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
- Ecuadorean Mountain ViscachaDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorean Purple TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorean Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorean Spiny Pocket MouseDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorean tailless batDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorean TapetiDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorean Water RatDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian BirdeaterDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian brownvelvet tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian CaciqueDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian Deep-sea ScorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian Eyelash-PitviperDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian forest toadDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian FritillaryDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian fruit-eating batDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian Ground DoveDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian Hermit CrabDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian HillstarDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian Horned FrogDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian leaflitter frogDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian little yellow batDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian long-tongued batDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian MilksnakeDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian Orange TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian PiculetDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian PiedtailDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian Red Bloom TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian sac-winged batDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian Squirrel MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian Toad-headed PitviperDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian TrogonDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian worm salamanderDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian yellow tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Eden Harbour toadDeep Cut85points
- Edge LeafwingDeep Cut85points
- Edible Chilean Sea UrchinDeep Cut85points
- Edible sea squirtDeep Cut85points
- Edlich's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Edward's Bark ScorpionDeep Cut85points
- Edward’s Middle American AmeivaDeep Cut85points
- Edwards spider crabDeep Cut85points
- Edwards' rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Edwards's Long-clawed MouseDeep Cut85points
- Eel coryDeep Cut85points
- Eelgrass blennyDeep 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.