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
- Fjord saplingDeep Cut85points
- Flaccid lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Flag acaraDeep Cut85points
- Flag cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Flag serranoDeep Cut85points
- Flag SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Flag tailed panda coryDeep Cut85points
- Flag tetraDeep Cut85points
- Flagfin mojarraDeep Cut85points
- Flagtail catfishDeep Cut85points
- Flagtail characinDeep Cut85points
- Flagtail wormfishDeep Cut85points
- Flamarion's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Flame augerDeep Cut85points
- Flame Helmet SnailDeep Cut85points
- Flame Rump Tree SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Flame Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Flame snakeDeep Cut85points
- Flame Streaked Box CrabDeep Cut85points
- Flame tetraDeep Cut85points
- Flame-back bleeding heart tetraDeep Cut85points
- Flame-crested TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Flame-crowned ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Flame-faced TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Flame-rumped TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Flame-tailed Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Flame-tailed PondhawkDeep Cut85points
- Flame-throated WhiptailDeep Cut85points
- FlamebackDeep Cut85points
- Flameback angelfishDeep Cut85points
- FlamefishDeep Cut85points
- Flametail tetraDeep Cut85points
- Flaming Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Flaming MyscelusDeep Cut85points
- Flaming reef lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Flamingo LeafwingDeep Cut85points
- Flamingo Tongue SnailDeep Cut85points
- Flammulated Pygmy-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Flammulated TreehunterDeep Cut85points
- Flapnose congerDeep Cut85points
- Flapnose sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Flapping DingbatDeep Cut85points
- Flash plecoDeep Cut85points
- Flasher Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Flashing FlatDeep Cut85points
- Flat Andes AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Flat ButtonDeep Cut85points
- Flat head plecoDeep Cut85points
- Flat needlefishDeep Cut85points
- Flat oysterDeep 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.