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
- Himella SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Hirlanda WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Hirsuta HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Hirta SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Hispa SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Hispa thoracicaDeep Cut85points
- Hispanic Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Hispaniolan Giant TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Hister beetleDeep Cut85points
- Hitchhiker AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Hoary FoxDeep Cut85points
- Hoary PufflegDeep Cut85points
- Hoary skipperDeep Cut85points
- Hoary-throated SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Hobart's AnadiaDeep Cut85points
- Hobbs' treefrogDeep Cut85points
- HocicudoDeep Cut85points
- Hocking's Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Hoedeman's HypopygusDeep Cut85points
- Hoehn's robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Hoffmann's Two-toed SlothDeep Cut85points
- Hoffmanns's TitiDeep Cut85points
- Hoffmanns's WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Hog-nosed skunkDeep Cut85points
- HogchokerDeep Cut85points
- Hoge's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Hoge's MabuyaDeep Cut85points
- Hoge’s Toadhead TurtleDeep Cut85points
- Hoge's Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- HogfishDeep Cut85points
- Hognose lineate BlackheadDeep Cut85points
- Hognose pit viperDeep Cut85points
- Hognose snakeDeep Cut85points
- Hognosed brochisDeep Cut85points
- Hola Vida rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Holland's ToothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Hollow stardrumDeep Cut85points
- Hollow-spotted Blepharomastix MothDeep Cut85points
- Hollow-spotted ProminentDeep Cut85points
- Hollowsnout grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Holmberg's Desert TeguDeep Cut85points
- Holt's robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Homochromus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Honda CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Honduran Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Honeycomb cowfishDeep Cut85points
- Honeycomb morayDeep Cut85points
- Honeycomb PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Honeycomb tobyDeep Cut85points
- HoneycreeperDeep 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.