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-winged WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Goldencrown tetraDeep Cut85points
- Goldeneye cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Goldenscale AnoleDeep Cut85points
- GoldentailDeep Cut85points
- Goldentail morayDeep Cut85points
- GoldenthroatDeep Cut85points
- Goldhead coryDeep Cut85points
- Goldline blennyDeep Cut85points
- Goldman's nectar batDeep Cut85points
- Goldspot gobyDeep Cut85points
- Goldspotted eelDeep Cut85points
- Goldspotted tetraDeep Cut85points
- Goldstripe characinDeep Cut85points
- Goleta HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Golf Ball CoralDeep Cut85points
- Goliath conchDeep Cut85points
- Goliath PinkfootDeep Cut85points
- Goliath Stripe Leg TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Golondrinas leaflitter frogDeep Cut85points
- Gomes' Pampas SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Gomes's round rayDeep Cut85points
- Good AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Goodall's Slender SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Goode croakerDeep Cut85points
- Google-eyed Eighty-eightDeep Cut85points
- Goose barnacleDeep Cut85points
- Goosehead scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Gorgas's Marsh Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Gorgeted PufflegDeep Cut85points
- Gorgeted SunangelDeep Cut85points
- Gorgeted Wood-QuailDeep Cut85points
- Gorgeted WoodstarDeep Cut85points
- Gorgona guitarfishDeep Cut85points
- Gorgona Spindle SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Gorgonian tonguefishDeep Cut85points
- Gorgonian-feeding AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Gory's Oil-digger-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Gosline's hagfishDeep Cut85points
- Gossamer-winged ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Gosse's dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Gould's IncaDeep Cut85points
- Gould's JewelfrontDeep Cut85points
- Gould's ToucanetDeep Cut85points
- Goulding's PiranhaDeep Cut85points
- Gourd Rock SnailDeep Cut85points
- Gouvea's SipoDeep Cut85points
- Goytaca Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Gozmány’s ArcasDeep Cut85points
- Graceful Black-throated TrogonDeep 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.