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
- Grenadier smooth-headDeep Cut85points
- Grey Atlantic AugerDeep Cut85points
- Grey CatbirdDeep Cut85points
- Grey congerDeep Cut85points
- Grey cutthroatDeep Cut85points
- Grey grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Grey gruntDeep Cut85points
- Grey Pileated FinchDeep Cut85points
- Grey snapperDeep Cut85points
- Grey threadfin seabassDeep Cut85points
- Grey triggerfishDeep Cut85points
- Grey wood frogDeep Cut85points
- Grey-eared BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Grey-flanked ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Greybar gruntDeep Cut85points
- Greyspotted Hook PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Grideye fishDeep Cut85points
- Gridi-Papp's terrestrial nest-building frogDeep Cut85points
- Griffin's morayDeep Cut85points
- Grinning Tun SnailDeep Cut85points
- Grippa SkipperDeep Cut85points
- GrisonDeep Cut85points
- Griswold's marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Gro's manticoreDeep Cut85points
- Groove Burrowing UrchinDeep Cut85points
- Groove-billed AniDeep Cut85points
- Groove-billed ToucanetDeep Cut85points
- Groove-toothed Cotton RatDeep Cut85points
- Groove-toothed Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Groovebelly stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Grooved AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Grooved Brain CoralDeep Cut85points
- Grooved-blade Sea WhipDeep Cut85points
- Grooved-jaw worm eelDeep Cut85points
- GrosbeakDeep Cut85points
- Grote's bertholdiaDeep Cut85points
- Ground croakerDeep Cut85points
- Ground cuckooDeep Cut85points
- Ground doveDeep Cut85points
- Ground finchDeep Cut85points
- Ground robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Ground spiderDeep Cut85points
- Ground-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Grouser's hagfishDeep Cut85points
- Groves's TitiDeep Cut85points
- Grovius SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- GruntDeep Cut85points
- Gruta button frogDeep Cut85points
- Guacamayo plump toadDeep 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.