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

Darvish's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
Darwin's foxDeep Cut85points
Darwin's HocicudoDeep Cut85points
Darwin's Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
Darwin's MoleDeep Cut85points
Dashe's Nectar BatDeep Cut85points
Dassie ratDeep Cut85points
Daubenton's MyotisDeep Cut85points
Daubenton's Winged-mouse BatDeep Cut85points
Daurian Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
Daurian HedgehogDeep Cut85points
Daurian PikaDeep Cut85points
Davao SquirrelDeep Cut85points
David's MyotisDeep Cut85points
David's Spiny BandicootDeep Cut85points
Davies's Big-eared BatDeep Cut85points
Davis's Round-eared BatDeep Cut85points
Davis's Tent-making BatDeep Cut85points
Davison's Mastiff BatDeep Cut85points
Davy's Naked-backed BatDeep Cut85points
Dawn batDeep Cut85points
Day's Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
Day's ShrewDeep Cut85points
Dayak Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
De Graaff's Soft-furred MouseDeep Cut85points
De Vis's Woolly RatDeep Cut85points
De Vivo's Disk-winged BatDeep Cut85points
De Winton's Brown-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
De Winton's Golden MoleDeep Cut85points
De Winton's Long-eared SerotineDeep Cut85points
Decken's Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
Decken's SifakaDeep Cut85points
Dekeyser's Nectar BatDeep Cut85points
Delany's Swamp MouseDeep Cut85points
Delicate DeermouseDeep Cut85points
Delicate Montane MouseDeep Cut85points
Delicate MouseDeep Cut85points
Delicate Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
Delicate Red-nosed Tree MouseDeep Cut85points
Delicate Salt Flat MouseDeep Cut85points
Delicate Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
Delicate Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
Delta Bonneted BatDeep Cut85points
Demidoff's Dwarf GalagoDeep Cut85points
Demonic Tube-nosed Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
Dent's Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
Dent's MonkeyDeep Cut85points
Dent's Vlei RatDeep Cut85points
Dent's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
Deppe's SquirrelDeep 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.