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
- Armadeira da BahiaDeep Cut85points
- Armadillo antDeep Cut85points
- Armed Box CrabDeep Cut85points
- Armed gruntDeep Cut85points
- Armed snookDeep Cut85points
- Armed tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Armién's myotisDeep Cut85points
- Armored CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Armored catfishDeep Cut85points
- Armored RatDeep Cut85points
- Armored searobinDeep Cut85points
- Armored spiderDeep Cut85points
- Armourhead grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Army-ant Ghost-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- ArmywormDeep Cut85points
- Armyworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Arnaldo's Green RacerDeep Cut85points
- Arndts' treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Arnoux's Beaked WhaleDeep Cut85points
- Aroa Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Aroma SkipperDeep Cut85points
- ArowanaDeep Cut85points
- Arp's rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Arrabal's Suriname ToadDeep Cut85points
- Arrow blennyDeep Cut85points
- Arrow Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Arrow ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Arrow stargazerDeep Cut85points
- Arrow wormDeep Cut85points
- Arrowhead PiculetDeep Cut85points
- Arrowhead shovelnoseDeep Cut85points
- ArrowtailDeep Cut85points
- Artemides SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Artena ClearwingDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Artichoke CoralDeep Cut85points
- Arua dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Aruana toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Aruba Island RattlesnakeDeep Cut85points
- Aruba Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Aruba WhiptailDeep Cut85points
- Aruban Cat-eyed SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Arutam Leaflitter FrogDeep Cut85points
- Asa HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Ascotán Salt Flat FrogDeep Cut85points
- Ash-breasted AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Ash-breasted Sierra FinchDeep Cut85points
- Ash-breasted Tit-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Ash-browed SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Ash-colored CuckooDeep 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.