Highly amusing web quiz about naming animals
This web quiz, "list animals until failure," is good shit.
It uses Wikipedia as a data source and will accept any animal with a wikipedia page. It distinguishes between "more specific animals" and "less specific animals," which I gather means that if you use the common name for a genus of animals, it will be replaced by specific names for species within that genus.
While playing, the game will correct some of your inputs to a more specific or formal species or common name. But it doesn't always! Wikipedia is a vast and highly useful but fundamentally pretty inconsistent dataset, despite its editors' hard labor and best intentions. I'd be really curious to see what the data for this site actually looks like.
iNaturalist has a much more extensive taxonomic dataset - I named a couple animals I'm familiar with from iNaturalist which this quiz did not recognize - and has a huge amount of information about what the different common names for various species actually are. I'm curious whether iNaturalist data could be used to translate a game like this into other languages which have their own listed common names.
Anyway, I got 195 animals. My tip for you: dinosaurs and extinct ancestral human species count!!