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
- Downy blennyDeep Cut85points
- Drab Atlantic Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Drab Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Drab HemispingusDeep Cut85points
- Drab Lightbulb LizardDeep Cut85points
- Drab SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Drab Shade LizardDeep Cut85points
- Drab soleDeep Cut85points
- Drab tonguefishDeep Cut85points
- Drab Water TyrantDeep Cut85points
- Drab-breasted Pygmy-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Dracula AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Dragon fin coryDeep Cut85points
- Dragon Hi Fin PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Dragon MantisDeep Cut85points
- Dragon of TorresDeep Cut85points
- Dragon of Torres-MuraDeep Cut85points
- Dragon-headed BugDeep Cut85points
- DragonetDeep Cut85points
- Dragonfin tetraDeep Cut85points
- DragonfishDeep Cut85points
- DragonletDeep Cut85points
- Draudt's HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Draudt's MyscelusDeep Cut85points
- Dressy Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Driftwood catfishDeep Cut85points
- Drogon's SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Drop KnifefishDeep Cut85points
- Druce's Underleaf ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Dry Chaco Fat-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Dryland Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Drylands tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Drylands Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Drymo SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Duarte's snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Duas Barras dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Duas Barras spinythumb frogDeep Cut85points
- Duas Barras white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Dubia roachDeep Cut85points
- Dubious CerithDeep Cut85points
- Dubious Hairy-WoodborerDeep Cut85points
- Dubois's SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Dubost's Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Ducal ArcasDeep Cut85points
- Duck Foot Snouted FrogDeep Cut85points
- Duck-billed eelDeep Cut85points
- Duckbill barracudinaDeep Cut85points
- Duckbill catfishDeep Cut85points
- Duckbill flatheadDeep Cut85points
- Duckbill oceanic 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.