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
- Goeldi's frogDeep Cut85points
- Goeldi's MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Goeldi's Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Goeldi's tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Goias GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Goiás poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Goias rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Goias Smooth Horned FrogDeep Cut85points
- Goias swamp frogDeep Cut85points
- Goiás tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Goias treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Goiás tropical bullfrogDeep Cut85points
- Goias white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Gojo coryDeep Cut85points
- Gold diamond piranhaDeep Cut85points
- Gold Line Sea GoddessDeep Cut85points
- Gold marble bristlenoseDeep Cut85points
- Gold nugget plecoDeep Cut85points
- Gold spot plecoDeep Cut85points
- Gold Stripe PanaqueDeep Cut85points
- Gold teguDeep Cut85points
- Gold-banded Etiella MothDeep Cut85points
- Gold-bordered HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Gold-crowned Sea GoddessDeep Cut85points
- Gold-dot SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Gold-fringed CerberillaDeep Cut85points
- Gold-Mouthed Triton SnailDeep Cut85points
- Gold-plated SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Gold-rimmed FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Gold-ringed TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Gold-spot pike characinDeep Cut85points
- Gold-spotted AgunaDeep Cut85points
- Gold-spotted marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Gold-stained SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Gold-striped frogDeep Cut85points
- Gold-tailed tetraDeep Cut85points
- Gold-washed SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Gold-washed SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Gold-winged SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Golden acaraDeep Cut85points
- Golden AmberwingDeep Cut85points
- Golden Atlantic Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Golden Banded-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Golden batDeep Cut85points
- Golden cloud plecoDeep Cut85points
- Golden ConeDeep Cut85points
- Golden crabDeep Cut85points
- Golden CrinoidDeep Cut85points
- Golden EuselasiaDeep Cut85points
- Golden GrosbeakDeep 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.