What is your favorite....?

Antelope:Bongo
Monkey:Wolf´s mona monkey
Rhino:Sumatran
Small cat: Flat headed
Big cat: Snow leopard
Elephant: Asian
Parrot: Chattering lory
Hornbill:Sulu
Ape:Bonobo
Canine: Fennec fox
Pinniped:Hooded seal
Crocodilian: Mugger
Lizard phillippine sailfin
Marsupial: Mountain pygmy opossum
Bear polar
Rodent: Chinchilla
Tapir:Malayan
Lemur: Fat tailed dwarf
 
Antelope: Lowland Nyala
Monkey: Eastern Black-and-White Colobus
Rhino: Indian Rhinoceros
Small Cat: Pallas' Cat
Big Cat: Amur Tiger
Elephant: Asian Elephant
Parrot: Kea
Hornbill: Rhinoceros Hornbill
Ape: Bonobo
Canine: African Wild Dog
Pinniped: Grey Seal
Crocodilian: Saltwater Crocodile
Lizard: Northern Blue Tongue Skink
Marsupial: Dusky Pademelon
Bear: Andean Bear
Rodent: Malayan Black Giant Squirrel
Tapir: Baird's Tapir
Lemur: Mongoose Lemur
 
Deer:Marsh
Squirrel: Cream-colored giant
Bat: Cuban flower
Stork: Marabou
Cetacean: Rissoś dolphin
Snake: Blood python
Raptor: Palm nut vulture
Zebra: Hartmans mountain
Hippo: Nile
Giraffe: Masai
Wild cattle: Tamaraw
Lesser ape: Pileated gibbon
New world monkey: Silvery marmoset
Sea lion: Galapagos
Bony fish: Megamouth shark
 
Pachyderm:Greater One-horned Rhino
Ratite:Southern Cassowary
Prosimian-Pygmy Slow Loris
Antelope:Blackbuck
Deer:Barashinga
Cetacean:Bottlenose Dolphin
Crane:Red-crowned Crane
Canine:Mexican Grey Wolf
Stork:Saddlebill Stork
Crocodilian:Saltwater Crocodile
Bear:Sloth Bear
Mustelid:Giant River Otter
Ape:White-handed Gibbon
Bovid:Forest Buffalo
Spider:Red-knee Tarantula
Monkey:Black-and White Colobus Monkey
Tortoise:Indian Star Tortoise
Goose:African Pygmy Goose
Pinniped:California Sea Lion
Pheasant:Reeve’s Pheasant
Marsupial:Tasmanian Devil
Giraffid:Okapi(Favorite Animal & Mammal)
Xenarthid:Giant Anteater
Rodent:American Beaver
Eagle:Crowned Eagle
Frog:Red-eyed Tree Frog(Favorite Amphibian)
Penguin:African Penguin
Parrot:Thick-bilked Parrot
Hornbill:Rhinoceros Hornbill
Salamander:Kaiser’s Newt
Lemur:Crowned Lemur
Corvid-Pied Crow
Hawk:Red-tailed
Vulture:Lappet-faced Vulture
Snake:King Cobra
Lizard:Komodo Dragon(Favorite Reptile)
Toad:Cane Toad
Other Bird of Prey:Ornate Hawk-Eagle
Ibis:Scarlet Ibis
Shark:Sand Tiger Shark(Favorite Fish)
Fish:Arapima
Turtle:Malaysian Giant Turtle
Cockatoo:Sulpher-crested Cockatoo(Favorite Bird)
Insect:American Burying Beetle
Heron:Goliath Heron
Bat:Giant Flying Fox
Invertebrate:Coconut Crab(Favorite Invertebrate)
Swan:Trumpeter Swan
 
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It is likely that there may be quite a few ties:
Afrothere - Aardvark
Perissodactyl - Malayan Tapir
Bovid - European Bison
Suid/Peccary - Chacoan Peccary
Pangolin - All of them
Deer - Roe Deer
Antelope - Gemsbok/Bontebok
Cat - Pallas’s Cat/Eurasian Lynx
Mongoose - White-Tailed Mongoose
Civet - Binturong
Mustelid - Tayra/any Marten
Otter - European River Otter/Smooth-Coates Otter
Canid - Dhole
Bear - Sun Bear
Rodent - Red Squirrel/Eurasian Beaver
Xenarthran - Linnaeus’s Two-Toed Sloth
Prosimian - Blue-Eyed Black Lemur/Red Bellied Lemur
New-World Monkey - Blond Capuchin/any Lion Tamarin
Old-World Monkey - Diana Monkey/Javan Langur
Ape - Silvery Gibbon
Bat - Long-Eared Bat
Marsupial - Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat
Large Bird - White Stork/Afroeurasian Cranes
Passerine - Bali Starling/Eurasian Hoopoe/Long-Tailed Tit/European Robin
Non-Passerine Flying Bird - Northern Bald Ibis
Bird of Prey - White-Tailed Eagle
Lizard - Blue-Spotted Tree Monitor
Chelonian - Western Hermann’s Tortoise
Snake - Black-Headed Python
Crocodylomorph - Gharial
Amphibian - Fire-Bellied Toad
 
Worm: Firecracker worm
Echinoderm: Crown of thorns sea star
Mollusk: Pacific giant octopus
Insect: Orchid mantis
Arachnid: Vinegaroon
Other arthropod: Horseshoe crabs
Cartilaginous fish: bonnethead shark
Teleost fish: clown triggerfish
Other bony fish: bichirs
Amphibian: Chinese giant salamander
Lizard: Mexican beaded lizard
Snake: rhinoceros viper
Turtle: matamata
Crocodilian: Indian gharial
Ratite: Southern cassowary
Penguin: yellow-eyed penguin
Stork (and similars): shoebill
Crane: West African crowned crane
Waterfowl: Mute swan
Other waterbirds: Peruvian pelican
Fowl: Capercaillie
Raptor: king vulture
Parrot: eclectus
Pigeon: crowned pigeons (gen. Goura)
Piciformes + coraciiformes: Keel-billed toucan
Passerine: Andean cock-of-the-rock
Other bird: Hoatzin
Monotreme: Long-beaked echidna
Marsupial: Yapok
Afrothere: Aardvark
"Edentate" (xenarthra + pholidota. Paraphyletic group, I know): Giant pangolin (followed by six-banded armadillo)
Insectivore: Pyrenean desman
Bat: spectral bat
Feliniform: Binturong
Caniform: Leopard seal
Perissodactyl: Indian rhinoceros
Bovine: East African oryx
Non-bovine artiodactyl: pronghorn
Scandente: Colugos
Rodent: Australian water rat
Prosimian: Northern greater galago
Monkey: owl monkeys
Ape: Sumatran orang-utan
 
CARTILAGINOUS FISH: Salmon Shark
CYPRINIFORM: Colorado Pikeminnow
SALMONID: Cutthroat Trout
PERCOMORPH: Redspotted Sunfish
OTHER FISH: Alligator Gar
AMPHIBIAN: Chinese Giant Salamander
CHAMELEON: Veiled Chameleon
AGAMID: Chinese Water Dragon
GECKO: Bauer's Chameleon Gecko
IGUANA: Marine Iguana
MONITOR: Green Tree Monitor
SNAKE: Blue Malayan Coral Snake
OTHER LEPIDOSAUR: Tuatara
TURTLE: Alligator Snapping Turtle
CROCODILIAN: Chinese Alligator
PALEOGNATH: Southern Cassowary
WATERFOWL: Hawaiian Goose
LANDFOWL: Himalayan Monal
CHARADRIIFORM: Snowy Plover
GRUIFORM: Whooping Crane
PENGUIN: Yellow-eyed Penguin
SULIFORM: Brandt's Cormorant
PELICANIFORM: Great Blue Heron
ACCIPITRIFORM: Philippine Eagle
OWL: Red Owl
CORACIIFORM: European Bee-eater
PICIFORM: Lewis's Woodpecker
FALCON: Crested Caracara
PARROT: Salmon-crested Cockatoo
PASSERINE: Golden-winged Warbler
OTHER BIRD:White-breasted Mesite
MARSUPIAL: Greater Bilby
XENARTHRAN: Screaming Hairy Armadillo
AFROTHERE: Black-and-rufous Sengi
LAGOMORPH: American Pika
PORCUPINE: Brazilian Prehensile-tailed Porcupine
SQUIRREL: Yellow-bellied Marmot
OTHER RODENT: Mountain Beaver
PROSIMIAN: Aye-aye
NEW WORLD MONKEY:
OLD WORLD MONKEY: Proboscis Monkey
APE: Sumatran Orangutan
BAT: Honduran White Bat
CANID: Red Wolf
BEAR: Asian Black Bear
PINNIPED: Ribbon Seal
PROCYONID: Ringtail
OTTER: Sea Otter
OTHER MUSTELID: Marbled Polecat
CAT, BIG: Amur Leopard
CAT, SMALL: Canada Lynx
OTHER CARNIVORAN: Ring-tailed Vontsira
RHINO: Sumatran Rhinoceros
TAPIR: Mountain Tapir
EQUID: Przewalski's Horse
DEER: Pere David's Deer
CATTLE: Kouprey
ANTELOPE: Scimitar-horned Oryx
CAPRINE: Bighorn Sheep
OTHER UNGULATE: Pronghorn
BALEEN WHALE: North Atlantic Right Whale
TOOTHED WHALE: Baiji
OTHER MAMMAL: Chinese Pangolin
 
Antelope- Sable antelope
Monkey- Vervet monkey
Rhinoceros- Southern white rhino
Small cat- Cheetah
Big cat- Tiger
Parrot- Scarlet macaw
Hornbill- Rhinoceros hornbill
Ape- Orangutan

Canid- Gray wolf
Lizard- Gila monster
Pinniped- Leopard seal
Crocodilian- Nile crocodile
Marsupial- Koala
Bear- Polar bear
Rodent- Beaver

Some additions

Lemur- Coquerel's sifaka
Fish- Garibaldi
Bird of prey- Great horned owl
Deer- Axis deer and moose
 
Using Jiger's post as a template, with some alterations and others removed if I don't particularly have a favourite of that type:

Mollusc: Mimic Octopus
Insect: Leafcutter Ant
Arachnid: Mexican Red-kneed Tarantula
Crustacean: Caribbean Hermit Crab
Cartilaginous Fish: Great Hammerhead Shark
Marine Bony Fish: Emperor Snapper
Freshwater Bony Fish: Koi Carp
Amphibian: Blue Poison Dart Frog
Lizard: Veiled Chameleon
Snake: Burmese Python
Turtle: Galapagos Giant Tortoise
Crocodilian: American Alligator
Ratite: Emu
Penguin: Humboldt Penguin
Waterfowl: Embden Goose
Galliforme: Indian Peafowl
Raptor: Peregrine Falcon
Parrot: Green-winged Macaw
Pigeon: Common Wood Pigeon
Passerine: Eurasian Bullfinch
Other bird: Rook
Monotreme: Platypus
Marsupial: Koala
Xenarthra: Giant Anteater
Bat: Pipistrelle Bat
Feline: Sumatran Tiger
Bear: Polar Bear
Canine: Dingo
Perissodactyl: Indian Rhinoceros
Bovine: European Bison
Non-bovine Artiodactyl: Reindeer
Rodent: Eurasian Red Squirrel
Prosimian: Ring-tailed Lemur
Monkey: Common Squirrel Monkey
Ape: Bornean Orangutan
 
Worm: Firecracker worm
Echinoderm: Crown of thorns sea star
Mollusk: Pacific giant octopus
Insect: Orchid mantis
Arachnid: Vinegaroon
Other arthropod: Horseshoe crabs
Cartilaginous fish: bonnethead shark
Teleost fish: clown triggerfish
Other bony fish: bichirs
Amphibian: Chinese giant salamander
Lizard: Mexican beaded lizard
Snake: rhinoceros viper
Turtle: matamata
Crocodilian: Indian gharial
Ratite: Southern cassowary
Penguin: yellow-eyed penguin
Stork (and similars): shoebill
Crane: West African crowned crane
Waterfowl: Mute swan
Other waterbirds: Peruvian pelican
Fowl: Capercaillie
Raptor: king vulture
Parrot: eclectus
Pigeon: crowned pigeons (gen. Goura)
Piciformes + coraciiformes: Keel-billed toucan
Passerine: Andean cock-of-the-rock
Other bird: Hoatzin
Monotreme: Long-beaked echidna
Marsupial: Yapok
Afrothere: Aardvark
"Edentate" (xenarthra + pholidota. Paraphyletic group, I know): Giant pangolin (followed by six-banded armadillo)
Insectivore: Pyrenean desman
Bat: spectral bat
Feliniform: Binturong
Caniform: Leopard seal
Perissodactyl: Indian rhinoceros
Bovine: East African oryx
Non-bovine artiodactyl: pronghorn
Scandente: Colugos
Rodent: Australian water rat
Prosimian: Northern greater galago
Monkey: owl monkeys
Ape: Sumatran orang-utan
Also, forgot to mention
Cetacean: False killer whale
 
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