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
- Graceful dragonfishDeep Cut85points
- Graceful dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Graceful mojarraDeep Cut85points
- Graceful pimelodellaDeep Cut85points
- Graceful Snail-eaterDeep Cut85points
- Graceful Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Graceful Twig AntDeep Cut85points
- Gracile Atlantic Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Gracile DonaxDeep Cut85points
- Gracile hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Gracile opossumDeep Cut85points
- GrackleDeep Cut85points
- Gradated BulliaDeep Cut85points
- Graham's Sea GoddessDeep Cut85points
- Graham's Sheet CoralDeep Cut85points
- Grainy Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Gralarias RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Gran Rio snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Gran Sabana snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Gran Sabana thin-toed frogDeep Cut85points
- Grand Ghost-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Grand lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Granites SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Granular AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Granular button frogDeep Cut85points
- Granular dogfishDeep Cut85points
- Granular leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Granular toadDeep Cut85points
- Granulated catfishDeep Cut85points
- Granulated conchDeep Cut85points
- Granulated CrabDeep Cut85points
- Granulated Hem StarDeep Cut85points
- Granulated Spider CrabDeep Cut85points
- Granulose chondriovelumDeep Cut85points
- Grape-eye seabassDeep Cut85points
- Graphic BeautyDeep Cut85points
- Graphic OwletDeep Cut85points
- Grass AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Grass CerithDeep Cut85points
- Grass finchDeep Cut85points
- Grass Miner MothDeep Cut85points
- Grass mouseDeep Cut85points
- Grass SheathminerDeep Cut85points
- Grass SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Grass SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Grass SquidDeep Cut85points
- Grass Tubeworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Grass WrenDeep Cut85points
- Grass YellowDeep Cut85points
- Grass-green TanagerDeep 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.