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
- Deer flyDeep Cut85points
- Deer-faced coryDeep Cut85points
- Degenhardt's Scorpion-eating SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Degerbol's blind snakeDeep Cut85points
- Degranville's rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- DeguDeep Cut85points
- Deichmann's Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Dejected SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Dekeyser's nectar batDeep Cut85points
- Dekeyseria sp. L052Deep Cut85points
- Delalande SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Delicate AmeivaDeep Cut85points
- Delicate barnacleDeep Cut85points
- Delicate cellariaDeep Cut85points
- Delicate Coral CrabDeep Cut85points
- Delicate hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Delicate Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Delicate Red-nosed Tree MouseDeep Cut85points
- Delicate Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Delicate Salt Flat MouseDeep Cut85points
- Delicate Sea SlugDeep Cut85points
- Delicate SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Delicate Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Delicate Swimming CrabDeep Cut85points
- Delicate SylphDeep Cut85points
- Delicate Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Delightful Donacaula MothDeep Cut85points
- Delineated SisterDeep Cut85points
- Delius' RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Delsman's flounderDeep Cut85points
- Delta Amacuro SofttailDeep Cut85points
- Delta AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Delta bonneted batDeep Cut85points
- Delta pikeblennyDeep Cut85points
- Delta-fronted SylphDeep Cut85points
- Deltoid Rock ShellDeep Cut85points
- Demarmels' SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Demea HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Demerara Falls treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Demeter LongwingDeep Cut85points
- Demini Leopard Cactus PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Demon eartheaterDeep Cut85points
- Demonic poison-arrow frogDeep Cut85points
- Dense-scale lantern sharkDeep Cut85points
- Dentate LucineDeep Cut85points
- Dentate SisterDeep Cut85points
- Derasa SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Derby's Woolly OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Derisor SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Dero ClearwingDeep 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.