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
- Dashed livebearerDeep Cut85points
- Davara Scrub-HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- David's angelsharkDeep Cut85points
- Davies's big-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Davison's mastiff batDeep Cut85points
- Davy's naked-backed batDeep Cut85points
- Dawn tetraDeep Cut85points
- Day's Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Dazzling GlasswingDeep Cut85points
- De Ávila Pires's Humming FrogDeep Cut85points
- De Jong's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- De Vivo's disk-winged batDeep Cut85points
- Dead man's fingerDeep Cut85points
- Deadwood Borer MothDeep Cut85points
- Death-mask SpurwingDeep Cut85points
- Decca SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Deceptive MeliponaDeep Cut85points
- Decinea SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Decora SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Decorated splitfin gobyDeep Cut85points
- Decorated Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- decussate bittersweet clamDeep Cut85points
- Decussate distorsioDeep Cut85points
- Decussate Worm ShellDeep Cut85points
- Dedecora SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Deep Sea Giant Hermit CrabDeep Cut85points
- Deep shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Deep-Blue Eyed-MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Deep-blue MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Deep-bodied pipefishDeep Cut85points
- Deep-dwelling morayDeep Cut85points
- Deep-green HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Deep-sea lizardfishDeep Cut85points
- Deep-sea skateDeep Cut85points
- Deep-water catsharkDeep Cut85points
- Deep-water coral clamDeep Cut85points
- Deep-water drumDeep Cut85points
- Deepbody boarfishDeep Cut85points
- Deepreef scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Deepscale slickheadDeep Cut85points
- Deepwater congerDeep Cut85points
- Deepwater dabDeep Cut85points
- Deepwater flounderDeep Cut85points
- Deepwater lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Deepwater Sea FanDeep Cut85points
- Deepwater serranoDeep Cut85points
- Deepwater slipskinDeep Cut85points
- Deepwater squirrelfishDeep Cut85points
- Deepwater tonguefishDeep Cut85points
- Deepwater worm eelDeep 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.