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
- Ferreira's Spiny Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Ferruginous AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Ferruginous Pygmy-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Ferruginous-backed AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Festa toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Festa's Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Festive AmazonDeep Cut85points
- Festive CoquetteDeep Cut85points
- Festive DiabroticaDeep Cut85points
- Festive lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Fiddler crabDeep Cut85points
- Fiebrig's Stingless BeeDeep Cut85points
- Field cricketDeep Cut85points
- Fierce black polybia waspDeep Cut85points
- Fierce pike smeltDeep Cut85points
- Fiery Broken-dashDeep Cut85points
- Fiery EuselasiaDeep Cut85points
- Fiery MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Fiery MyscelusDeep Cut85points
- Fiery Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Fiery SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Fiery Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Fiery SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Fiery TopazDeep Cut85points
- Fiery-capped ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Fiery-eyed DancerDeep Cut85points
- Fiery-shouldered ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Fiery-tailed AwlbillDeep Cut85points
- Fiery-throated FruiteaterDeep Cut85points
- Fifteen-scaled WormDeep Cut85points
- Fig SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Fig Tree BorerDeep Cut85points
- Fig waspDeep Cut85points
- Fighting ConchDeep Cut85points
- Filament coryDeep Cut85points
- FilefishDeep Cut85points
- Filetail fanskateDeep Cut85points
- Filigree hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Filippi's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Fin WhaleDeep Cut85points
- Finca Chibigui SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Finca La Antigua Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Finca Meremburg Spindle SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Finca Primavera rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Fine flounderDeep Cut85points
- Fine spotted coryDeep Cut85points
- Fine-banded AmberwingDeep Cut85points
- Fine-barred PiculetDeep Cut85points
- Fine-lined treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Finescale foureyesDeep 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.