Animal names containing "but"

How many of these words for animals containing the word "but" can you guess?
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Last updated: April 13, 2025
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Animal
Beautiful insect with large, colourful wings
Butterfly
Flatfish whose name is partly a corruption of the word "holy"
Halibut
Bird named after a person who sells meat
Butcherbird
Small relative of the partridge, named after the round fastener for shirts and coats
Buttonquail
This insect's name can be constructed from the following clues: "Pub", "However", "Brood parasite bird" and "Roundish, buzzing, pollinating garden insect"
Barbut’s Cuckoo Bumblebee
Sea creature named after a yellow dairy product
Butterfish
Flightless Argentinian waterbird
Chubut steamer duck
Species of curculio (a weevil) named after a variety of edible squash
Butternut curculio
Scientific name for the Pacific molly, named after Amos Butler: the first word starts with the surname of famous poet Edgar Allen, and is an anagram of A COIL PIE
Poecilia butleri
Scientific name for the bandedwinged whitefly; its name can be formed from the clues "Court case", "European currency", "Desmond", an article, "However", an anagram of LION, and "European Unions"
Trialeurodes abutiloneus
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