Trevor Chan — Taxonomica

12 Taxonomica

software

Overview

Taxonomica is an interactive guessing game where you identify a mystery species by navigating the full taxonomic tree of life. Starting from a redacted Wikipedia description, you work through Kingdom → Phylum → Class → Order → Family → Genus → Species to zero in on the hidden organism.

Implementation

Play the game here. Taxonomic data is sourced from the NCBI taxonomy database, giving coverage across the full tree of life — from bacteria and archaea to plants, fungi, and animals.

Source code: github.com/trevor-chan/taxonomica