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
- EelpoutDeep Cut85points
- Effusa SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Ega long-tongued batDeep Cut85points
- Eggers’ Pygmy Snapping AntDeep Cut85points
- Eggplant Leafroller MothDeep Cut85points
- Eggplant Webworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Egina DaggerwingDeep Cut85points
- Egma SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Ehrhardt's snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Eigenmann's anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Eigenmann's CercosauraDeep Cut85points
- Eigenmann's toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Eight-barred Lygropia MothDeep Cut85points
- Eight-rib EmarginulaDeep Cut85points
- Eight-spot MothDeep Cut85points
- Eight-spotted Flea BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Eight-spotted LongtailDeep Cut85points
- Eighteen-scaled WormDeep Cut85points
- Eighty butterflyDeep Cut85points
- Eileen's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Eirunepe snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Eiselt's CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- El Ávila glass frogDeep Cut85points
- El Boquerón rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- El Cairo glass frogDeep Cut85points
- El Carmelo Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- El Cedro Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- El Centro CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- El Chape toadDeep Cut85points
- El Chuscal glass frogDeep Cut85points
- El Cóndor glass frogDeep Cut85points
- El Dorado Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- El Mene treefrogDeep Cut85points
- El Oro ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- El Pahuma RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- El Pepino treefrogDeep Cut85points
- El Reventador CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- El Tambo CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- El Tambo marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- El Tambo stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- El Topo Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- El Tovar glass frogDeep Cut85points
- ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Elastic eelDeep Cut85points
- Elaudia Bent-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Eldorado broad-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Eldorado spinythumb frogDeep Cut85points
- Eldorado tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Electric lantern fishDeep Cut85points
- Electric rayDeep 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.