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
- Dwarf sheet spiderDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf sicklefin chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf smooth-houndDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf Sperm WhaleDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf squirrelDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf swamp frogDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf Tawny WaveDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf Tiger LucineDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf Tyrant-manakinDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf Violet SnailDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Dyar's Lichen MothDeep Cut85points
- Dyar's MyscelusDeep Cut85points
- Dyar's SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Dyeing poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Dyson's Keyhole LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Dyson's SilverpatchDeep Cut85points
- Dyson's WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- ear ancillaDeep Cut85points
- Eared arkDeep Cut85points
- Eared DoveDeep Cut85points
- Eared Pygmy-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Earless Water MouseDeep Cut85points
- Earspot cusk eelDeep Cut85points
- Earth snakeDeep Cut85points
- EarthcreeperDeep Cut85points
- EartheaterDeep Cut85points
- East Amazonian Fire-eyeDeep Cut85points
- East Andean AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- East Brazilian ChachalacaDeep Cut85points
- East Pacific codletDeep Cut85points
- East Pacific Land CrabDeep Cut85points
- East Pacific Sea SkaterDeep Cut85points
- East-Mexican acacia skipperDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Amazonian Dwarf PorcupineDeep Cut85points
- Eastern AugerDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Black-handed TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Eastern CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Cordillera Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Eastern cordilleran nectar batDeep Cut85points
- Eastern CottontailDeep Cut85points
- Eastern giant glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Eastern glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Greater Long-nosed ArmadilloDeep Cut85points
- Eastern KingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Lineodes MothDeep 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.