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
- Ghost scabbardfishDeep Cut85points
- Ghost shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Ghost spiderDeep Cut85points
- Ghost Tree SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Ghost YellowDeep Cut85points
- Ghost-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Gianna's yellow-shouldered batDeep Cut85points
- Giant Amazon LeechDeep Cut85points
- Giant Amazonian antDeep Cut85points
- Giant ameivaDeep Cut85points
- Giant AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Giant AnterosDeep Cut85points
- Giant AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Giant AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Giant aspidostomaDeep Cut85points
- Giant Atlantic PyramDeep Cut85points
- Giant Atlantic Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Giant BarnacleDeep Cut85points
- Giant Barrel SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Giant Basket StarDeep Cut85points
- Giant Black CockroachDeep Cut85points
- Giant Black-and-white TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Giant blennyDeep Cut85points
- Giant Bumblebee CatfishDeep Cut85points
- Giant butterfly-mothDeep Cut85points
- Giant cicadaDeep Cut85points
- Giant cockroachDeep Cut85points
- Giant ConebillDeep Cut85points
- Giant CootDeep Cut85points
- Giant Coquina ClamDeep Cut85points
- Giant CowbirdDeep Cut85points
- Giant damselfishDeep Cut85points
- Giant Digger-cuckooDeep Cut85points
- Giant Dung DiggerDeep Cut85points
- Giant earthwormDeep Cut85points
- Giant electric rayDeep Cut85points
- Giant EntheusDeep Cut85points
- Giant False LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Giant Feather Duster WormDeep Cut85points
- Giant Green AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Giant Hairy Triton SnailDeep Cut85points
- Giant hatchetfishDeep Cut85points
- Giant hawkfishDeep Cut85points
- Giant Hermit CrabDeep Cut85points
- Giant Honeycomb OysterDeep Cut85points
- Giant hummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Giant Imperious SawyerDeep Cut85points
- Giant isopodDeep Cut85points
- Giant JacknifeDeep Cut85points
- Giant Keyhole LimpetDeep 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.