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
- Araguaia SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Araguaia toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Araguaian River DolphinDeep Cut85points
- Araguari Toad PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Araguari tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Arajara MabuyaDeep Cut85points
- Araponga dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Araripe ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Arata-Thomas yellow-shouldered batDeep Cut85points
- Araucana PurplewingDeep Cut85points
- Araucanian herringDeep Cut85points
- Araucaria Forest Tree MouseDeep Cut85points
- Araucaria Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Araucaria Tit-spinetailDeep Cut85points
- Araucaria tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Arax FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Arbuscula MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Arch-tipped GliderDeep Cut85points
- Archaic Bell MothDeep Cut85points
- Arched Box CrabDeep Cut85points
- Arched Swimming CrabDeep Cut85points
- Arcos big-headed frogDeep Cut85points
- Arctic HiatellaDeep Cut85points
- Arctic skateDeep Cut85points
- Arctic TernDeep Cut85points
- Arcuate Keyhole LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Ardy's RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Ardys CrescentDeep Cut85points
- Areia Branca tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Arequipa red batDeep Cut85points
- Arequipa Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Ares HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Arete CrackerDeep Cut85points
- Argelia Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Argentina Giant Black RumpDeep Cut85points
- Argentina Mousehole SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Argentina Smoke BrownDeep Cut85points
- Argentine anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Argentine angelsharkDeep Cut85points
- Argentine antDeep Cut85points
- Argentine BagwormDeep Cut85points
- Argentine black and white teguDeep Cut85points
- Argentine caecilianDeep Cut85points
- Argentine congerDeep Cut85points
- Argentine croakerDeep Cut85points
- Argentine dwarf oliveDeep Cut85points
- Argentine Dwarf TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Argentine Fat-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Argentine Fossor TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Argentine goatfishDeep 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.