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
- Head-and-taillight tetraDeep Cut85points
- Headlight CockroachDeep Cut85points
- Headlight fishDeep Cut85points
- Headspotted Stream PlecoDeep Cut85points
- HeadstanderDeep Cut85points
- Heaping Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Heart urchinDeep Cut85points
- Heart Urchin Pea CrabDeep Cut85points
- Heath's Tropical RacerDeep Cut85points
- Heath's Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Heavy-ribbed VenusDeep Cut85points
- Hebrew voluteDeep Cut85points
- Hecebolus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Hector's Beaked WhaleDeep Cut85points
- Hector's lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Hegesippe FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Helena's marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Helena's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Helicid PteropodDeep Cut85points
- HeliconianDeep Cut85points
- Helicopter damselflyDeep Cut85points
- Helixus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Heller's barracudaDeep Cut85points
- Heller's broad-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Heller's Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Heller's Stingless BeeDeep Cut85points
- Hellmayr's PipitDeep Cut85points
- Hellmich's rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Hellmich's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Helmet JellyDeep Cut85points
- Helmet shellDeep Cut85points
- Helmet vaseDeep Cut85points
- HelmetcrestDeep Cut85points
- Helmeted CurassowDeep Cut85points
- Helmeted IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Helmeted ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Helmeted marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Helmeted Pygmy-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Helmeted water toadDeep Cut85points
- Helmeted WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Helmeted worm lizardDeep Cut85points
- Helvetia dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Hemes SkipperDeep Cut85points
- HemispingusDeep Cut85points
- Hemphill FileclamDeep Cut85points
- Hemprich's Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Henia-Camiare Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Henle's slender-legged treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Henle's snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Henna-hooded Foliage-gleanerDeep 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.