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
- False Killer WhaleDeep Cut85points
- False King CrabDeep Cut85points
- False macropterusDeep Cut85points
- False MonitorDeep Cut85points
- False morayDeep Cut85points
- False network catfishDeep Cut85points
- False NymphidiumDeep Cut85points
- False oblique hatchetfishDeep Cut85points
- False papillose blennyDeep Cut85points
- False polystictoDeep Cut85points
- False Pug MothDeep Cut85points
- False pumpkin spongeDeep Cut85points
- False rummynose tetraDeep Cut85points
- False SalianaDeep Cut85points
- False spotted catfishDeep Cut85points
- False Tiger AnoleDeep Cut85points
- False Tomodon SnakeDeep Cut85points
- False Tree CoralDeep Cut85points
- False Triad Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- False vampire batDeep Cut85points
- False Water CobraDeep Cut85points
- False widowDeep Cut85points
- False wolf spiderDeep Cut85points
- False X-ray TetraDeep Cut85points
- False zebra longwingDeep Cut85points
- Familiar BluetDeep Cut85points
- Fanfin anglerDeep Cut85points
- FanfishDeep Cut85points
- Fanged water snakeDeep Cut85points
- FangtoothDeep Cut85points
- Fangtooth dragonfishDeep Cut85points
- Fangtooth snake-eelDeep Cut85points
- Fanning pyrrhulinaDeep Cut85points
- FanskateDeep Cut85points
- Fantail mulletDeep Cut85points
- Fantailed dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Fantastic poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Fantastic Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Fantastic SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Fasciated AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Fasciated Tiger-HeronDeep Cut85points
- Fasciated WrenDeep Cut85points
- Fasciolata SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Fasciolated GraphicDeep Cut85points
- Fassl's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Fast singer frogDeep Cut85points
- Fat Dove SnailDeep Cut85points
- Fat Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Fat Head PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Fat Horse MusselDeep 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.