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
- Divergent Nightshade WeevilDeep Cut85points
- Dividing Sea StarDeep Cut85points
- Diving beetleDeep Cut85points
- Diving lizardDeep Cut85points
- Diving petrelDeep Cut85points
- Dixon's AnotosauraDeep Cut85points
- Dixon's BachiaDeep Cut85points
- Dixon's ground snakeDeep Cut85points
- Dixon's Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Dixon's striped fireflyDeep Cut85points
- DobsonflyDeep Cut85points
- Doc Bale's ArkDeep Cut85points
- DoctorfishDeep Cut85points
- Dodava HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Doello jurado's spongeDeep Cut85points
- Doflein's lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Dog snapperDeep Cut85points
- Dog-faced batDeep Cut85points
- Dog-head TritonDeep Cut85points
- Dog-like batDeep Cut85points
- DogfaceDeep Cut85points
- Dogface witch eelDeep Cut85points
- Dognin's SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Dogteeth weakfishDeep Cut85points
- Dogtooth grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Dogtooth herringDeep Cut85points
- Dogtooth lampfishDeep Cut85points
- Dolium HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Dolores Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Dolphin cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Dolphin GullDeep Cut85points
- Dolylas HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Dominique's PenelfinDeep Cut85points
- Don Simón rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- DonacobiusDeep Cut85points
- Donkey Dung Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Donkey Thorny OysterDeep Cut85points
- Donnelly's arthrosauraDeep Cut85points
- Donoso-Barros' Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Dora SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- DoradaDeep Cut85points
- DoraditoDeep Cut85points
- DoradoDeep Cut85points
- Dorantes LongtailDeep Cut85points
- Dorbigny's BachiaDeep Cut85points
- Dorbigny's BlackheadDeep Cut85points
- Dorbigny's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Dorilis MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Doris LongwingDeep Cut85points
- Doris' lime treefrogDeep 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.