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
- Galápagos SnailDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos snake eelDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos Snapping ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos thread herringDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos triplefin blennyDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos Wolf SpiderDeep Cut85points
- GalaxiasDeep Cut85points
- Galaxy plecoDeep Cut85points
- Galera SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Galeras Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Galibi tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Gall waspDeep Cut85points
- Gallagher's KentropyxDeep Cut85points
- Gallardo's toadDeep Cut85points
- GallinipperDeep Cut85points
- GallinuleDeep Cut85points
- GallitoDeep Cut85points
- Gambita Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Gámbita tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Gamboa Worm SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Gambote Mock ViperDeep Cut85points
- Ganimedes HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Ganna AgunaDeep Cut85points
- Gaptooth lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Gar characinDeep Cut85points
- Garagoa CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Garagoa treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Garcia's big-headed frogDeep Cut85points
- García's glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Garden FleahopperDeep Cut85points
- Garden Webworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Gardner's Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Gardner's Short-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Gardner's Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Gargara HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Gargophia HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Gargoyle cuskDeep Cut85points
- Garín’s LizardDeep Cut85points
- Garland AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Garlanded Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Garlepp's MouseDeep Cut85points
- Garlepp's Oil-digger-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Garman's lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Garnet CrabDeep Cut85points
- Garnet DancerDeep Cut85points
- Garnet GliderDeep Cut85points
- Garnet tetraDeep Cut85points
- Garnet-patched HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Gartered Violaceous-TrogonDeep Cut85points
- Gaucha SkipperlingDeep 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.