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
- Horsefly-like carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Horsehair wormDeep Cut85points
- Horseman's coryDeep Cut85points
- Hortensia FritillaryDeep Cut85points
- Horton's MabuyaDeep Cut85points
- Hospe mulletDeep Cut85points
- Hospita SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Hosta SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Hostería La Selva treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Hotel Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Hotel Zaracay SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Hound needlefishDeep Cut85points
- Hourglass bassletDeep Cut85points
- Hourglass DolphinDeep Cut85points
- Hourglass morayDeep Cut85points
- Hourglass Plume MothDeep Cut85points
- Hourglass treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Household CasebearerDeep Cut85points
- HoverflyDeep Cut85points
- Hovering gobyDeep Cut85points
- Huachamacari odorous frogDeep Cut85points
- Huahachuco Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Huallaga TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Huambos Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Huancabamba CrescentDeep Cut85points
- Huancabamba Mountain MouseDeep Cut85points
- Huancabamba Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Huancabamba SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Huanchaca Burrowing MouseDeep Cut85points
- Huangana coryDeep Cut85points
- Huanuco Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Huánuco Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Huari myotisDeep Cut85points
- Huayco TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Hubb's OctopusDeep Cut85points
- Hubbs' tilefishDeep Cut85points
- Huber's woodborerDeep Cut85points
- Hübner's OliveDeep Cut85points
- Hubner's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Hübner's TelemiadesDeep Cut85points
- Huddle hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Hudson's Black-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Hudson's CanasteroDeep Cut85points
- Hudson's humming frogDeep Cut85points
- Hudson's lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Hudson's Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Hudsonian GodwitDeep Cut85points
- Huebner's Metalmark ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- HuemulDeep Cut85points
- Huet-huetDeep 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.