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
- Fowler's coryDeep Cut85points
- Fowler's snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Fox’s lizardDeep Cut85points
- Fragile glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Fragile grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Fragile lantern fishDeep Cut85points
- Fragile Saucer CoralDeep Cut85points
- Fragile Sticky Ray StarDeep Cut85points
- Fragile surfclamDeep Cut85points
- Fragile tube wormDeep Cut85points
- Fragile Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Franceses island-LanceheadDeep Cut85points
- FranciscanaDeep Cut85points
- Franciscos' Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Franklin's GullDeep Cut85points
- Fraser's AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Fraser's DolphinDeep Cut85points
- Fraser’s lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Frater SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Fraternal fruit-eating batDeep Cut85points
- Freckle-breasted ThornbirdDeep Cut85points
- Freckled cardinalfishDeep Cut85points
- Freckled catsharkDeep Cut85points
- Freckled driftfishDeep Cut85points
- Freckled pike-congerDeep Cut85points
- Freckled sand skateDeep Cut85points
- Freckled soapfishDeep Cut85points
- Freckled Tiger PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Frecklefin gobyDeep Cut85points
- Free-tailed batDeep Cut85points
- Freeman's tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Frei Caneca tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Freiberg's blind snakeDeep Cut85points
- Freiberg's forest toadletDeep Cut85points
- French angelfishDeep Cut85points
- French butterflyfishDeep Cut85points
- French gruntDeep Cut85points
- French Guyana Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Frenda SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Freshwater angelfishDeep Cut85points
- Freshwater crabDeep Cut85points
- Freshwater croakerDeep Cut85points
- Freshwater musselDeep Cut85points
- Freshwater pipefishDeep Cut85points
- Freshwater prawnDeep Cut85points
- Freshwater snailDeep Cut85points
- Freshwater soleDeep Cut85points
- Freshwater spongeDeep Cut85points
- Freshwater stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Fria toothcarpDeep 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.