Animal connect wall

Question

I made a connect wall about animals:

tarsier         ascidian           aye-aye       

caecilian       diplocaulus        bird

marsupial       amphiuma           hagfish

fish            lamprey            mammals

There are 4 categories containing 3 words each.

Category 1 hint:

A type of cap and gown

Category 2 hint:

any animal with a backbone

Would you consider giving a few hints? (but don't give it all away) — hat, Dec 27 '18 at 15:38

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 25 '18 at 01:07

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I think it’s:

tarsier, aye-aye, hagfish, lamprey: these are common name species of animals

Then:

Ascidian, caecilian, diplocaulus, amphiuma: these are Latin classifications of animals

And finally:

Bird, marsupial, fish, mammals: these are common names of animal classes

answered Dec 25 '18 at 01:07

El-Guest

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Nice try! It is 4 groups of 3 and they are all a bit off – Dec 25 '18 at 10:03

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 27 '18 at 08:17

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An attempt, most likely some wrong:

Caecilians, diplocaulus and amphiuma are all groups of amphibians
Ascidian, hagfish, lamprey are all sea creatures (two fish and a sea squirt)
Aye-aye and tarsier are both lemurs, and both mammals
I would have said bird, mammal, fish here, as these are the major divisions, however the two animals in point three are not marsupials, so that is the only word left

answered Dec 27 '18 at 08:17

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Nice try! Not quite though – Dec 27 '18 at 08:54
+1 for getting 1 group correct – Omega Krypton Dec 27 '18 at 17:40
@OmegaKrypton Thanks. I wonder which one... – hat Dec 27 '18 at 19:08
I guess group 1 is the correct one – Omega Krypton Dec 28 '18 at 09:51

Brandon_J · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-01T20:14:50.823

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OK, my answer was getting long. If you want to see my other tries, look at the edit history. Here goes another shot!

nocturnal animals - marsupial, tarsier, aye-aye. chordates - hagfish, lamprey, ascidian. amphibians - diplocaulus, amphiuma, caecilian. vertebrates - birds, fish, mammals.

Now technically my second and fourth classes could switch some, since (

Despite not having a backbone, hagfish are considered vertebrates. Lampreys are vertebrates as well, if I remember correctly.

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edited Jan 01 '19 at 20:14

answered Dec 29 '18 at 21:43

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how was my new try? – Brandon_J Dec 30 '18 at 19:52
still a bit of. – Dec 30 '18 at 20:19
ahhhhhh!!! Now we're talking. Though I still have no clue how the cap and gown is related lol – Brandon_J Dec 31 '18 at 02:11
3/4 the other category is correct just hasn’t got the right name – Dec 31 '18 at 09:43
close, chordates, and nocturnal animals are correct. The other groups have the wrong names and maybe animals. Hint: you were right before the edit – Dec 31 '18 at 16:16
I mean the name of the group nocturnal animals and chordates are correct – Dec 31 '18 at 16:17
wait I was right before which edit? – Brandon_J Dec 31 '18 at 19:57
The name nocturnal animals and chordates are correct – Dec 31 '18 at 20:04
nocturnal animals, chordates phibi* v*ebr** – Dec 31 '18 at 20:34
lol it bolded your "++phibi+++". I was so confused. So wait, my first try had 2 category names right? – Brandon_J Jan 01 '19 at 20:00
yes that is correct – Jan 01 '19 at 20:11
How can "marsupial" be categorised as an animal, or nocturnal? It's an infraclass of animals with a very broad range of behaviours. – ekhumoro Jan 01 '19 at 20:40
Well, the numbat is the only marsupial active during the day, so I figured that "marsupial" at large could fit here. He also said that the nocturnal category name was correct, and I didn't see anything else that fit. – Brandon_J Jan 01 '19 at 20:42
@Brandon_J Congrats! – Jan 01 '19 at 20:44
I did it???!?!?! yay! – Brandon_J Jan 01 '19 at 20:44
Good puzzle, btw. and thanks for all those hints haha – Brandon_J Jan 01 '19 at 20:44
@Brandon_J Kangaroos, koalas, wallabies, wombats, etc, etc, are all diurnal marsupials. – ekhumoro Jan 01 '19 at 20:45
OK. Looked at https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/marsupial (first google result for my search) and saw "The numbat is the only marsupial active during the day—all others are nocturnal or crepuscular." Maybe they meant to say that it was the only one active only during the day. My bad, though. – Brandon_J Jan 01 '19 at 20:49

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