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
- Emilio's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Emmel's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Emmons's Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Emperor butterflyDeep Cut85points
- Emperor Helmet SnailDeep Cut85points
- Emperor mothDeep Cut85points
- Emperor tamarinDeep Cut85points
- Emperor tetraDeep Cut85points
- Empress BrilliantDeep Cut85points
- Empusa HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting GorgonianDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting rose spongeDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting Social TunicateDeep Cut85points
- Endesa saucer coralDeep Cut85points
- Endler's livebearerDeep Cut85points
- Enega Bent-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Enenia HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Enersis hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Engel's FlabellinaDeep Cut85points
- Engel's GumdropDeep Cut85points
- Englert's scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Enigmatic OwletDeep Cut85points
- Ensign waspDeep Cut85points
- Entre Rios tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Enviagado rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Epaulet OrioleDeep Cut85points
- Ephora Tufted-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Epidius HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Epinome CrackerDeep Cut85points
- Epiphaneus SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Episcopal HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Episcopal MitreDeep Cut85points
- Epistrophus white morphoDeep Cut85points
- Epopea HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Epytus HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Equal-banded Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Equatorial AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Equatorial AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Equatorial CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Equatorial dog-faced batDeep Cut85points
- Equatorial eelDeep Cut85points
- Equatorial GraytailDeep Cut85points
- Equatorial KeelbackDeep Cut85points
- Equatorial longfin herringDeep Cut85points
- Equatorial MussuranaDeep Cut85points
- Equatorial SakiDeep Cut85points
- Equatorial skateDeep Cut85points
- Equinox CowrieDeep Cut85points
- Erazo's FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Erdis' False Coral SnakeDeep 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.