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
- Henricus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Hensel's big-headed frogDeep Cut85points
- Hensel's dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Hensel's snakeDeep Cut85points
- Hensel’s swamp frogDeep Cut85points
- Heppner's Grass Tubeworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Heraclea SisterDeep Cut85points
- Heraldica HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Herbivorous Patania MothDeep Cut85points
- Herbst's CorynuraDeep Cut85points
- Herbst's mini-oil diggerDeep Cut85points
- Hercules beetleDeep Cut85points
- Hercules MorphoDeep Cut85points
- Hercules SkimmerDeep Cut85points
- Herennius Blue-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Hermes SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Hermesia SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Hermier's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Hermina's poison frogDeep Cut85points
- HermitDeep Cut85points
- Hermit coryDeep Cut85points
- Hermit Crab AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Hermit SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Hermit Wood WrenDeep Cut85points
- Hermodora MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Hernandez's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Hernandez's short-tailed batDeep Cut85points
- Hernandez's stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Herre's soleDeep Cut85points
- Herrera's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Herrera's SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Herrmann's Water SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Herveo plump toadDeep Cut85points
- Hesionides satyrDeep Cut85points
- Hesperina Eyed-MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Hesperioides SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Hesterberg's SisterDeep Cut85points
- Hesychia HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Hewitson's AgriasDeep Cut85points
- Hewitson’s ClitoDeep Cut85points
- Hewitson's GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Hewitson's MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Hewitson's MetronDeep Cut85points
- Hewitson's OlivewingDeep Cut85points
- Hewitson's PigmyDeep Cut85points
- Hewitson's RidensDeep Cut85points
- Heyer's button frogDeep Cut85points
- Heyer's Leaf FrogDeep Cut85points
- Heyer's snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Heyer's spiny-backed frogDeep 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.