A-Z: Animal names containing "ass"

A

Wild donkey

B

Fish with the name of a 4-stringed type of guitar

C

Flightless Australian bird which can attack humans

D

Pygmy species of C, above

E

Four-legged reptile of oriental areas, named after window pane material

F

Flying creature, a lover of lawns or fields, with its tail spread out

G

Insect similar to a cricket; known as locusts when they swarm

H

Critically endangered Bolivian bird whose name ends in a word for a pig

I

Relative of F, another avian twitterer associated with lawn plants, from south Asia

J

Casual name sometimes used for a long-extinct beaver-like animal

K

Long-tailed game bird whose first name can be defined in two parts, by the clues "Ex-Dutch PM Wim" and "Scots term for girl"

L

Species of B with a big eating-hole

M

Subspecies of A, from the Gobi Desert area

N

Species of C from New Guinea, ie the area nearer the top of maps

O

Type of B named after the hills of Arkansas & Missouri

P

Another kind of B, bearing the name of a large, fancy-tailed bird

Q

Genus of eel; its name ends in an abbreviation for infrared, then a word for large flightless birds

R

Species of G named after a pretty arc of refracted light in the sky

S

Common name for oceanic types of B

T

Another type of F, with a word for "brown", like a certain British owl

U

Fish genus, sounding like a device for viewing a certain planet

V

Bird with a curved beak, named after a Dutchman

W

Fish with a silent W, a word which comes from Cornish

X

"Foreign" + "burn" + "chopping tool" + "Crass-sounding Roman" give clues to this Congo basin fish's name

Y

Sun-coloured species of B

Z

Striped species of W