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
- Erebus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Ericeta HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Erichson's White-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Erika's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Ermine MothDeep Cut85points
- Ernest's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Erostratus MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Erybathis HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Erymanthis SisterDeep Cut85points
- Erythrina borerDeep Cut85points
- EscolarDeep Cut85points
- Esma LongtailDeep Cut85points
- Esmerald RacerDeep Cut85points
- Esmeralda LongtailDeep Cut85points
- Esmeraldas AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Esmeraldas RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Esmeraldas robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Esmeraldas WoodstarDeep Cut85points
- Espada's marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Espada's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Espada's rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Española cactus finchDeep Cut85points
- Española Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Espanola MockingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Espe's pencilfishDeep Cut85points
- Espinhaço hatchet-faced tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Espírito Santo blind snakeDeep Cut85points
- Espirito Santo robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Espírito Santo Smooth-horned FrogDeep Cut85points
- Espirito Santo treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Esta LongtailDeep Cut85points
- Estado Falcón geckoDeep Cut85points
- Estado Falcón worm snakeDeep Cut85points
- Estado Sucre geckoDeep Cut85points
- Estadual de Forno Grande snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Esther's ThreadtailDeep Cut85points
- Estrada Saraiva treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Estrella treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Estuary gobyDeep Cut85points
- Eteocla SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Ethemides SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Etheridge's Lava LizardDeep Cut85points
- Ethilla longwingDeep Cut85points
- Ethoda SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Etna SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Euclea TigerwingDeep Cut85points
- Eudemus Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Eufala SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Eugenia's RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Eugeon SkipperDeep 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.