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
- Gill's sand lanceDeep Cut85points
- Gillbacker sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Gilt-edged TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Ginkgo-toothed Beaked WhaleDeep Cut85points
- Ginsburg's tonguefishDeep Cut85points
- Giovanni's big-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Girard’s dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Girard's robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Girard's Whorltail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Girdled TritonDeep Cut85points
- Gisella SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Glacier FinchDeep Cut85points
- Gladiator ConeDeep Cut85points
- Gladiator frogDeep Cut85points
- Gladys' coryDeep Cut85points
- Glamis SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Glandular CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Glass bloodfinDeep Cut85points
- Glass gobyDeep Cut85points
- Glass headstanderDeep Cut85points
- Glass knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Glass lizardDeep Cut85points
- Glass sardineDeep Cut85points
- Glass spongeDeep Cut85points
- Glass tetraDeep Cut85points
- Glass wormDeep Cut85points
- GlasseyeDeep Cut85points
- Glasshead grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Glasswing butterflyDeep Cut85points
- Glassy PierellaDeep Cut85points
- Glassy ScaleDeep Cut85points
- Glassy sweeperDeep Cut85points
- Glassy-winged SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Glauca MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Glauce LeafwingDeep Cut85points
- Glaucia’s terrestrial nest-building frogDeep Cut85points
- Glaucous CrackerDeep Cut85points
- Glaucous TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Glaucous-blue GrosbeakDeep Cut85points
- Glazed PelliciaDeep Cut85points
- Glazed TheopeDeep Cut85points
- Glenda RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Glider flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- Gliding antDeep Cut85points
- Gliding treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Glistening-green TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Glittering-bellied EmeraldDeep Cut85points
- Glittering-throated EmeraldDeep Cut85points
- Globe-marked Lady BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Globosehead rattailDeep 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.