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
- Hugo's spiny-chest frogDeep Cut85points
- Huicundo RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Huigra SootywingDeep Cut85points
- Huila AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Huila glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Huila Spindle SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Huila stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Huinay cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Huinay's cactus spongeDeep Cut85points
- HujetaDeep Cut85points
- Hula Skirt SiphonophoreDeep Cut85points
- Hulse's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Humaita AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Human fleaDeep Cut85points
- Human pinwormDeep Cut85points
- Human WhipwormDeep Cut85points
- Humboldt Current krillDeep Cut85points
- Humboldt grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Humboldt PenguinDeep Cut85points
- Humboldt SquidDeep Cut85points
- Humboldt's big-eared brown batDeep Cut85points
- Humboldt's glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Humboldt’s glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Humboldt's Night MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Humboldt's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Humboldt's SapphireDeep Cut85points
- Humboldt's Squirrel MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Humboldt's tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Humic Marsh CrabDeep Cut85points
- Hummelinck's Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Hummingbird TetraDeep Cut85points
- Hump CoralDeep Cut85points
- Hump coryDeep Cut85points
- Humpback anglerfishDeep Cut85points
- Humpback gruntDeep Cut85points
- Humpback smooth-houndDeep Cut85points
- Humpback Western dogfishDeep Cut85points
- Humpbacked piranhaDeep Cut85points
- Humped SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Humped Trashline OrbweaverDeep Cut85points
- Hunchback scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Hundred fathom moraDeep Cut85points
- Huron SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Hussain's Eyelash-PitviperDeep Cut85points
- Husson's yellow batDeep Cut85points
- Hutchins' treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Hyacinth gliderDeep Cut85points
- Hyacinth VisorbearerDeep Cut85points
- Hyagnis SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Hyaline grass bugDeep 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.