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
- Dusky-throated HermitDeep Cut85points
- Duskycheek tonguefishDeep Cut85points
- DuskywingDeep Cut85points
- Dusty Lichen CicadaDeep Cut85points
- Dusty SkimmerDeep Cut85points
- Dutch Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Duviols' PenelfinDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf batfishDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf blennyDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf boaDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf Brittle StarDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf caimanDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf Chilean Flame TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf codlingDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf Cup CoralDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf dog-faced batDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf doryDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf Fat-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf frog shellDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf frogfishDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf fruit-eating batDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf geckoDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf GliderDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf goatfishDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf hatchetfishDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf Keyhole LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf lantern sharkDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf little fruit batDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf marbled catfishDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf Mini-Oil diggerDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf mulletDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf orb weaverDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf panaqueDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf pencilfishDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf pike cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf Pink Leg TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf PlanaxisDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf round herringDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf sand perchDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf sauryDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf Sea CucumberDeep 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.