Common Animals

These are mundane animals found in the region of Ranu.

There are, of course, more animals than can be listed. Below are only some notable ones.

Amphibians

• Newts: Alpine newt, [Dabube] crested newt, northern crested newt, smooth newt, [Greek] smooth newt
• Frogs: Agile frog, [common] frog, marsh frog, moor frog, edible frog, pool frog, [European] tree frog
• Toads: Common spadefoot, common toad, eastern spadefoot toad, [European] fire-bellied toad, [European] green toad, [European] toad, yellow-bellied toad

Arthropods

Arachnids

• Spiders: Black widow spider, crab spider, cross orbweaver spider, cucumber green spider, giant house spider, glossy ant spider, half-edged wall jumping spider, [European] harvestman, lobed argiope, long-bodied cellar spider, marbled cellar spider, [European] nursery web spider, rabbit hutch spider, raft spider, sheet weaver spider, silver-sided sector spider, [Mediterranean] spiny false wolf spider, triangulate combfoot, walnut orbweaver, wasp spider, wolf spider, zebra jumping spider
• Other arachnids: Flat mite, house pseudoscorpion, ixodid tick, mountain scorpion (Alpiscorpius dinaricus)

Crustaceans

• Crustaceans: Brown crab, cold water prawn, ivory barnacle, [European] lobster, [Chinese] mitten crab, noble crawfish, shore crab, snow crab, [European] spider crab, spiny lobster, yellow crab

Insects

• Beetles: Ambrosia beetle, blue mint beetle, copper peacock beetle, [Mellet's] downy-back beetle, dune scarab beetle, fir engraver beetle, graciliella beetle, greater stag beetle, grooved ground beetle (rhysodes sulcatus), hide beetle, [Mediterranean] leaf beetle, long-horned beetle, noble chafer beetle, orange leaf beetle [Orsodacne cerasi], rose chafer beetle, [Pannonian] tiger beetle, violet oil beetle
• Butterflies: Blue spot hairstreak butterfly, cabbage white butterfly, grizzled skipper butterfly, mallow skipper butterfly, spotted fritillary
• Moths: Autumn emperor moth, beautiful marbled moth, the druid moth, [common] lutestring moth, straw-barred pearl moth
• Other insects: Ash cicada, bicolor stonefly (Marthamea vitripennis), bumblebee, [Bosnian] bush cricket, caddisfly, carder bee, dog flea, green leafhopper, honey bee, iris mantis, mosquito, red ant, [Hades] rock centipede (Geophilus hadesi), roundhorn fly (Heteromyza rotundicornis), small red-eyed damselfly, [Bulgarian] stone grasshopper, stream mayfly
• Wasps and hornets: Common wasp, ensign wasp, [European] hornet, [European] paper wasp, [German] yellowjacket

Other

• Other arthropods: Spiny armadillo isopod (Echinarmadillidium fruxgalli)

Avians

• Accipters: Bearded vulture, black kite, [common] buzzard, cinereous vulture, eastern imperial eagle, [Pallas's] fish-eagle, golden eagle, greater spotted eagle, griffon vulture, hen harrier, northern goshawk, osprey, red kite, rough-legged hawk, [Eurasian] sparrowhawk
• Anseriforms: Barnacle goose, [common] eider, gadwall, garganey, mallard, ruddy shelduck, smew, snow goose, [common] teal, tufted duck, tundra swan, velvet scoter, whooper swan, [Eurasian] wigeon, wood duck
• Auks, murres, and puffins: Dovekie, great auk, [common] murre, [Atlantic] puffin
• Charadiforms: Black tern, dunlin, [common] gull, glaucous gull, grey plover, jack snipe, nothern lapwing, [Eurasian] oystercatcher, parasitic jaeger, pied avocet, red phalarope, ruddy turnstone, [Arctic] skua, [Eurasian] stone-curlew, [Caspian] tern
• Falcons: Gyrfalcon, [Eurasian] hobby, lesser kestrel, merlin, peregrine falcon
• Galliforms: Black grouse, domestic chicken [red junglefowl], [common] quail, rock ptarmigan,
• Other avians: [European] bee-eater, black stork, black woodpecker, [common] crane, [common] cuckoo, great bustard, great cormorant, greater flamingo, [Eurasian] hoopoe, [common] kingfisher, lesser flamingo, little grebe, [common] loon, [common] moorhen, [European] nightjar, pallid swift, red-throated diver, [European] shag, [Leach's] storm petrel, white stork
• Owls: Boreal owl, snowy owl, tawny owl, western barn owl
• Passerines: Alpine accentor, bearded reedling, black redstart, bluethroat, crested lark, dunnock, fieldfare, [common] firecrest, goldcrest, [European] golden oriole, house sparrow, icterine warbler, marsh tit, ortolan bunting, pied wheatear, red-backed shrike, redwing, river warbler, [European] robin, rosy starling, [Eurasian] skylark, sand martin, sedge warbler, snow bunting, song thrush, spotted flycatcher, [common] starling, thrush nightingale, tree pipit, wallcreeper, [Bohemian] waxwing, woodchat shrike, [Eurasian] wren
  • Corvids: Alpine chough, carrion crow, hooded crow, [Eurasian] jay, [Eurasian] magpie, [European] nutcracker, [Common] raven, rook, western jackdaw, yellow-billed chough
  • Finches: Brambling, [Eurasian' chaffinch, [European] goldfinch, hawfinch, [Common] rosefinch, [European] serinPelecanes: [Eurasian] bittern, glossy ibis, great white pelican, grey heron, little egret, purple heron, [Eurasian] spoonbill
• Pigeons: Hill pigeon, laughing dove, rock dove, [European] turtle dove

Fish

• Fishes: [European] anchovy, angelshark, autumn chub, basking shark, beloribitsa, black goby, blue bream, blue shark, brook lamprey, brook minnow, butterfish, channel catfish, [Atlantic] cod, crucian carp, [common] dab, dark mudfish, deepnosed pipefish, eastern carp, estuarine carp, flounder, garfish, grayling, great sandeel, great white shark, [Danube delta] gudgeon, [Atlantic] herring, longnose spurdog, lumpsucker, marbled barbel, northern pike, nursehound, pearl bream, [European] perch, [common] pike, rainbow trout, river eel, salmon, sand loach, [Danube] sawfish, sea lamprey, sea trout, sharp-bellied perlin, shorthorn sculpin, small bream, [European] smelt, [common] smooth-hound, small-spotted catshark, small sturgeon, snailfish, spiny dogfish, spirlin, spurdog shark, [Techirghiol] stickleback, [Atlantic] sturgeon, [common] stingray, stone loach, sunflower wrasse, swordfish, tench, thornback ray, [common] thresher, twait shad, viviparous eelpout, weatherfish, white amur, whitefish, zarte, ziege

Mammals

• Artiodactyls: Elomeryx, [European] fallow deer, moose, red deer, reindeer, roe deer, sika deer
• Bats: [Common] bent-wing bat, brown long-eared bat, [European] free-tailed bat, greater horseshoe bat, [common] noctule, northern bat, parti-colored bat, [common] pipistrelle, [Savi's] pipistrelle, pond bat, soprano pipistrelle, western barbastelle, whiskered bat
• Bears: Brown bear
• Canines: [European] dhole, domestic dog, [Arctic] fox, golden jackal, grey wolf, red fox
• Caprines: Alpine ibex, chamois, domestic sheep, northern chamois, wild goat
• Cetaceans: Beluga, blue whale, [common] bottlenose dolphin, bowhead whale, fin whale, grey whale, harbor porpoise, humpback whale, [common] minke whale, narwhal, northern bottlenose whale, orca, [North Atlantic] right whale, sperm whale, striped dolphin, white-beaked dolphin
• Equines: Domestic horse, donkey, mule, [Persian] onager, tarpan, wild horse
• Erinaceids: [West European] hedgehog, northern white-breasted hedgehog
• Felines: Cave lion, domestic cat, leopard, [Eurasian] lynx, [European] wildcat
• Hyenas: Cave hyena
• Lagomorphs: [European] hare, mountain hare, [European] rabbit
• Moles: Blind mole, [European] mole
• Mustelids: [European] badger, beech marten, least weasel, marbled polecat, [European] mink, [Eurasian] otter, [European] pine marten, [European] polecat, stoat, wolverine
• Pachyderms: Stegodon, woolly mammoth
• Primates: Adapis
• Rhinos: Paraceratherium, woolly rhinoceros
• Rodents: Alpine marmot, [Eurasian] beaver, black rat, brown rat, [European] ground squirrel, [European] hamster, lesser mole rat, red squirrel, [Romanian] hamster, souslik, speckled ground squirrel, wood lemming
  • Mice: Forest dormouse, garden dormouse, harvest mouse, hazel dormouse, steppe mouse, striped field mouse, wood mouse
  • Voles: Bank vole, field vole, snow vole, tundra vole, [common] vole, water vole
• Seals: Grey seal, [Meditteranean] monk seal, ringed seal
• Shrews: Alpine shrew, bicolored shrew, [Russian] desman, [common] shrew, [eurasian] water shrew
• Suines: Domestic pig, wild boar
• Ungulates: Aurochs, domestic cow, [European] water buffalo, wisent

Mollusks

• Clams: Lake fingernail clam, pea cockle, shining pea clam
• Cuttlefish: Elegant cuttlefish, pink cuttlefish
• Limpets: lake limpet, river limpet
• Octopuses: curled octopus, musky octopus, [common] octopus
• Other mollusks: Greater argonaut, spotted sea hare, striped nerite
• Slugs: Cellar slug, hedgehog slug, keeled slug, small striped slug, worm slug, field slug, marsh slug,
• Snails: [common] chrysalis snail, crested vertigo, hairy snail, melanopsid, red-rimmed melania, stream valvata, white ramshorn, big-ear radix, blind awlsnail, eccentric vallonia, widespread column, garden snail, clear glass snail, great ramshorn, [Lister's] river snail, mud snail, narrow-mouthed whorl snail, river nerite, [common] bladder snail, copse snail, gravel snail, hollow-shelled snail, large-mouthed valve snail, decollate snail, great pond snail, mud bithynia
• Squids: Little squid, [European] flying squid, [common] squid

Reptiles

• Chelonians: Green sea turtle, hawksbill sea turtle, loggerhead sea turtle, pond slider, [European] pond turtle, [common] tortoise
• Crocodilians: Duerosuchus, theriosuchus
• Dinosaurs: Ajkaceratops, elopteryx, magyarosaurus dacus, thecodontosaurus, volgatitan, zalmoxes,
• Lizards: [Caucasian] agama, blue lizard, blue-throated keeled lizard, [European] copper skink, eastern slowworm, [Kotschy's] gecko, [Pallas's] glass lizard, [Balkan] green lizard, [European] green lizard, [Mediterranean] house gecko, [European] legless lizard, sand lizard, [common] slowworm, steppe-runner, [Mediterranean] thin-toed gecko, viviparous lizard, [common] wall lizard
• Other reptiles: Dongusuchus, estemmenosuchus
• Snakes: Adder, arrow snake, aspic viper, [European] blind snake, blotched snake, blunt-nosed viper, [European] cat snake, dice snake, grass snake, [European] horned viper, meadow viper, [Siberian] pit viper, [European] ratsnake, rose big-toothed snake, smooth snake, tiger keelback, [Balkan] whip snake

Worms

• Worms: Bristleworms, earthworms, flatworms, flukes, roundworms, tapeworms