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
- Green music voluteDeep Cut85points
- Green neon tetraDeep Cut85points
- Green OropendolaDeep Cut85points
- Green phantom plecoDeep Cut85points
- Green Porcelain CrabDeep Cut85points
- Green pufferDeep Cut85points
- Green razorfishDeep Cut85points
- Green Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Green SalianaDeep Cut85points
- Green sea slugDeep Cut85points
- Green shield cicadaDeep Cut85points
- Green SipoDeep Cut85points
- Green Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Green Spiny LobsterDeep Cut85points
- Green Star ShellDeep Cut85points
- Green sulphurDeep Cut85points
- Green terrorDeep Cut85points
- Green ThorntailDeep Cut85points
- Green Thornytail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Green tube tunicateDeep Cut85points
- Green Vine SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Green Volcano BarnacleDeep Cut85points
- Green Warbler-FinchDeep Cut85points
- Green weakfishDeep Cut85points
- Green WhiptailDeep Cut85points
- Green-and-black FruiteaterDeep Cut85points
- Green-and-gold TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Green-and-orange CorynuraDeep Cut85points
- Green-and-rufous KingfisherDeep Cut85points
- Green-and-white HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Green-and-yellow Parrot SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Green-backed BecardDeep Cut85points
- Green-backed FirecrownDeep Cut85points
- Green-backed HillstarDeep Cut85points
- Green-backed Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Green-backed TrogonDeep Cut85points
- Green-banded Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Green-banded UraniaDeep Cut85points
- Green-barred WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Green-based TegulaDeep Cut85points
- Green-bearded HelmetcrestDeep Cut85points
- Green-bellied HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Green-breasted MangoDeep Cut85points
- Green-capped TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Green-celled CattleheartDeep Cut85points
- Green-cheeked ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Green-chinned EuphoniaDeep Cut85points
- Green-crowned BrilliantDeep Cut85points
- Green-crowned PlovercrestDeep Cut85points
- Green-eyed DancerDeep 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.