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
- Argentine hakeDeep Cut85points
- Argentine Harvester AntDeep Cut85points
- Argentine horned frogDeep Cut85points
- Argentine humpheadDeep Cut85points
- Argentine Marked GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Argentine menhadenDeep Cut85points
- Argentine Pampas SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Argentine pearlfishDeep Cut85points
- Argentine pygmy tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Argentine red shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Argentine seabassDeep Cut85points
- Argentine serotineDeep Cut85points
- Argentine shortfin squidDeep Cut85points
- Argentine skateDeep Cut85points
- Argentine SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Argentine SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Argentine snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Argentine stem weevilDeep Cut85points
- Argentine stiletto shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Argentine toadDeep Cut85points
- Argentine torpedoDeep Cut85points
- Argentine Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Argentine Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Argentine white crested mantisDeep Cut85points
- Argentinean rose tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Argentinean Sea AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Argentinean Swamp RatDeep Cut85points
- Argentinian Bronze TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Argentinian coral snakeDeep Cut85points
- Argentinian Rainbow BoaDeep Cut85points
- Argentinian sandperchDeep Cut85points
- Argentinian ScarabDeep Cut85points
- Argentinian silversideDeep Cut85points
- Argentinian toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Argon SkipperDeep Cut85points
- ArgonautDeep Cut85points
- Argonaut MylonDeep Cut85points
- Arguedas's Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Argus frogDeep Cut85points
- Argus morayDeep Cut85points
- Ari's CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Arico Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Arinas FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Arinos coryDeep Cut85points
- Aripuana AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Arita SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Aritana's Brown Four-eyed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Ark clamDeep Cut85points
- Ark CockleDeep Cut85points
- Arlindo's Short-tailed OpossumDeep 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.