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
- Euler's FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Eunomia numberwingDeep Cut85points
- EuphoniaDeep Cut85points
- Euribates Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- European Freshwater LeechDeep Cut85points
- Eurus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Eusepus EuselasiaDeep Cut85points
- Evadnes SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Evan’s StefaniaDeep Cut85points
- Evangelista’s foam frogletDeep Cut85points
- Evans' FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Evans' MylonDeep Cut85points
- Evans' Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Eveline's LearchisDeep Cut85points
- Eveline's Sea GoddessDeep Cut85points
- Evelyn's coryDeep Cut85points
- Even Prickly CockleDeep Cut85points
- Even-striped DasherDeep Cut85points
- Evening SkimmerDeep Cut85points
- Evergreen toadDeep Cut85points
- Everlasting Bud MothDeep Cut85points
- Evermann's cardinalfishDeep Cut85points
- Evermann's lantern fishDeep Cut85points
- Ex-marcus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Executioner clownfrogDeep Cut85points
- Executioner waspDeep Cut85points
- Exesa Midget MothDeep Cut85points
- Exile cusk eelDeep Cut85points
- Exilis Bronze TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Exotic StreaktailDeep Cut85points
- Eye of JudasDeep Cut85points
- Eye spot toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Eye-flash squidDeep Cut85points
- Eye-ringed FlatbillDeep Cut85points
- Eye-ringed ThistletailDeep Cut85points
- Eye-ringed Tody-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Eyebrow bigscaleDeep Cut85points
- Eyebrowed Humming FrogDeep Cut85points
- Eyed Dysodia MothDeep Cut85points
- Eyed flounderDeep Cut85points
- Eyed GraylerDeep Cut85points
- Eyed TheopeDeep Cut85points
- Eyed-MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Eyelash viperDeep Cut85points
- Eyespot Clawed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Eyespot skateDeep Cut85points
- Fabian's crevice anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Fabricius' Bent-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Facciola's sorcererDeep Cut85points
- Facilis 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.