Metazooa

Metazooa Taxonomy Guide – Animal Names and Shared Ancestors

Compare two animals’ common ancestor

Choose any two animals from the actual game dictionary. The comparison uses the same fixed ENA classification snapshot as the puzzle.

Deepest shared classification: Euteleostomi

African bush elephant and African gray parrot share 5 classification nodes. This measures the stored classification path, not time or genetic similarity.

See their shared classification path
  1. Metazoa · animals
  2. Chordata · chordates
  3. Craniata
  4. Vertebrata · vertebrates
  5. Euteleostomi

Search the accepted animals

130 animals

Use classification clues in Metazooa

Start broad, then stay inside the best branch

A mammal, bird or invertebrate can quickly reveal a useful high-level split. Once a guess shares Carnivora, explore cats, dogs, bears or related carnivores instead of returning to birds or fish.

Use examples from the real snapshot

Lion and tiger share Panthera; cat and lion share Felidae; lion and dog share Carnivora. Each deeper shared prefix narrows the branch. Labels may repeat at different source ranks, as with Bombus; the game keeps those nodes distinct by their full path.

Know the animal dictionary

The game uses a curated collection rather than every species on Earth. Search the actual list below. Some broad common names are ambiguous, so scientific names and precise common labels are shown alongside each result.

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