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
- Golden hamletDeep Cut85points
- Golden Lady SlipperDeep Cut85points
- Golden lanceheadDeep Cut85points
- Golden lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Golden Lion TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Golden LizardDeep Cut85points
- Golden Looper MothDeep Cut85points
- Golden mojarraDeep Cut85points
- Golden myotisDeep Cut85points
- Golden Mystery SnailDeep Cut85points
- Golden Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Golden orb weaverDeep Cut85points
- Golden otocinclusDeep Cut85points
- Golden ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Golden pencilfishDeep Cut85points
- Golden pike-characinDeep Cut85points
- Golden ploverDeep Cut85points
- Golden Pyrausta MothDeep Cut85points
- Golden Scarlet-EyeDeep Cut85points
- Golden snapperDeep Cut85points
- Golden TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Golden TeguletDeep Cut85points
- Golden tetraDeep Cut85points
- Golden Tortoise BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Golden trahiraDeep Cut85points
- Golden treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Golden trevallyDeep Cut85points
- Golden Vampire PlecDeep Cut85points
- Golden Viscacha RatDeep Cut85points
- Golden WaveDeep Cut85points
- Golden WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Golden Whorltail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Golden ZoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Golden-backed Mountain TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Golden-backed Squirrel MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Golden-banded MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Golden-banded SisterDeep Cut85points
- Golden-bellied Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Golden-bellied FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Golden-bellied StarfrontletDeep Cut85points
- Golden-belly snakeDeep Cut85points
- Golden-billed SaltatorDeep Cut85points
- Golden-breasted FruiteaterDeep Cut85points
- Golden-breasted PufflegDeep Cut85points
- Golden-browed Chat-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Golden-brown UacariDeep Cut85points
- Golden-capped ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Golden-chested TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Golden-chevroned TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Golden-collared HoneycreeperDeep 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.