sand tiger
sand shark
Carcharias taurus
Odontaspis taurus | shallow-water shark with sharp jagged teeth found on both sides of Atlantic, sometimes dangerous to swimmers |
| eastern kingbird | a kingbird that breeds in North America and winters in tropical America, distinguished by a white band on the tip of the tail |
eastern meadowlark
Sturnella magna | a meadowlark of eastern North America |
bank martin
bank swallow
sand martin
Riparia riparia | swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks |
eastern red-backed salamander
Plethodon cinereus | common salamander of eastern North America |
eastern cricket frog
Acris gryllus | a cricket frog of eastern United States |
eastern narrow-mouthed toad
Gastrophryne carolinensis | small toad of southeastern United States |
eastern fence lizard
pine lizard
Sceloporus undulatus | small active lizard of United States and north to British Columbia |
side-blotched lizard
sand lizard Uta stansburiana | one of the most abundant lizards in the arid western United States |
| sand lizard Lacerta agilis | a common and widely distributed lizard of Europe and central Asia |
hognose snake
puff adder sand viper | harmless North American snake with upturned nose, may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed |
eastern ground snake
Potamophis striatula
Haldea striatula | in some classifications placed in genus Haldea, small reddish-grey snake of eastern North America |
| sand snake | small North American burrowing snake |
banded sand snake
Chilomeniscus cinctus | a sand snake of southwestern United States, lives in fine to coarse sand or loamy soil in which it `swims', banding resembles that of coral snakes |
eastern indigo snake
Drymarchon corais couperi | a variety of indigo snake |
eastern coral snake
Micrurus fulvius | ranges from Central America to southeastern United States |
horned viper
cerastes
sand viper horned asp
Cerastes cornutus | highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye |
sandgrouse
sand grouse | pigeon-like bird of arid regions of the Old World having long pointed wings and tail and precocial downy young |
eastern dasyure
Dasyurus quoll | a variety of dasyure |
beach flea
sand hopper
sandhopper
sand flea | small amphipod crustaceans that hop like fleas, common on ocean beaches |
| plover | any of numerous chiefly shorebirds of relatively compact build having straight bills and large pointed wings, closely related to the sandpipers |
piping plover
Charadrius melodus | small plover of eastern North America |
killdeer
kildeer
killdeer plover
Charadrius vociferus | American plover of inland waters and fields having a distinctive cry |
| golden plover | plovers of Europe and America having the backs marked with golden-yellow spots |
lapwing
green plover
peewit pewit | large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs |
upland sandpiper
upland plover
Bartramian sandpiper
Bartramia longicauda | large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands |
stilt stiltbird longlegs
long-legs
stilt plover
Himantopus stilt | long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons |
| sand cat | a desert wildcat |
eastern pipistrel
Pipistrellus subflavus | one of the smallest bats of eastern North America |
sand fly
sandfly
Phlebotomus papatasii | any of various small dipterous flies, bloodsucking females can transmit sandfly fever and leishmaniasis |
sand cricket
Jerusalem cricket
Stenopelmatus fuscus | large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose soil along the Pacific coast of the United States |
| sand dollar | flattened disklike sea urchins that live on sandy bottoms |
eastern cottontail
Sylvilagus floridanus | widely distributed in United States except northwest and far west regions |
eastern woodrat
Neotoma floridana | large greyish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States |
| sand rat Meriones longifrons | southern European gerbil |
eastern grey squirrel
eastern gray squirrel
cat squirrel Sciurus carolinensis | common medium-large squirrel of eastern North America, now introduced into England |
fox squirrel
eastern fox squirrel
Sciurus niger | exceptionally large arboreal squirrel of eastern United States |
eastern chipmunk
hackee
striped squirrel
ground squirrel Tamias striatus | small striped semiterrestrial eastern American squirrel with cheek pouches |
| sand rat | small nearly naked African mole rat of desert areas |
hog badger
hog-nosed badger
sand badger
Arctonyx collaris | southeast Asian badger with a snout like a pig |
eastern lowland gorilla
Gorilla gorilla grauri | a kind of gorilla |
eastern chimpanzee
Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii | long-haired chimpanzees of eastentral Africa, closely related to the central chimpanzees |
| sand stargazer | small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North America and South America having eyes on stalks atop head, they burrow in sand to await prey |
sand lance
sand launce
sand eel
launce | very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches |
| sand dab | small food fishes of the Pacific coast of North America |
sand sole
Psettichthys melanostichus | a common flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America |
bunker
sand trap
trap | a hazard on a golf course |
| sand painting | a painting done by Amerindians (especially Navaho), made of fine colored sands on a neutral background |
| sand wedge | a wedge used to get out of sand traps |
backbone
grit
guts
moxie
sand
gumption | fortitude and determination, he didn't have the guts to try it |