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-eyed Lion FlyDeep Cut85points
- Green-eyed Owl-ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Green-eyed WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Green-fronted LancebillDeep Cut85points
- Green-headed HillstarDeep Cut85points
- Green-headed shade lizardDeep Cut85points
- Green-headed SootywingDeep Cut85points
- Green-headed TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Green-patch SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Green-rumped ParrotletDeep Cut85points
- Green-shouldered SootywingDeep Cut85points
- Green-spotted BannerDeep Cut85points
- Green-spotted BrangasDeep Cut85points
- Green-spotted whorl-tailed iguanaDeep Cut85points
- Green-stitched MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Green-striped cuilanesDeep Cut85points
- Green-tailed CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Green-tailed Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Green-tailed EmeraldDeep Cut85points
- Green-tailed GoldenthroatDeep Cut85points
- Green-tailed JacamarDeep Cut85points
- Green-tailed TrainbearerDeep Cut85points
- Green-throated MangoDeep Cut85points
- Green-throated tanagerDeep Cut85points
- Green-tinged FlasherDeep Cut85points
- Green-washed LongtailDeep Cut85points
- Green-washed SerdisDeep Cut85points
- Green-washed SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Green-winged SaltatorDeep Cut85points
- Greenband wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Greenbanded gobyDeep Cut85points
- Greenbeak parrotfishDeep Cut85points
- Greenblotch parrotfishDeep Cut85points
- Greenbottle blue tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Greenhall's dog-faced batDeep Cut85points
- Greenhouse OrtheziaDeep Cut85points
- Greening's frogDeep Cut85points
- Greenish ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Greenish PufflegDeep Cut85points
- Greenish SchiffornisDeep Cut85points
- Greenish TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Greenish Yellow FinchDeep Cut85points
- Greenish-red RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Greenland manefishDeep Cut85points
- GreenletDeep Cut85points
- Greenspotted Plane PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Greenstreaked eartheaterDeep Cut85points
- Greenstripe pencilfishDeep Cut85points
- Gregg's hagfishDeep Cut85points
- GrenadierDeep 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.