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
- Florida Fern MothDeep Cut85points
- Florida Grass ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Florida Leatherleaf SlugDeep Cut85points
- Florida Pink ScavengerDeep Cut85points
- Florida pompanoDeep Cut85points
- Florida Predatory Stink BugDeep Cut85points
- Florida PurplewingDeep Cut85points
- Florida Rock ShellDeep Cut85points
- Florida round herringDeep Cut85points
- Florida Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Florida Tetanolita MothDeep Cut85points
- Florida Tussock MothDeep Cut85points
- Florida WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Florida Worm SnailDeep Cut85points
- Flower hydroidDeep Cut85points
- FlowerpiercerDeep Cut85points
- Fluminense swallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Flustriform microporeDeep Cut85points
- Fluted SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Flutist WrenDeep Cut85points
- Fly swatter brittle starDeep Cut85points
- Fly-like CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Flying gurnardDeep Cut85points
- Flying halfbeakDeep Cut85points
- Flying squidDeep Cut85points
- Flying Steamer-DuckDeep Cut85points
- Foch's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Fog Talking CatfishDeep Cut85points
- Fogged SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Folded trophonDeep Cut85points
- Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- Fonseca's LanceheadDeep Cut85points
- Fontaine's OctopusDeep Cut85points
- FootballfishDeep Cut85points
- Foothill Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Foothill ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Foothill SchiffornisDeep Cut85points
- Foothill Screech-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Foothill StipplethroatDeep Cut85points
- Forbes's BlackbirdDeep Cut85points
- Forcipate mesabolivarDeep Cut85points
- Forest ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Forest falconDeep Cut85points
- Forest Flame SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Forest giant owlDeep Cut85points
- Forest Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Forest mouseDeep Cut85points
- Forest Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Forest pit viperDeep 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.