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Australian animals that start with P
The full list of Australian animals starting with P: 26 names, taken from the 360 answers to “Name an animal found in Australia” in Icillion.
All 26 Australian animals that start with P
- Pacific Black Duck
- Pacific Gull
- Pademelon
- Palm Cockatoo
- Pelicanalso Australian Pelican
- Perentie
- Phascogale
- Pheasant Coucal
- Pied Butcherbird
- Pied Currawongalso Currawong
- Pig-nosed Turtle
- Pink-eared Duck
- Pink-tongued Skink
- Plains-wanderer
- Planigale
- Platypus
- Pobblebonk Frogalso Eastern Banjo Frog
- Port Jackson Shark
- Possum
- Potoroo
- Powerful Owl
- Princess Parrot
- Purple-crowned Fairywren
- Pygmy Mulga Monitor
- Pygmy Pipehorse
- Pygmy Possum
About this list
- P is the 4th most common first letter in this list: 26 of the 360 Australian animals (7%).
- Shortest: “Possum”. Longest: “Purple-crowned Fairywren”.
- 17 names have more than one word.
- 3 can be spelled more than one way, and all the spellings count.
Quick answers
- How many Australian animals start with P?
- 26 of the 360 Australian animals in Icillion start with P, for example Platypus, Possum and Pademelon.
- What is the longest name among Australian animals that start with P?
- The longest is “Purple-crowned Fairywren” and the shortest is “Possum”.
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