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
- Antler CoralDeep Cut85points
- Antler dragonetDeep Cut85points
- Antler toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- AntlionDeep Cut85points
- Antonieta’s lizardDeep Cut85points
- Antonina toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Antonio Brack's Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- AntpipitDeep Cut85points
- AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Antra SkipperDeep Cut85points
- AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- AntthrushDeep Cut85points
- AntvireoDeep Cut85points
- AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- ApapaDeep Cut85points
- Apeco Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Apella SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Aphaca HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Aphrodite anthiasDeep Cut85points
- Apiaí toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Apical FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Apiform morning glory-diggerDeep Cut85points
- AplochitonDeep Cut85points
- Aplomado FalconDeep Cut85points
- Apolinar's WrenDeep Cut85points
- Apollo RedspotDeep Cut85points
- Apostrophe gobyDeep Cut85points
- Appendageless snailfishDeep Cut85points
- Appia SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Apple MurexDeep Cut85points
- Apple snailDeep Cut85points
- Aprada Stefania treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Apradatepui Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Apron rayDeep Cut85points
- Apure Tiger PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Apurimac BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Apurimac Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Apurimac SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Apurímac Woodland RacerDeep Cut85points
- Apuriná poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Aquamarine HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Aquatic coral snakeDeep Cut85points
- Aquino's TitiDeep Cut85points
- Araçá UacariDeep Cut85points
- AracariDeep Cut85points
- Aracruz Humming FrogDeep Cut85points
- Aragua glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Aragua poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Aragua Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Araguaia coryDeep 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.