The animal kingdom is home to a wide variety of creatures that come in an assortment of colors. Here are some species considered to be the most colorful in the world.
List of 28 Colorful Animals
1. Blue Morpho Butterfly
A resident of Central and South American rainforests, the blue morpho butterfly is a striking specimen. Its wings appear to be blue but only appear so due to the scales on its wings. The edges of the blue morpho’s wings are dark with white spots.
2. Blue Poison Dart Frog
The blue poison dart frog is a subspecies of the poison dart frog, known for its intense blue hue. Its bright blue skin serves as a warning to predators.
3. Blue Tang
A visually appealing surgeonfish, the blue tang can be found in Indo-Pacific waters. Its upper body is primarily blue with black palettes, and its tail and lower body are yellow. The blue tang gained a lot of public appeal with the character of Dory in the Pixar animated movie “Finding Nemo”.
4. Cobalt Blue Tarantula
The cobalt blue tarantula is a beautiful spider, with its most notable feature being its iridescent legs. Despite its venom causing inflammation and muscle cramps, its beauty makes it a popular pet.
5. Common Agama
Male common agamas have a visually striking color palette – an orange head with a blue body and a tail with light stripes.
6. Common Collared Lizard
As its name might indicate, the first thing to catch someone’s eye when looking at a collared lizard is the series of black bands on its neck. Besides their black collars, males have bluish-green bodies, yellowish-orange throats, and yellow stripes on their tails.
7. Emerald Tree Boa
While adults have a beautiful green hue broken with white stripes, the juveniles have a completely different color, brick red to orange.
8. Golden Pheasant
Golden pheasants, the males specifically, are extremely beautiful. They have a golden crest and rump, a red body, and an orange “cape”, which they unfurl to attract mates.
9. Golden Snub-nosed Monkey
Both male and female golden snub-nosed monkeys have bright golden guard hairs, though the females have smaller guard hair than their male counterparts.
10. Gouldian Finch
Gouldian finches are an attractive combination of green, yellow, red, and black. The critical difference between the male and female finches is that the male’s chest is purple, while the female’s is mauve.
11. Indian Peafowl
The peacock, or male peafowl, has a beautiful blue neck and body and a trail of tail feathers covered with colorful eyespots.
12. Keel-billed Toucan
A beautiful toucan living in Latin America, the keel-billed toucan is black, with a yellow chest and a green bill with a red tip.
13. Lilac-breasted Roller
As its name indicates, the lilac-breasted roller has a deep lilac breast as well as an olive crown and a brown abdomen.
14. Loch’s Chromodoris
Loch’s chromodoris is a bluish-white sea slug with dark or black lines running down its body to the mantle and foot.
15. Madagascan Sunset Moth
This moth is black with iridescent blue, green, and red markings and a fringe of white scales on the edges of its wings.
16. Mandarin Duck
Male mandarin ducks are more pretty than their female counterparts, with red bills, purple chests with two white bars, and a whitish crescent above their eyes.
17. Mandarinfish
Mandarinfish are small fish species belonging to the family of dragonets. They are bright blue with swirly orange spots.
18. Mandrill
It is an Old World monkey whose body is a drab olive-brown. But its face has blue skin, and a red nose with the same color observed in the exposed rump and genital areas.
19. Painted Bunting
Sometimes referred to as the “most beautiful bird in North America”, the male painted bunting has a dark blue head, a green back, and a red rump and underparts.
20. Panther Chameleon
A chameleon found in Madagascar, the panther chameleon has several color morphs which appear to vary based on where they live. For instance, those in places like Ambanja, Ankify, and Nosy Be are a vibrant blue, while chameleons in Maroantsetra and Tamatave are generally red.
21. Paradise Tanager
The paradise tanager is a songbird living in the Amazon. It has a black upper body plumage, a light green head, and sky-blue underparts.
22. Peacock Mantis Shrimp
One of the more colorful mantis shrimps, the peacock mantis shrimp is green, with orange legs and leopard-like spots on its carapace.
23. Peacock Tarantula
The peacock tarantula is a critically endangered Old World tarantula known for the blue setae covering its body.
24. Rainbow Lorikeet
Rainbow lorikeets are beautiful birds who, as their names indicate, have plumage made up of feathers as varied as the colors of the rainbow.
25. Resplendent Quetzal
The largest species of trogon, the resplendent quetzal has plumage that appears to be bright green thanks to the iridescent feathers, but is in reality brown.
26. Ring-necked Snake
These snakes are dorsally olive brown and ventrally bright orange or red. They also have a neck band the same color as the ventral region.
27. Scarlet Macaw
Scarlet macaws have bright scarlet plumage, blue tail feathers, and yellow upper wing converts. They are one of the most popular birds in the world.
28. Yellow Boxfish
Yellow boxfish are a species of boxfish with yellow bodies and black spots. They are very popular as pets.
