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
- Ant Sheet-web WeaverDeep Cut85points
- Ant spiderDeep Cut85points
- Ant tanagerDeep Cut85points
- Ant-decapitating flyDeep Cut85points
- Ant-loving tenebDeep Cut85points
- Ant-mimicking TreehopperDeep Cut85points
- Antado rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Antarctic armless flounderDeep Cut85points
- Antarctic AscidianDeep Cut85points
- Antarctic deepsea smeltDeep Cut85points
- Antarctic escolarDeep Cut85points
- Antarctic Flying SquidDeep Cut85points
- Antarctic Minke WhaleDeep Cut85points
- Antarctic PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Antarctic PrionDeep Cut85points
- Antarctic rock sea cucumberDeep Cut85points
- Antarctic Stalked JellyDeep Cut85points
- Antarctic starry skateDeep Cut85points
- Antarctic Sun StarDeep Cut85points
- Antarctic TernDeep Cut85points
- AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Antenna codletDeep Cut85points
- Anthony's poison arrow frogDeep Cut85points
- Anthony's Woolly Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Anthracinus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Antias FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Antillean File ClamDeep Cut85points
- Antillean Glassy BubbleDeep Cut85points
- Antillean Hermit CrabDeep Cut85points
- Antillean NighthawkDeep Cut85points
- Antillean ScallopDeep Cut85points
- Antillean smooth-headDeep Cut85points
- Antillean snake eelDeep Cut85points
- Antillean SpheniaDeep Cut85points
- Antilles frillfinDeep Cut85points
- Antilles Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Antilles LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Antinoe CatoneDeep Cut85points
- Antioquia anoleDeep Cut85points
- Antioquia beaked toadDeep Cut85points
- Antioquia Bristle-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Antioquia BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Antioquia CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Antioquia giant glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Antioquia glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Antioquia leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Antioquia marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Antioquia WrenDeep Cut85points
- Antioquian sac-winged batDeep Cut85points
- Antipodean albatrossDeep 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.