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
- Flat Sea BiscuitDeep Cut85points
- Flat spoonclamDeep Cut85points
- Flat thouarellaDeep Cut85points
- Flat TivelaDeep Cut85points
- Flat Tree OysterDeep Cut85points
- Flat-backed millipedeDeep Cut85points
- Flat-bodied mothDeep Cut85points
- Flat-faced fruit-eating batDeep Cut85points
- Flat-fingered Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Flat-headed bromeliad treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Flat-headed Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Flat-spined AtelopusDeep Cut85points
- Flatback Mud CrabDeep Cut85points
- FlatbillDeep Cut85points
- Flatface Swimming CrabDeep Cut85points
- Flathead grey mulletDeep Cut85points
- Flathead porgyDeep Cut85points
- Flathead sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Flattened CrabDeep Cut85points
- Flattened Helmet/Beroe Comb JellyDeep Cut85points
- Flatwhiskered catfishDeep Cut85points
- Flavens SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Flaveola SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Flavescent FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Flavescent WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Flea beetleDeep Cut85points
- Flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Flea-frogDeep Cut85points
- Flecked leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Fleischmann's glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Flesh flyDeep Cut85points
- Flesh-colored Ribbon WormDeep Cut85points
- Fleshy Disc CoralDeep Cut85points
- Fleshy Keyhole LimpetDeep Cut85points
- FlickerDeep Cut85points
- Flightless CormorantDeep Cut85points
- Flightless Steamer-DuckDeep Cut85points
- Floating pennywort weevilDeep Cut85points
- Floral HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Floreana CoralDeep Cut85points
- Floreana Lava LizardDeep Cut85points
- Floreana MockingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Florencia Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Florencia tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Flores WeevilDeep Cut85points
- Flores' RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Florestan SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Florida CorallimorphDeep Cut85points
- Florida Cross-barred VenusDeep Cut85points
- Florida Fast WoodlouseDeep 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.