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
- Ash-colored Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Ash-colored TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Ash-lipped apistoDeep Cut85points
- Ash-throated AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Ash-throated CasiornisDeep Cut85points
- Ash-throated CrakeDeep Cut85points
- Ash-throated GnateaterDeep Cut85points
- Ash-winged AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Ashaninka Inca RatDeep Cut85points
- Ashaninka Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Asháninka robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Ashy AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Ashy Chinchilla RatDeep Cut85points
- Ashy Gray Lady BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Ashy Pink Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Ashy TitiDeep Cut85points
- Ashy-bellied Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Ashy-headed GooseDeep Cut85points
- Ashy-headed GreenletDeep Cut85points
- Ashy-headed TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Ashy-tailed SwiftDeep Cut85points
- Ashy-throated ChlorospingusDeep Cut85points
- Asine LongtailDeep Cut85points
- Aspernatus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Aspila SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Aspitha FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Assassin bugDeep Cut85points
- Assembly MothDeep Cut85points
- Astala Eighty-eightDeep Cut85points
- Astarte eighty-eightDeep Cut85points
- Asteria MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Astyalus SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Astyoche satyrDeep Cut85points
- Asymmetric SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Atacama grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Atacama myotisDeep Cut85points
- Atacama toadDeep Cut85points
- Atacama Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Atacamen Pacific IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Atahuallpa Saphenophis SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Atahuallpai SootywingDeep Cut85points
- Atalanta SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Atamisqui carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Atena HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Atesa HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Athletic Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Atillo Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- AtipaDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic anchovetaDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic angel sharkDeep 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.