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
- Dark-edged Eusarca MothDeep Cut85points
- Dark-faced Ground-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Dark-fronted DasherDeep Cut85points
- Dark-furred AkodontDeep Cut85points
- Dark-marked WaveDeep Cut85points
- Dark-patched SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Dark-saddled DarnerDeep Cut85points
- Dark-sided CalligrapherDeep Cut85points
- Dark-spot CadlinaDeep Cut85points
- Dark-spot mojarraDeep Cut85points
- Dark-spotted Palthis MothDeep Cut85points
- Dark-spotted thin-toed frogDeep Cut85points
- Dark-throated SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Dark-winged CanasteroDeep Cut85points
- Dark-winged MinerDeep Cut85points
- Dark-winged TrumpeterDeep Cut85points
- Darkened CrescentDeep Cut85points
- Darker Diacme MothDeep Cut85points
- Darkfin jawfishDeep Cut85points
- Darkling beetleDeep Cut85points
- Darksaddle blennyDeep Cut85points
- Darkside pumpkin toadletDeep Cut85points
- Darkspotted catfishDeep Cut85points
- DarnerDeep Cut85points
- DarterDeep Cut85points
- Darter characinDeep Cut85points
- Darter characineDeep Cut85points
- Darter gobyDeep Cut85points
- Darter tetraDeep Cut85points
- DartwhiteDeep Cut85points
- Darwin Wallace poison-frogDeep Cut85points
- Darwin's beetleDeep Cut85points
- Darwin's FoxDeep Cut85points
- Darwin's FrogDeep Cut85points
- Darwin's HocicudoDeep Cut85points
- Darwin's iguanaDeep Cut85points
- Darwin's Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Darwin's Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Darwin's Marked GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Darwin's NothuraDeep Cut85points
- Darwin's Ringed Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Darwin's sanddabDeep Cut85points
- Darwin's slimeheadDeep Cut85points
- Darwin's Stiletto FlyDeep Cut85points
- Darwin's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Dash gobyDeep Cut85points
- Dash-dot TetraDeep Cut85points
- Dashe's nectar batDeep Cut85points
- Dashed catfishDeep Cut85points
- Dashed knifefishDeep 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.