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
- Hyaline metalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Hyaline-winged stingless beeDeep Cut85points
- Hyboma SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Hydaspes Eighty-EightDeep Cut85points
- HydraDeep Cut85points
- HydroidDeep Cut85points
- Hydrophilic PodelfinDeep Cut85points
- Hylesia mothDeep Cut85points
- Hypargyra SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Hypocala MothDeep Cut85points
- Hypsea HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- I-ClitoDeep Cut85points
- Iack's Red-rumped AgoutiDeep Cut85points
- Iambe HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Ian's Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Ibague AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Ibarra Snail-eaterDeep Cut85points
- Iberá seedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Ibhara SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Ibicui Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Ibirapitanga canebrake tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Ibis SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Ibiti sucker characinDeep Cut85points
- Ibitipoca dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Ibitipoca tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Ibitipoca treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Ica Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Icacos white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Icana coryDeep Cut85points
- IcefishDeep Cut85points
- Ichneumon waspDeep Cut85points
- Idae TigerwingDeep Cut85points
- Igaracu marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Igarapé catfishDeep Cut85points
- Ignita Wasp MothDeep Cut85points
- Ignorans SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Igor's Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Igrapiúna snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Iguaçu livebearerDeep Cut85points
- Iguana TickDeep Cut85points
- Iguape dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Iguape robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Iguarasse Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Ihering's AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Ihering's BrucieDeep Cut85points
- Ihering's Fathead AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Ihering's snakeDeep Cut85points
- Ihering's Three-striped OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Ilha de Porcos Pequena snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Ilha de Santa Catarina tropical bullfrogDeep 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.