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
- Electron subantarcticDeep Cut85points
- Elegant AnterosDeep Cut85points
- Elegant ArkDeep Cut85points
- Elegant corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Elegant CrescentchestDeep Cut85points
- Elegant Crested-TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Elegant dosiniaDeep Cut85points
- Elegant Fat-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Elegant feather starDeep Cut85points
- Elegant forest treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Elegant Hermit CrabDeep Cut85points
- Elegant pencilfishDeep Cut85points
- Elegant Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Elegant Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Elegant Sea AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Elegant stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Elegant TernDeep Cut85points
- Elegant TheopeDeep Cut85points
- Elegant WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Elegant Zebra PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Elegant-spined Atlantic Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Eleodor's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Elephant beetleDeep Cut85points
- Elephant Ear Sea FanDeep Cut85points
- Elephant Ear SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Elephant mosquitoDeep Cut85points
- Elephant Water FleaDeep Cut85points
- Eleuchia LongwingDeep Cut85points
- Eleusis whiteDeep Cut85points
- Eleven-striped blind snakeDeep Cut85points
- Elf ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Elfin Forest HocicudoDeep Cut85points
- Elias's Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Elicio's marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Eliécer’s Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Eligius FlatDeep Cut85points
- Elis MithrasDeep Cut85points
- Elisabeth's PenelfinDeep Cut85points
- Elissa PageDeep Cut85points
- Elizabeth's dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Elkhorn coralDeep Cut85points
- Elkhorn Coral CrabDeep Cut85points
- Elliot's Storm-PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Ellipse spot toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Elliptical Star CoralDeep Cut85points
- Ello SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Elongate anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Elongate blennyDeep Cut85points
- Elongate frostfishDeep Cut85points
- Elongate gruntDeep 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.