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
- Gaucho RecluseDeep Cut85points
- Gaudichaud's frogDeep Cut85points
- Gaudy BabakinaDeep Cut85points
- Gaudy Clown CrabDeep Cut85points
- Gaudy Frog shellDeep Cut85points
- Gaudy SanguinDeep Cut85points
- Gaudy SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Gaudy SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Gay's Austral-LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Gay's Austral-Small carpenterDeep Cut85points
- Gay's Digger-cuckooDeep Cut85points
- Gay's WoolcarderDeep Cut85points
- Gazera FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Geisa SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Geisler's dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Gelatinous blindfishDeep Cut85points
- Gellias FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Gelus SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Gem MothDeep Cut85points
- Genes SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Genista Giant Scale InsectDeep Cut85points
- Genovesa Cactus FinchDeep Cut85points
- Genovesa Ground FinchDeep Cut85points
- Gentoo PenguinDeep Cut85points
- Gentry's RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- GeoduckDeep Cut85points
- Geoffroy's CatDeep Cut85points
- Geoffroy's DaggerbillDeep Cut85points
- Geoffroy's Saddle-back TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Geoffroy's tailless batDeep Cut85points
- Geoffroy's TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Geoffroy’s Toadhead TurtleDeep Cut85points
- Geoffroy's Tufted-ear MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Geon SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- George Jett's Snail-EaterDeep Cut85points
- Gerasa SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Gerbil mouseDeep Cut85points
- Gervais's Beaked WhaleDeep Cut85points
- Gervais's fruit-eating batDeep Cut85points
- Géry's PirambebaDeep Cut85points
- Gevers's TrophonDeep Cut85points
- Ghost AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Ghost batDeep Cut85points
- Ghost BulimulusDeep Cut85points
- Ghost candiruDeep Cut85points
- Ghost crabDeep Cut85points
- Ghost hagfishDeep Cut85points
- Ghost mothDeep Cut85points
- Ghost plecoDeep Cut85points
- Ghost SailorDeep 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.