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
- Fulvous AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous Shrike-TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous TapetiDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous Whistling-DuckDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous WrenDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous-breasted FlatbillDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous-chinned NunletDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous-crested TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous-crowned Scrub-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous-dotted TreerunnerDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous-faced Scrub-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous-headed BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous-headed TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous-legged Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous-vented EuphoniaDeep Cut85points
- Fuma SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Fumata SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Fumida ClearwingDeep Cut85points
- Fundo Sinchona CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Funereal DuskywingDeep Cut85points
- Funnel weaverDeep Cut85points
- Funnel-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Funnel-web tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Funny rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Funny slender-legged treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Furrowed Mud CrabDeep Cut85points
- Furrowed sea cradleDeep Cut85points
- Furry Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Furtive Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Fuscous FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Fuscous-blotched treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Fused Staghorn CoralDeep Cut85points
- Fusiform oliveDeep Cut85points
- Gabina HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Gabriel's catfishDeep Cut85points
- Gabriela HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Gadira HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Gafftopsail pompanoDeep Cut85points
- Gafftopsail sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Gagliardo's RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Gaige's anoleDeep Cut85points
- Gaige's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Gaige's rainbow lizardDeep Cut85points
- Gaige's rapids frogDeep Cut85points
- Gainsboro PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos abaloneDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos Bark ScorpionDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos barnacle blennyDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos batfishDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos Black WidowDeep 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.