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
- Difficult Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Difficult SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Difoliate OrbweaverDeep Cut85points
- Digger beeDeep Cut85points
- Digger waspDeep Cut85points
- Digitate cusk eelDeep Cut85points
- Digitate Thorny OysterDeep Cut85points
- Diguet's PleurobranchusDeep Cut85points
- Diluted SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Dimera SulphurDeep Cut85points
- Dimidiatus SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Diminutive myotisDeep Cut85points
- Diminutive serotineDeep Cut85points
- Diminutive worm eelDeep Cut85points
- Dimorphic Lichen CicadaDeep Cut85points
- Dimorphic Macalla MothDeep Cut85points
- Dimorphic Tosale MothDeep Cut85points
- Dinelli's DoraditoDeep Cut85points
- Dingy MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Dingy PurplewingDeep Cut85points
- Dinira Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Dinora MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Diogenes lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Diomedes' SapsuckerDeep Cut85points
- DipperDeep Cut85points
- Dirce BeautyDeep Cut85points
- Dirty bandit coryDeep Cut85points
- Dirty RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Dirty spiny sea cradleDeep Cut85points
- Dirty thicklip thornycatDeep Cut85points
- Disc Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Disc web spiderDeep Cut85points
- Discoid RoachDeep Cut85points
- Disconnexa SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Discovery Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- DiscusDeep Cut85points
- Discus rayDeep Cut85points
- Discus tetraDeep Cut85points
- Disdained Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Disjunct SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Disjunct YellowDeep Cut85points
- Disk DosiniaDeep Cut85points
- Disk tetraDeep Cut85points
- Disk-winged batDeep Cut85points
- Distinguished Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Distinguished Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Distogray CalephelisDeep Cut85points
- Ditzler's DarnerDeep Cut85points
- Diuca FinchDeep Cut85points
- Divaricate Hairy-eyed Sweat BeeDeep 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.