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
- Greater round-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Greater sac-winged batDeep Cut85points
- Greater ScythebillDeep Cut85points
- Greater soapfishDeep Cut85points
- Greater spear-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Greater Star CoralDeep Cut85points
- Greater ThornbirdDeep Cut85points
- Greater Wagtail-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Greater Windward SkinkDeep Cut85points
- Greater Yellow FinchDeep Cut85points
- Greater Yellow-headed VultureDeep Cut85points
- Greater yellow-shouldered batDeep Cut85points
- Greater YellowlegsDeep Cut85points
- GrebeDeep Cut85points
- Greedy Olalla RatDeep Cut85points
- Greeley's diaululaDeep Cut85points
- Green AcouchiDeep Cut85points
- Green and black poison dart frogDeep Cut85points
- Green and red venter harlequin toadDeep Cut85points
- Green AracariDeep Cut85points
- Green Black LanceheadDeep Cut85points
- Green broad lip plecoDeep Cut85points
- Green Bubble SnailDeep Cut85points
- Green Button PolypDeep Cut85points
- Green Clinging CrabDeep Cut85points
- Green Cutworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Green dotted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Green dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Green dwarf tetraDeep Cut85points
- Green Finger SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Green fire tetraDeep Cut85points
- Green FlasherDeep Cut85points
- Green Flathead PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Green FrogletDeep Cut85points
- Green gold catfishDeep Cut85points
- Green HermitDeep Cut85points
- Green HeronDeep Cut85points
- Green HoneycreeperDeep Cut85points
- Green HydraDeep Cut85points
- Green IbisDeep Cut85points
- Green IncaDeep Cut85points
- Green jackDeep Cut85points
- Green KentropyxDeep Cut85points
- Green Keyhole LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Green KingfisherDeep Cut85points
- Green lanternsharkDeep Cut85points
- Green lynx spiderDeep Cut85points
- Green ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Green MellanaDeep Cut85points
- Green morayDeep 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.