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
- Faded TheopeDeep Cut85points
- Faded tritoniaDeep Cut85points
- Fadus SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Faint-spotted Palthis MothDeep Cut85points
- Fairy armadilloDeep Cut85points
- Fairy catfishDeep Cut85points
- Fairy MothDeep Cut85points
- Fairy PrionDeep Cut85points
- Fairy shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Fairy SkimmerDeep Cut85points
- Fairy TubewormDeep Cut85points
- Falcate EmesisDeep Cut85points
- Falcate SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Falcate SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Falcate TheopeDeep Cut85points
- Falcifera Sphinx MothDeep Cut85points
- Falcon crested toadDeep Cut85points
- Falcon indigo snakeDeep Cut85points
- Falcon red banner blennyDeep Cut85points
- Falcon toadDeep Cut85points
- FalconetDeep Cut85points
- Falerina HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Falkland Camel CricketDeep Cut85points
- Falkland cellariaDeep Cut85points
- Falkland Islands Brocade MothDeep Cut85points
- Falkland spratDeep Cut85points
- Falkland Steamer-DuckDeep Cut85points
- Fall Armyworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Fallax SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Fallax SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Falls LukunaniDeep Cut85points
- False AdolfoiDeep Cut85points
- False AngelwingDeep Cut85points
- False AnterosDeep Cut85points
- False AntirrheaDeep Cut85points
- False bandit corydorasDeep Cut85points
- False black tetraDeep Cut85points
- False blochi catfishDeep Cut85points
- False Burnet MothDeep Cut85points
- False catsharkDeep Cut85points
- False cattleheart swallowtailDeep Cut85points
- False clamDeep Cut85points
- False Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- False Cup-and-Saucer LimpetDeep Cut85points
- False Fer-de-LanceDeep Cut85points
- False Giant SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- False halfbeakDeep Cut85points
- False Herrera's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- False herringDeep Cut85points
- False Jaguar CatfishDeep 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.