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
- Guachanche barracudaDeep Cut85points
- Guacharaquita glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Guacharaquita Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Guafo Island Long-clawed MouseDeep Cut85points
- Guaiba Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Guaiquinima Green RacerDeep Cut85points
- Guaiquinima Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Guaiquinima WhitestartDeep Cut85points
- Guaira Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Guajira giant glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Guajira stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Gualaceño RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Gualaceo rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Gualecenita stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Guama guppyDeep Cut85points
- Guamara AgoutiDeep Cut85points
- GuanDeep Cut85points
- Guanabara Spotted Night SnakeDeep Cut85points
- GuanacoDeep Cut85points
- Guanay CormorantDeep Cut85points
- Guanes Mushroomtongue SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Guanujo stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Guapimirim tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Guapore corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Guaporé thorny catfishDeep Cut85points
- Guaramacal Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Guaramacal's SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Guaramiranga coryDeep Cut85points
- Guarana coryDeep Cut85points
- Guarani DoridDeep Cut85points
- Guaraní myotisDeep Cut85points
- Guaraqueçaba big-headed frogDeep Cut85points
- Guaratinga dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Guarayo nest-building terrestrial frogDeep Cut85points
- Guardpost SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Guartelá canyon snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Guasapampa Viscacha RatDeep Cut85points
- Guatemalan long-jawed spiderDeep Cut85points
- Guatemalan SarotaDeep Cut85points
- Guatopo giant collared frogDeep Cut85points
- GuavinaDeep Cut85points
- Guayaco dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Guayana pike-congerDeep Cut85points
- Guayapa’s four-eyed frogDeep Cut85points
- Guayaquil CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Guayaquil dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Guayaquil SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Guayaquil WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Guayaquila Blind SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Guayas cichlidDeep 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.