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
- Hake weakfishDeep Cut85points
- HakelingDeep Cut85points
- Halciones HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Half naked gobyDeep Cut85points
- Half-banded stargazerDeep Cut85points
- Half-blind SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Half-Blue HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Half-collared SparrowDeep Cut85points
- Half-naked hatchetfishDeep Cut85points
- Half-naked Pen ShellDeep Cut85points
- Half-silvered SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Half-smooth OdostomeDeep Cut85points
- Half-striped Short-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Half-tailed SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Halfbanded pike cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Halfbanded pyrrhulinaDeep Cut85points
- HalfbeakDeep Cut85points
- Halfline hemiodusDeep Cut85points
- Halfline leporinusDeep Cut85points
- Halfstriped tonguefishDeep Cut85points
- Halimede Eurybia ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Hall's Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Haller's round rayDeep Cut85points
- Halloween CrabDeep Cut85points
- Hamann's FlabellinaDeep Cut85points
- HamletDeep Cut85points
- Hammaptera MothDeep Cut85points
- Hammock SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Hammond's Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Hampatusami Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Hancock's blennyDeep Cut85points
- Hancock's River PrawnDeep Cut85points
- Handley's big-eyed batDeep Cut85points
- Handley's myotisDeep Cut85points
- Handley's nectar batDeep Cut85points
- Handley's Short-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Handley's Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Handley's tailless batDeep Cut85points
- Handlirsch's Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Handsome FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Handsome FruiteaterDeep Cut85points
- Hangnest Tody-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Hanno BlueDeep Cut85points
- Hansen's lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Hapuku wreckfishDeep Cut85points
- Harald's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Hard Razor ClamDeep Cut85points
- Hardhead silversideDeep Cut85points
- Hardtail congerDeep Cut85points
- Hardtail morayDeep 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.