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
- Globular Spider BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Globular Thief AntDeep Cut85points
- Gloria's Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Glorious Blue-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Glorious PodelfinDeep Cut85points
- Glorious PurplewingDeep Cut85points
- Glory-of-the-Atlantic ConeDeep Cut85points
- Glossed EuselasiaDeep Cut85points
- Glossy AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Glossy DovesnailDeep Cut85points
- Glossy FlowerpiercerDeep Cut85points
- Glossy GranuleDeep Cut85points
- Glossy IbisDeep Cut85points
- Glossy Shade LizardDeep Cut85points
- Glossy-backed BecardDeep Cut85points
- Glossy-black ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Glossy-fronted DryadDeep Cut85points
- Glowing cockroachDeep Cut85points
- Glowing PufflegDeep Cut85points
- Glowlight tetraDeep Cut85points
- Glowspot CockroachDeep Cut85points
- Gmelin's Banded-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Gnarled catfishDeep Cut85points
- GnatcatcherDeep Cut85points
- GnateaterDeep Cut85points
- GnatwrenDeep Cut85points
- Gnetus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Gnidus MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Gnomus tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Gnosia HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Goateed gobyDeep Cut85points
- GoatfishDeep Cut85points
- Goblin sharkDeep Cut85points
- Goblin spiderDeep Cut85points
- GobyDeep Cut85points
- God's flounderDeep Cut85points
- Godart's AgriasDeep Cut85points
- Godart's Blue RingletDeep Cut85points
- Godart's MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Godart's MorphoDeep Cut85points
- Godart's numberwingDeep Cut85points
- Goddard's TrapaniaDeep Cut85points
- Godman's Bent-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Godman's long-tailed batDeep Cut85points
- Godman's MapwingDeep Cut85points
- Godman's SisterDeep Cut85points
- Godman´s SarotaDeep Cut85points
- GodwitDeep Cut85points
- Godzilla gobyDeep Cut85points
- Goeldi's AntbirdDeep 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.