Name a mammal smaller than a house cat - Krillion Answers 2026-10-20

6,515 recorded names on October 20, 2026, 6,298 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Aim for species-level names from the groups that pack the most tiny bodies per genus — the further you go down a field-guide index, the better the payoff. Any living mammal species whose adult body mass typically stays well under that of a domestic cat counts; single-word catch-all labels for whole groups score far less than a proper species name.

Recorded answers

6,515 recorded answers

How to approach it

Work from size classes instead of from memory of famous animals. Sketch the handful of mammalian orders in which adults commonly weigh under a few hundred grams, then walk each order's family list and pull one or two names per family. Field-guide indexes, national species checklists and museum collection catalogues are the richest sources, because they supply the long descriptive names that casual players never reach. Build a long list rather than a short one: quantity matters here, so aim for twenty or thirty candidates before you start judging them. Where a species has several common names, submit the most formal one. Finally, keep an eye on spelling, since hyphenated and transliterated forms are usually accepted.

Get a hint

Start from body mass rather than from familiarity: list the mammalian orders in which adults routinely weigh less than a few hundred grams, then work downward through them.

A little more

Harvest names from regional mammal checklists and museum species lists; long compound common names built from a place plus a body feature are a strong signal of a valid, rarely given entry.

One step further

Chase the oddities too: species known from a single mountain range, a cave survey or a recent taxonomic revision often carry the highest value, and hyphenated or transliterated forms are accepted.

Reveal answers 6,515

Small Mexican Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
Small Mindoro Forest MouseDeep Cut85points
Small Red-nosed Tree MouseDeep Cut85points
Small Rufous Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
Small Sangihe CuscusDeep Cut85points
Small Short-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
Small spiny ratDeep Cut85points
Small Sulawesi CuscusDeep Cut85points
Small Sun SquirrelDeep Cut85points
Small Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
Small Water RatDeep Cut85points
Small white-winged flying foxDeep Cut85points
Small Woolly BatDeep Cut85points
Small Yungas HocicudoDeep Cut85points
Small-eared Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
Small-eared RatDeep Cut85points
Small-eared Water RatDeep Cut85points
Small-footed DeermouseDeep Cut85points
Small-footed White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
Small-toothed Ferret-badgerDeep Cut85points
Small-toothed Forest HedgehogDeep Cut85points
Small-toothed Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
Small-toothed Harvest MouseDeep Cut85points
Small-toothed Long-eared BatDeep Cut85points
Small-toothed MoleDeep Cut85points
Small-toothed Palm CivetDeep Cut85points
Small-toothed Sportive LemurDeep Cut85points
Smith's Brown-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
Smith's Bush SquirrelDeep Cut85points
Smith's Red Rock HareDeep Cut85points
Smith's Red-backed VoleDeep Cut85points
Smith's Woolly BatDeep Cut85points
Smith's ZokorDeep Cut85points
Smithers's Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
Smoke-bellied White-bellied RatDeep Cut85points
Smoky BatDeep Cut85points
Smoky Flying SquirrelDeep Cut85points
Smoky Forest MouseDeep Cut85points
Smoky Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
Smoky Mountain VoleDeep Cut85points
Smoky Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
Smoky Pocket GopherDeep Cut85points
Smoky ShrewDeep Cut85points
Smoky White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
Snake River Plains Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
Snethlage's Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
Snethlage's MarmosetDeep Cut85points
Snow Mountain Large-clawed ShrewDeep Cut85points
Snow Mountain Shrew MoleDeep Cut85points
Snow Mountains Grassland Mosaic-tailed RatDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

Almost every entry in the reveal lands in the same high band, which tells you the puzzle rewards reach rather than precision: 6,485 of the 6,514 recorded answers cleared sixty points, and 6,295 of those sat at eighty-five. That middle tier is where competent, well-read answers live — the long descriptive species names that fill a museum checklist, such as Abert's Squirrel or Aba Horseshoe Bat, both worth eighty-five. The hundred-point pair sit apart because they are nearly impossible to arrive at by brainstorming: a single-species family described from a very limited range, and a small animal whose spine is famously reinforced, each rewarding whoever had read up on a taxonomic curiosity. Only 188 answers fell to sixty, presumably the everyday small mammals most players produce first. The lesson is that obscurity, not correctness, moves the score: a household name is valid but cheap, while a name almost nobody else can recall pays the maximum.