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
- Galapagos blennyDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos BlueDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos Blue BeautyDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos blue-banded gobyDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos bullhead sharkDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos catsharkDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos centipedeDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos CerithDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos clingfishDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos cowry helmetDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos croakerDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos cuskeelDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos damselDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos DoveDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos drumDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos Fairy Lady BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos Field CricketDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos four-eyed blennyDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos Fur SealDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos garden eelDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos Ghost SharkDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos grey skateDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos gurnardDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos HawkDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos jawfishDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos land iguanaDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos large painted locustDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos Lava LizardDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos leaf-toed geckoDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos MartinDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos MockingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos mulletDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos pink land iguanaDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos porgyDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos racerDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos RailDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos razorfishDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos Reef OctopusDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos Sand DollarDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos Sea LionDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos sharkDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos ShearwaterDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos sheephead wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos Silver FritillaryDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos Slate Pencil UrchinDeep 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.