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
- GuitarritaDeep Cut85points
- Gulala SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Gulf bareye tilefishDeep Cut85points
- Gulf chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Gulf Coast tickDeep Cut85points
- Gulf flounderDeep Cut85points
- Gulf fritillaryDeep Cut85points
- Gulf hakeDeep Cut85points
- Gulf kingcroakerDeep Cut85points
- Gulf pipefishDeep Cut85points
- Gulf Staghorn BryozoanDeep Cut85points
- Gulf WirewormDeep Cut85points
- Gulfweed CrabDeep Cut85points
- Gull-billed TernDeep Cut85points
- Gulper CatfishDeep Cut85points
- Gulper sharkDeep Cut85points
- Gungo highhatDeep Cut85points
- Gunther's banded treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Günther's boafishDeep Cut85points
- Gunther's Brazilian treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Günther's CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Günther's False Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Günther's False Fer-de-lanceDeep Cut85points
- Günther's Forest RacerDeep Cut85points
- Günther's Green LiophisDeep Cut85points
- Günther's Green RacerDeep Cut85points
- Günther's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Günther's Horned FrogDeep Cut85points
- Günther’s lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Günther's Lightbulb LizardDeep Cut85points
- Günther's sun teguDeep Cut85points
- Günther's Whorltail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Guppy Strawberry CockleDeep Cut85points
- Guri sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Gurupi River Spindle SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Guttulate Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- Guyana anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Guyana BachiaDeep Cut85points
- Guyana Black Devil ScorpionDeep Cut85points
- Guyana Blackback Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Guyana Blind SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Guyana Burrowing SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Guyana Humming FrogDeep Cut85points
- Guyana KentropyxDeep Cut85points
- Guyana leaffishDeep Cut85points
- Guyana ThreadsnakeDeep Cut85points
- Guyana white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Guyanan croakerDeep Cut85points
- Guyanan ForestslaterDeep Cut85points
- Guyanan SarotaDeep 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.