Animal Identification Game

[birdsandbats]

Should I make this hard?

I don't think there's any way we can get this down species. It's a copepod, right? Probably genus Cyclops?

 

[CheeseChameleon1945]

I don't think there's any way we can get this down species. It's a copepod, right? Probably genus Cyclops?

It is a Copepod obviously, but nope, not in the genus cyclops.

 

[amur leopard]

Diacyclops thomasi? Only got this by looking through all the genera so not really an ID

 

[CheeseChameleon1945]

Diacyclops thomasi? Only got this by looking through all the genera so not really an ID

Actually, your right. Lucky guess!

 

[amur leopard]

Here we go:

 

[CheeseChameleon1945]

Okay, I know its a glass frog of some sort.. Im gonna go out on a limb here and guess its in the genus espadarana.

 

[amur leopard]

Okay, I know its a glass frog of some sort.. Im gonna go out on a limb here and guess its in the genus espadarana.

Nope.

 

[CheeseChameleon1945]

Fleischmann's glass frog?

 

[amur leopard]

Fleischmann's glass frog?

Nope

Clue - it was discovered relatively recently.

 

[CheeseChameleon1945]

Diane's bare-hearted glass frog.

 

[amur leopard]

Diane's bare-hearted glass frog.

Indeed, your turn

 

[CheeseChameleon1945]

 

[Tetzoo Quizzer]

Trichoniscus pusillus?

 

[CheeseChameleon1945]

Trichoniscus pusillus?

Nope.

 

[BerdNerd]

Common Striped Woodlouse (Philoscia muscorum)?

 

[birdsandbats]

Clearly a species of aquatic sowbug.

 

[CheeseChameleon1945]

Common Striped Woodlouse (Philoscia muscorum)?

Nope.

 

[CheeseChameleon1945]

Clearly a species of aquatic sowbug.

And no, not aquatic.

 

[birdsandbats]

And no, not aquatic.

Then how come the animal is clearly in water?

 

[CheeseChameleon1945]

Then how come the animal is clearly in water?

Its not. It just looks that way, its very reflective.

EDIT: Here is another photo in the same setting, you can tell its behind glass.