A strange subdivision of Linnaeus's Regnum animale

• Hydra
• Rana-Piscis (a South American frog, Pseudis paradoxa)
• Monoceros (unicorn)
• Pelecanus: (pelicans)
• Satyrus
• Borometz (Scythian Lamb)
• Phoenix
• Bernicla (barnacle-goose tree)
• Draco (a snake body, two feet, and batty wings)
• Automa Mortis (death watch beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum)
• Manticora
• Antilope
• Lamia
• Siren

Later in Amoenitates he added other strangeness

• Homo troglodyte (cave dweller)
• Homo ferus (four-footed, mute, hairy, feral children)
• Juvenis lupinus hessensis (wolf-boys)
• Juvenis hannoveranus (Peter of Hanover)
• Puella campanica (Wild-girl of Champaigne)
• Homo monstrosous (agile and fainthearted, the Patagonian giant, the dwarf of the Alps, and the monorchid Hottentot (This last one is not a fave, it's racist!))