Krillion Recorded answers
19,412 recorded answers
How to approach it
The safest route is to ignore the animals that first spring to mind and work down the taxonomic tree instead. Pick a class, then a family within it, then a genus, and only then commit to a species; that descent carries you past the handful of famous creatures everyone shares and into the long tail where the record is thickest. Habitat works as a second filter, since the continent's forests, rivers, highlands, coasts and offshore depths each hold lineages that rarely surface in general nature writing. Precision matters as well: a proper binomial or a settled common name reads as a real identification, whereas a loose group label is likely to be judged too vague. When two candidates feel equally strong, take the one you have never met in a quiz before.
Get a hint
Begin with the sheer breadth of the continent's fauna: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, freshwater and marine fish, insects, arachnids, molluscs, crustaceans and worms all supply valid ground here.
A little more
Then narrow by lineage rather than by fame, favouring groups that diversified in place across the continent's forests, grasslands, highlands, rivers, coasts and surrounding seas.
One step further
Finish by choosing one exact, precisely named species or clearly recognised form rather than a family or a general type, and lean toward creatures with small ranges and thin literature.
Reveal answers 19,412
- Andes giant glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Andes Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Andes marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Andes stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Andes Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Andraemon SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Andrew Neild's PodelfinDeep Cut85points
- Andrews's Beaked WhaleDeep Cut85points
- Androgeus SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Andromica clearwingDeep Cut85points
- Anduzi's NannostomusDeep Cut85points
- Andy's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Angel hair wormDeep Cut85points
- Angel insectDeep Cut85points
- Angel sharkDeep Cut85points
- Angelo's SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- AngelwingDeep Cut85points
- Angled LeafwingDeep Cut85points
- Angled oliveDeep Cut85points
- Angled SulphurDeep Cut85points
- Anglefin whiffDeep Cut85points
- Angoulême microcaeciliaDeep Cut85points
- Angra dos Reis snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Angra dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Angra tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Angry MellanaDeep Cut85points
- Angular angel sharkDeep Cut85points
- Angular Brittle StarDeep Cut85points
- Angular Sea WhipDeep Cut85points
- Angular TritonDeep Cut85points
- Angulate Stingless BeeDeep Cut85points
- Angusta CrescentDeep Cut85points
- AnhingaDeep Cut85points
- AniDeep Cut85points
- Anita's Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Anitápolis livebearerDeep Cut85points
- Anius MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Anker's Peppermint ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Annellated Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Annette's HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Annex AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Annulated GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Annulated Tree BoaDeep Cut85points
- AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Anomalous CercosauraDeep Cut85points
- anomalous enacrosomeDeep Cut85points
- Anomalous glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Anomalous lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Anopheles mosquitoDeep Cut85points
- Anori stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here is almost flat: of 19,397 accepted entries, 19,072 sit at 85 points, so the grade reflects how rare a guess is far more than the merits of the animal itself. A single entry reached 100, which is what happens when almost nobody else names that species; the 280 entries at 60 are the ones a large share of players converge on, so familiarity costs points. Species-level names dominate the 85 band — the sample runs from Olinguito (100) through 88 butterfly (85), Abakapa rain frog (85) and Abyssal assfish (85) to Acorn Woodpecker (85) and Acouchi (85). That band mixes insects, frogs, deep-sea fish, birds and mammals without hierarchy, which shows the reference list is taxonomic rather than popularity-based. Betting on a narrowly endemic, recently described or hard-to-spell form is the dependable way to hold 85; reaching 100 takes something almost no other player will propose.