letter E, ranging from elephants to elks and elands.
How Many Animals That Start With an E on our list
131 Mammals
138 Birds
35 Reptiles
35 Amphibians
265 Fish
2 Invertebrates
606 Animals That Begin With E!
Mammals: 131 Animals That Start With An E
- Echidna
- Eland
- Elephant
- Elk
- Ermine
- Euro (aka Wallaroo)
- Eared Seal
- ear-spot squirrel
- eared hutia
- earless water rat
- earth-colored mouse
- East African epauletted fruit bat
- East African little collared fruit bat
- East African long-eared elephant shrew
- East African mole rat
- East Caucasian tur
- eastern barbastelle
- eastern barred bandicoot
- eastern chestnut mouse
- eastern chipmunk
- eastern cottontail
- eastern European hedgehog
- eastern fox squirrel
- eastern gray kangaroo
- eastern gray squirrel
- eastern hare-wallaby
- eastern heather vole
- eastern hog-nosed skunk
- eastern little mastiff bat
- Eastern Lowland Gorilla
- eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus)
- eastern pipistrelle
- eastern pygmy possum
- eastern quoll
- eastern rat
- eastern rock elephant shrew
- eastern roe deer
- eastern shrew mouse
- eastern small-footed myotis
- eastern small-toothed rat
- eastern spotted skunk
- eastern white-eared giant rat
- eastern woodrat
- Echigo mole
- Ecuador fish-eating rat
- Ecuadoran spiny rat
- Ecuadorean grass mouse
- Ecuadorean rice rat
- Ecuadorean small-eared shrew
- Ecuadorian sac-winged bat
- Edith’s leaf-eared mouse
- Edward’s swamp rat
- Edwards’s long-clawed mouse
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat
- ega long-tongued bat
- Egyptian free-tailed bat
- Egyptian mongoose
- Egyptian pygmy shrew
- Egyptian slit-faced bat
- Egyptian tomb bat
- Eisentraut’s mouse shrew
- Eisentraut’s shrew
- Eisentraut’s striped mouse
- El Carrizo deer mouse
- El Dorado grass mouse
- Eld’s deer
- Eldorado broad-nosed bat
- elegant fat-tailed opossum
- elegant margareta rat
- elegant myotis
- elegant rice rat
- elegant water shrew
- Elephant Seal
- Elephant Shrew
- Elgon shrew
- Elliot’s short-tailed shrew
- elongated shrew
- eloquent horseshoe bat
- Elvira rat
- emarginate harlequin bat
- Embi mole rat
- Emilia’s gracile mouse opossum
- Emilia’s short-tailed opossum
- Emily’s tuco-tuco
- Emin’s gerbil
- emperor rat
- emperor tamarin
- Enders’s small-eared shrew
- Endo’s pipistrelle
- Enggano rat
- epauletted fruit bat
- equatorial dog-faced bat
- equatorial saki
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat
- Espiritu Santo Island antelope squirrel
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat
- Ethiopian hare
- Ethiopian highland hare
- Ethiopian large-eared roundleaf bat
- Ethiopian narrow-headed rat
- Ethiopian thicket rat
- Ethiopian woolly bat
- Euphrates jerboa
- Eurasian badger
- Eurasian beaver
- Eurasian harvest mouse
- Eurasian lynx
- Eurasian pygmy shrew
- Eurasian red squirrel
- Eurasian shrew
- Eurasian water shrew
- Eurasian Wolf
- European bison or wisent
- European free-tailed bat
- European ground squirrel
- European hare
- European mink
- European mole
- European otter
- European pine marten
- European pine vole
- European polecat
- European rabbit
- European snow vole
- European water vole
- European wildcat
- Eva’s desert mouse
- even-toothed shrew
- evening bat
- Everett’s ferret-badger
- Eversmann’s hamster
- Evorsk vole
Birds: 138 Animals That Start With An E
- Eagle
- Egret
- ‘Elepaio
- Eider
- Emu
- Eagle Owl
- Eared Dove
- Eared Pitta
- Eared Poorwil
- Eared Pygmy Tyrant
- Eared trogon
- East African Citril
- East Coast Akelat
- Eastern Bluebird
- Eastern Bristlebird
- Eastern Chanting-Goshawk
- Eastern Chat-Tanager
- Eastern Chiff-chaff
- Eastern Crowned-Warbler
- Eastern Curlew
- Eastern Double-collared Sunbird
- Eastern Golden-backed Weaver
- Eastern Great Rosefinch
- Eastern Green Magpie
- Eastern Grey Plantain-eater
- Eastern Kingbird
- Eastern Marsh Harrier
- Eastern Meadowlark
- Eastern Mountain Owlet-Nightjar
- Eastern Nicator
- Eastern Paradise-Whydah
- Eastern Parotia
- Eastern Phoebe
- Eastern Riflebird
- Eastern Rock Pigeon
- Eastern Rosella
- Eastern Screech-Owl
- Eastern Spinebill
- Eastern turkey
- Eastern Warbling-Vireo
- Eastern wattled cuckoo-shrike
- Eastern Whipbird
- Eastern White Pelican
- Eastern Wood-Pewee
- Eastern Yellow Robin
- Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill
- Eaton’s Pintail
- Ebony Myzomela
- Eclectus parrot
- Ecuadorian Cacique
- Ecuadorian Ground-Dove
- Ecuadorian Hillstar
- Ecuadorian Picule
- Ecuadorian Piedtail
- Ecuadorian Tyrannulet
- Edward’s pheasant
- Edwards’s Fig-Parrot
- Egyptian Goose
- Egyptian Nightjar
- Egyptian Plover
- Egyptian Vulture
- El Oro Parakeet
- El Oro Tapaculo
- Elegant Crescentchest
- Elegant Crested-Tinamou
- Elegant Euphonia
- Elegant Parrot
- Elegant Pitta
- Elegant Quail
- Elegant Scops-Owl
- Elegant Sunbird
- Elegant Tern
- Eleonora’s Falcon
- Elf owl
- Elfin-woods Warbler
- Elliot’s Laughingthrush
- Elliot’s pheasant
- Elusive Antpitta
- Elwes’ Crake
- Emerald Dove
- Emerald Lorikeet
- Emerald Tanager
- Emerald Toucanet
- Emerald-bellied Puffleg
- Emerald-chinned Hummingbird
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
- Emin’s Shrike
- Emperor Fairywren
- Emperor Goose
- Emperor of Germany Bird of Paradise
- Emperor Penguin
- Empress Brilliant
- Enggano White-eye
- English sparrow
- Epaulet Oriole
- Equatorial Akalat
- Erckell’s Francolin
- Eskimo Curlew
- Esmeraldas Antbird
- Esmeraldas Woodstar
- Ethiopian Swallow
- Euler’s Flycatcher
- Eungella Honeyeater
- Eurasian Bittern
- Eurasian Bullfinch
- Eurasian Capercaillie
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Eurasian Curlew
- Eurasian Dotterel
- Eurasian Golden Oriole
- Eurasian Golden-Plover
- Eurasian Hoopoe
- Eurasian jackdaw
- Eurasian Jay
- Eurasian River Warbler
- Eurasian Scops Owl
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk
- Eurasian Spoonbill
- Eurasian Thick-knee
- Eurasian Treecreeper
- European Bee Eater
- European Goldfinch
- European herring gull
- European Pied Flycatcher
- European Robin
- European Serin
- European Shelduck
- European swallow
- Evening Grosbeak
- Everett’s Thrush
- Everett’s White-eye
- Everglade kite
- Eversmann’s Redstart
- Eye-ringed Flatbill
- Eye-ringed Thistletail
- Eyebrowed thrush
- Eyebrowed Wren-Babbler
- Eyrean Grasswren
Reptiles: 35 Animals That Start With An E
- Eared Keelback
- Eared Legless Lizard
- Eastern Box Turtle
- Eastern Coral Snake
- Eastem Glass Lizard
- Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
- Eastern fox snake
- Eastern Hognose Snake
- Eastern indigo snake
- Eastern Pine Snake
- Eastern Rat Snake
- Eastern Ribbonsnake
- Eastwood’s longtailed seps
- Ebner’s Cylindrical Skink
- Egyptian Cobra
- Egyptian Fringe-fingered Lizard
- Egyptian tortoise
- Eiselt’s Dwarf Racer
- Elburs Lizard
- Elegant Coral Snake
- Elegant Tree Iguana
- Elegant Tree Iguana
- Ellated Skinks
- Elongate Tortoise
- Emerald Lizard
- Emerald Spiny Lizard
- Emerald Tree Boa
- Emerald Tree Monitor
- Engel’s Mabuya
- European Leaf-toed Gecko
- Ernst’s Map Turtle
- Estuarine crocodile
- Euphrates Softshell
- European Tiger Snake
- European pond Turtle
Amphibians: 35 Animals That Start With An E
- Eft (terrestrial stage of a Newt)
- Eastern banjo frog
- Eastern Crested Toad
- Eastern Dwarf Treefrog
- Eastern Ghost Frog
- Eastern Hellbender
- Eastern Leopard Toad
- Eastern Lesser Siren
- Eastern mindanao frog
- Eastern narrow-mouthed toad
- Eastern Owl Frog
- Eastern red-backed salamander
- Eastern Smooth Frog
- Eastern spadefoot
- Eastern Spadefoot
- Ecuador Poison Frog
- Ecuadorian horned frog
- Edible Bullfrog
- Edible Frog
- Eiselt’s caecilian
- El Copé Giant Salamander
- Emei Music Frog
- Emerald poison frog
- Emerald Spotted Treefrog
- Emerald-eyed tree frog
- Epirus Water Frog
- Eritrea Clawed Frog
- Ethiopian banana frog
- Eungella day frog
- Eungella gastric-brooding frog
- Eungella tinker frog
- European frog
- Everett’s treefrog
- Everglades Dwarf Siren
- Ezo Salamander
Fish: 265 Animals That Start With An E
- Eel
- Eartheater
- Eelpout
- Escolar
- Eulachon
- Eagle ray
- Eared blacksmelt
- Eared conger
- Eared maori wrasse
- Earle’s soldierfish
- Earle’s splitfin
- Earspot cusk eel
- Earspot snakeblenny
- Earthworm snake-eel
- East african red finned barb
- East african sardinella
- East African skate
- East Asian fourfinger threadfin
- East China leg skate
- East Coast barb
- East coast crocodilefish
- East coast flounder
- Eastcoast lampeye
- Eastcoast squeaker
- Easter damselfish
- Easter island flyingfish
- Eastern Australian blackhead triplefin
- Eastern Australian legskate
- Eastern banded catshark
- Eastern blue devil
- Eastern bottlenose mormyrid
- Eastern bream
- Eastern Cape redfin
- Eastern cleaner-clingfish
- Eastern clingfish
- Eastern crested loach
- Eastern flower porgy
- Eastern footballer
- Eastern highfin spurdog
- Eastern hulafish
- Easter island moray
- Eastern jumping blenny
- Eastern keelback mullet
- Eastern keelback mullet
- Eastern keelback mullet
- Eastern kelpfish
- Eastern little galaxias
- Eastern longnose spurdog
- Eastern looseskin skate
- Eastern mogurnda
- Eastern mosquitofish
- Eastern numbfish
- Eastern Pacific bonito
- Eastern Pacific flagfin
- Eastern paradise fish
- Eastern paradise fish
- Eastern pomfred
- Eastern rainbow fish
- Eastern river garfish
- Eastern sand darter
- Eastern school shark
- Eastern shovelnose ray
- Eastern shovelnose stingaree
- Eastern silvery minnow
- Eastern smooth boxfish
- Eastern spiny gurnard
- Eastern spiny seahorse
- Eastern spotted gummy shark
- Eastern starhead topminnow
- Eastern triangular butterflyfish
- Eaton’s skate
- Ebeling’s fangjaw
- Ebony gregory
- Eclipse parrotfish
- Ectuntio halfbeak
- Ecuador skate
- Ecuatorial ray
- Edgbaston goby
- Edmondson’s pipefish
- Edmund’s spurdog
- Edwards Plateau shiner
- Eel blenny
- Eel catfish
- Eel pearlfish
- Eel sucker
- Eel worm goby
- Eelgrass blenny
- Egg-mimic darter
- Eggcarrying buntingi
- Eggvin lumpsucker
- Ego zebra
- Egyptian mouth-brooder
- Egyptian sole
- Ehrenberg’s snapper
- Eigenmann’s anchovy
- Eight-lined wrasse
- Eight-whisker gudgeon
- Eightband butterflyfish
- Eightbanded cichlid
- Eightbarbel gudgeon
- Eightbarbel loach
- Eightfinger threadfin
- Eightgill hagfish
- Eightspine cardinalfish
- Ejagham killi
- Elastic eel
- Elat electric ray
- Electric blue kande
- Electric catfish
- Electric numb ray
- Electric ray
- Electron subantarctic
- Elegant clingfish
- Elegant coris
- Elegant corydoras
- Elegant firefish
- Elegant madtom
- Elegant molly
- Elegant moray
- Elegant paradiseus fish
- Elegant pencilfish
- Elegant pipefish
- Elegant unicornfish
- Elegant wrasse
- Elephant ear gourami
- Elephant fish
- Elephant trunk fish
- Elephant-nose cichlid
- Elephant-trunk mormyrid
- Elephantnose fish
- Elephant-snout fish
- Elizabeth reef jawfish
- Elizabeth Springs goby
- Elk River darter
- Elliot’s cardinalfish
- Elliot’s filefish
- Elongate anchovy
- Elongate blenny
- Elongate bulleye
- Elongate carpet shark
- Elongate dory
- Elongate flap-headed goby
- Elongate flounder
- Elongate glass-perchlet
- Elongate grunt
- Elongate hatchetfish
- Elongate loach
- Elongate mbuna
- Elongate nothobranch
- Elongate Poso minnow
- Elongate slimy
- Elongate smooth-head
- Elongate sole
- Elongate tonguesole
- Elongate toothcarp
- Elongate unicornfish
- Elongate worm eel
- Elongated bristlemouth fish
- Elongated robber
- Elusive signal blenny
- Emaciated worm eel
- Emarginate snailfish
- Ember parrotfish
- Ember tetra
- Emblem goby
- Emerald catfish
- Emerald cichlid
- Emerald clingfish
- Emerald coral goby
- Emerald darter
- Emerald goby
- Emerald green lampeye
- Emerald parrotfish
- Emerald rockcod
- Emerald sleeper
- Emerald wrasse
- Emery’s goby
- Emery’s gregory
- Emperor Angelfish
- Emperor cichlid
- Emperor red snapper
- Emperor seamount lightfish
- Empire gudgeon
- Emporer Tetra
- Endeavor dogfish
- Endeavour skate
- English sole
- Englishman seabream
- Engraved catfish
- Enigmatic goby
- Enigmatic loach
- Enigmatic moray
- Enzeli shad
- Epaulet grouper
- Epaulette goby
- Epaulette surgeonfish
- Erect goby
- Eremo skate
- Eritrean butterflyfish
- Erythrops goby
- Escherich’s killi
- Eschmeyer’s scorpionfish
- Esei lake char
- Estuarine glass perchlet
- Estuarine hardyhead
- Estuarine perch
- Estuarine sea catfish
- Estuarine stonefish
- Estuarine thryssa
- Estuarine triplefin
- Estuary cardinalfish
- Estuary croaker
- Estuary goby
- Estuary perch
- Estuary perchlet
- Estuary snake eel
- Estuary sole
- Estuary stargazer
- Ethiopia barb
- Etowah darter
- Eucla cod
- Eurasian catfish
- European anchovy
- European brook lamprey
- European bullhead
- European conger
- European finless eel
- European flounder
- European ling
- European pilchard
- European plaice
- European pollock
- European seabass
- European smelt
- European sprat
- European sturgeon
- Eventooth shark
- Everglades pygmy sunfish
- Evermann’s cardinalfish
- Evermann’s conger
- Evermann’s lantern fish
- Exquisite pygmy goby
- Exquisite rainbowfish
- Exquisite sand-goby
- Exquisite wrasse
- Eye-bar coral-goby
- Eye-line sand-goby
- Eyebar goby
- Eyebar spiny goby
- Eyebrow (Psenes pellucidus)
- Eyebrow goby
- Eyebrow wedgefish
- Eyed sole
- Eyelight fish
- Eyeshade sculpin
- Eyespot ctenopoma
- Eyespot gourami
- Eyespot grenadier
- Eyespot pufferfish
- Eyespot rasbora
- Eyespot skate
- Eyestripe bass
- Eyestripe clingfish
- Eyestripe surgeonfish
- Eyipantla silverside
Invertebrates: 2 Animals That Start With An E
Earwig
Earthworm
1. Elephant
The elephant is the largest terrestrial animal on the planet. They feature lengthy trunks and tails, as well as tusks on both sides of their trunks and enormous flapping ears. Elephant tusks are essentially teeth, which is a fascinating discovery.
2. Electric Eel
Eels live in water and can grow to be up to eight feet long. Using specific systems in their organs, the electric eel may shock prey in the water. The shock has a maximum voltage of 650 volts. Eels are freshwater fish, which is a fascinating fact.
3. Eagle
The eagle represents various different kinds of huge birds. Eagles hunt vertebrates only. The eagle is a predatory bird with a huge beak and feet in the animal kingdom. The bald eagle is the United States of America’s national symbol.
4. Elk
Elk are stunning members of the deer family. In fact, they are the largest member of the deer family. Elk are native to both North America and Eastern Asia. They can weigh over 700 pounds and stand eight feet tall!
5. Echidna
The echidna is an unusual species that resembles a cross between a porcupine and an anteater. They have porcupine-like quills and a large nose, and they devour insects like an anteater. An echidna, like the platypus, is one of the few animals that can lay eggs. They are indigenous to Australia.
6. Emu
The emu is a large Australian bird. In the avian kingdom, only the ostrich is taller than the emu. Emus have feathers but cannot fly. They can, however, sprint at speeds of up to 30 miles per hour. Emus can go for weeks without eating, which is another fascinating truth about them.
7. Egret
The egret is a white water bird. They have long legs, curved necks, and sharp beaks. Egrets, often known as herons, have a huge wingspan. They fish by wading in the water and are praised for their graceful flying patterns.
8. Eland
The eland is a huge African mammal. The eland can weigh over 2,000 pounds as a male and over 1,000 pounds as a female, and it stands around five feet tall. Elands are herbivores that look like oxen.
9. Ermine
Ermines are native to Asia and North America. They are also known as weasels and live for four to six years. Although some ermines can change colors, the majority are brown and white with lengthy bodies and small legs.
10. Eft
The eft is a sort of newt or salamander that lives both on land and in water. The eft, in particular, is a salamander’s juvenile form. Their bodies are lengthy and scaly, with small, flat heads and long tails.
11. Eider
An eider is a type of duck. Males have colorful heads and bills with black and white feathers, whereas females have soft, brown feathers. The feathers of eiders are used to make down pillows and comforters, which is an interesting fact about them.
12. Earthworm
The earthworm is a terrestrial animal with no bones. There are around 1800 different kinds of earthworms, which are also known as angleworms. They can be found all over the planet wherever there is water and soil.
13. Earwig
There are around 2000 different species of earwig. They are nocturnal bugs that consume other insects and plants and lurk in wet, dark locations. Earwigs have long tails with pincers on them. In the United States, they are considered pests.
14. Elephant Seal
The elephant seal lives in the ocean and is distinguished by its unusually shaped nose. They can weigh over 8000 pounds and span over 20 feet in length. They are slow on land but fast in water, reaching depths of up to 5000 feet.
15. Elephant Shrew
The elephant shrew is a small African mammal. The elephant shrew has only four toes and is distinguished by its distinctive snout shape. They consume insects and are also known as jumping shrews. The elephant shrew is a one-of-a-kind creature that looks like a gerbil.
16. Eastern Gorilla
The eastern gorilla is the largest member of the gorilla family. Poaching has resulted in the eastern gorilla becoming a threatened animal species. They are the largest living primate and have a close relationship with humans. There are around 3,800 eastern gorillas on the planet.
17. Eastern Coral Snake
The eastern coral snake is highly poisonous. They can grow to be up to thirty inches long. The American cobra is another name for the eastern coral snake. The eastern coral snake is brightly colored, slender, and swift. Don’t approach too close since they bite and are too fast to stop!
18. Emperor Penguin
The emperor penguin is only found in Antarctica. It is the largest penguin in terms of both height and weight. They can live for up to twenty years and are noted for their incredible diving abilities. An interesting truth about emperor penguins is that their colonies can be seen from space!
19. Egyptian Mau
The Egyptian Mau is a breed of cat. They are distinguished by their short hair and patches. They have almond-shaped eyes and are a domesticated breed of cat. Egyptian Maus are quite rare. The word “Mau” means “sun” in Egyptian.
20. English Shepherd
In the United States, the English Shepherd is a popular dog breed. The English shepherd is noted for his intelligence and herding ability. Males can weigh more than sixty pounds, and females can weigh more than fifty pounds.
