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
- Fat sleeperDeep Cut85points
- Fat snookDeep Cut85points
- Fat-headed codDeep Cut85points
- Fat-tailed opossumDeep Cut85points
- Fatamorgana PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Fatfinger marsh crabDeep Cut85points
- FatheadDeep Cut85points
- Fausto's button frogDeep Cut85points
- Favored TellinDeep Cut85points
- Favose MeliponaDeep Cut85points
- Fawn-breasted BrilliantDeep Cut85points
- Fawn-breasted TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Fawn-breasted WrenDeep Cut85points
- Fawn-spotted SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Fazenda Salto treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Fea's PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Feather AeolidDeep Cut85points
- Feather Black CoralDeep Cut85points
- Feather Bush HydroidDeep Cut85points
- Feather Date MusselDeep Cut85points
- Feather duster wormDeep Cut85points
- Feather starDeep Cut85points
- Feather-legged spiderDeep Cut85points
- Feathered FiestamarkDeep Cut85points
- Featherfin dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Featherfin pearlfishDeep Cut85points
- Featherfin tetraDeep Cut85points
- Fecund Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Feijo white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Felder's DircennaDeep Cut85points
- Felder's FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Felder's WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Felders' BrangasDeep Cut85points
- Felders' HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Felix's HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Felizitas PenelfinDeep Cut85points
- Fenton's mastiff batDeep Cut85points
- Fer-de-lanceDeep Cut85points
- Ferguson's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Ferguson's Epidromia MothDeep Cut85points
- Fern MothDeep Cut85points
- Fern-loving TreefrogDeep Cut85points
- Fernandez whiptailDeep Cut85points
- Fernandez's HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Fernandez's sword-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Fernandina RacerDeep Cut85points
- Fernando de Noronha Dwarf GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Fernão Velho snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Ferreira's Fish-eating RatDeep Cut85points
- Ferreira's Spider CrabDeep 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.