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
- Forest Pond DasherDeep Cut85points
- Forest RacerDeep Cut85points
- Forest rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Forest Small Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Forest snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Forest stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Forest Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Forest WhiptailDeep Cut85points
- Forester MothDeep Cut85points
- Forgotten MylonDeep Cut85points
- Fork-tailed comb-footed spiderDeep Cut85points
- Fork-tailed FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Fork-tailed Palm SwiftDeep Cut85points
- Fork-tailed Pygmy-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Fork-tailed WoodnymphDeep Cut85points
- Fork-tipped DasherDeep Cut85points
- Forktail plecoDeep Cut85points
- Forktailed bassDeep Cut85points
- Formosa Whorltail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Forster's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Fort Randolph Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Fortuitous RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Fortune jackDeep Cut85points
- Forum SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Fossi's encrusting anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Fossorial Giant RatDeep Cut85points
- Foster's PunareDeep Cut85points
- Four Tooth ToothshellDeep Cut85points
- Four-banded Pacific IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Four-eyed fishDeep Cut85points
- Four-eyed frogDeep Cut85points
- Four-eyed opossumDeep Cut85points
- Four-fin blennyDeep Cut85points
- Four-handed Box JellyDeep Cut85points
- Four-speckled Hover FlyDeep Cut85points
- Four-spotted cowrieDeep Cut85points
- Four-spotted Fungus BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Four-spotted Hairy Fungus BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Four-spotted LongtailDeep Cut85points
- Four-spotted Palpita MothDeep Cut85points
- Four-spotted SailorDeep Cut85points
- Four-toed AmapasaurusDeep Cut85points
- Four-toothed NeriteDeep Cut85points
- Foureye butterflyfishDeep Cut85points
- Foureye rockskipperDeep Cut85points
- Foureyed flounderDeep Cut85points
- Fourspot flounderDeep Cut85points
- Fourteen-gill hagfishDeep Cut85points
- Fourwing flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- Foveolate Margined-Resin beeDeep 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.