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
- Hongslo's dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Hood Lava LizardDeep Cut85points
- Hooded AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Hooded BerryeaterDeep Cut85points
- Hooded CapuchinDeep Cut85points
- Hooded GnateaterDeep Cut85points
- Hooded GrebeDeep Cut85points
- Hooded Mountain TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Hooded Mountain-ToucanDeep Cut85points
- Hooded OwletDeep Cut85points
- Hooded Red-sided OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Hooded SiskinDeep Cut85points
- Hooded Snapping ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Hooded TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Hooded tickspiderDeep Cut85points
- Hooded TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Hooded VisorbearerDeep Cut85points
- Hoogmoed harlequin toadDeep Cut85points
- Hoogmoed's Red-Eyed LandfrogDeep Cut85points
- Hoogmoed's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Hook AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Hook-billed HermitDeep Cut85points
- Hook-billed KiteDeep Cut85points
- Hooked PlecoDeep Cut85points
- HookskateDeep Cut85points
- Hooktooth dogfishDeep Cut85points
- HoploDeep Cut85points
- Hornby's Storm-PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Horned AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Horned blennyDeep Cut85points
- Horned Bristlenose PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Horned coneheadDeep Cut85points
- Horned CootDeep Cut85points
- Horned CurassowDeep Cut85points
- Horned lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Horned LarkDeep Cut85points
- Horned marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Horned SapsuckerDeep Cut85points
- Horned ScreamerDeep Cut85points
- Horned SungemDeep Cut85points
- Horned whiffDeep Cut85points
- Horned woodlizardDeep Cut85points
- HorneroDeep Cut85points
- Hornless blennyDeep Cut85points
- HornwormDeep Cut85points
- Hornworm parasitoid waspDeep Cut85points
- Horse conchDeep Cut85points
- Horse paper waspDeep Cut85points
- Horse-eye jackDeep Cut85points
- HorsefishDeep 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.