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
- Eastern Lowland OlingoDeep Cut85points
- Eastern MeadowlarkDeep Cut85points
- Eastern OysterDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Pacific black chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Pacific Black GhostsharkDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Pacific bonefishDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Pacific bonitoDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Pacific fighting conchDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Pacific flagfinDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Pacific Giant ConchDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Pacific Long-beaked Common DolphinDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Pacific roughyDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Red-handed HowlerDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Striolated-PuffbirdDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Surf ChitonDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Tailed-BlueDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Tepui rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Whorltail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Wood-peweeDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Yellow-toothed CavyDeep Cut85points
- Eaton's skateDeep Cut85points
- Ebert's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Eburones SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Echina SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Echternacht's AmeivaDeep Cut85points
- Ecominga Montane RatDeep Cut85points
- Ecuador AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Ecuador banjo catfishDeep Cut85points
- Ecuador Blind SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Ecuador Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Ecuador Desert TeguDeep Cut85points
- Ecuador Frog-eating SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Ecuador horned treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Ecuador Leaf FrogDeep Cut85points
- Ecuador Mushroomtongue SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Ecuador PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Ecuador poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Ecuador Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Ecuador Silent FrogDeep Cut85points
- Ecuador SipoDeep Cut85points
- Ecuador skateDeep Cut85points
- Ecuador slender-legged treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Ecuador Snail-eaterDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadoran spiny-backed frogDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorean AkodontDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorean Cotton RatDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorean Crab-eating RatDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorean Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorean Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorean Mountain MouseDeep 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.