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
- Hardwood Stump BorerDeep Cut85points
- Hardy's CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Harelip cuskDeep Cut85points
- Harlequin AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Harlequin bassDeep Cut85points
- Harlequin beetleDeep Cut85points
- Harlequin Blue FelimidaDeep Cut85points
- Harlequin Glass-slugDeep Cut85points
- Harlequin MiterDeep Cut85points
- Harlequin PlushbackDeep Cut85points
- Harlequin poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Harlequin Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Harlequin Sea GoddessDeep Cut85points
- Harlequin ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Harlequin toadDeep Cut85points
- Harlequin wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Harmless serotineDeep Cut85points
- Harmonia TigerwingDeep Cut85points
- Harmony SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Harp-winged Tripudia MothDeep Cut85points
- HarrierDeep Cut85points
- Harris's HawkDeep Cut85points
- Harrison Ford's Slender SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Hart's rivulusDeep Cut85points
- Hartt's Brain CoralDeep Cut85points
- Hartweg's Snail-eating SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Harvest mouseDeep Cut85points
- Harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Harvey's Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Harvey's BlackheadDeep Cut85points
- Haseman's GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Haseman's toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Hassan GreenstreakDeep Cut85points
- HatchetfishDeep Cut85points
- Haunted cuilanesDeep Cut85points
- Hauxwell's ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Havila HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Hawaiian Beet Webworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Hawaiian halosaurid fishDeep Cut85points
- Hawbeack BlackheadDeep Cut85points
- Hawk eagleDeep Cut85points
- HawkfishDeep Cut85points
- Hawkwing ConchDeep Cut85points
- Hay's snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Haydee's rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Hays' RocksnailDeep Cut85points
- Hayward's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Hazel-fronted Pygmy-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Hazy skipperDeep Cut85points
- Head-and-tail-light fishDeep 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.