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
- Elongate hatchetfishDeep Cut85points
- Elongate Mouse CatfishDeep Cut85points
- Elongate Stilt SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Elongate tonguefishDeep Cut85points
- Elongate Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Elongated bristlemouth fishDeep Cut85points
- Elongated dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Elongated eartheaterDeep Cut85points
- Elongated Violet SnailDeep Cut85points
- Elongated whiptail catfishDeep Cut85points
- Eluina eighty-eightDeep Cut85points
- Elusive AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Elusive MicrotegusDeep Cut85points
- Elwes' SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Embalse San Lorenzo Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Ember gobyDeep Cut85points
- Ember parrotfishDeep Cut85points
- Ember tetraDeep Cut85points
- Emblem gobyDeep Cut85points
- Emerald AgunaDeep Cut85points
- Emerald catfishDeep Cut85points
- Emerald Chevron TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Emerald CicadaDeep Cut85points
- Emerald cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Emerald clingfishDeep Cut85points
- Emerald forest frogDeep Cut85points
- Emerald gobyDeep Cut85points
- Emerald green tetraDeep Cut85points
- Emerald HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Emerald MothDeep Cut85points
- Emerald NeriteDeep Cut85points
- Emerald parrotfishDeep Cut85points
- Emerald Skeleton TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Emerald sleeperDeep Cut85points
- Emerald TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Emerald toucanetDeep Cut85points
- Emerald tree boaDeep Cut85points
- Emerald-bellied PufflegDeep Cut85points
- Emerald-eyed treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Emerald-patched CattleheartDeep Cut85points
- EmeraldineDeep Cut85points
- EmeraldstreakDeep Cut85points
- Emerantia CrescentDeep Cut85points
- Emerina Stingless BeeDeep Cut85points
- Emerson's Miniature CerithDeep Cut85points
- Emessa HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Emigdio's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Emilie's OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Emilie's Short-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Emilio's ground frogDeep 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.