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
- Ilha Maracá GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Illiger's Saddle-back TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Illiman's Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Illineatus MylonDeep Cut85points
- Ilu-tepui bush toadDeep Cut85points
- Ilus swallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Imaza rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Imbabura treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Imeri Warbling-antbirdDeep Cut85points
- Imitator blennyDeep Cut85points
- Imitator coryDeep Cut85points
- Imitator Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Imma HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Immaculata SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Immaculate Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Immaculate SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Immaculate Tufted-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Imperfida MellanaDeep Cut85points
- Imperial ArcasDeep Cut85points
- Imperial CormorantDeep Cut85points
- Imperial MothDeep Cut85points
- Imperial SnipeDeep Cut85points
- Imperial tortoise beetleDeep Cut85points
- Imperial VenusDeep Cut85points
- Impostor DuskywingDeep Cut85points
- Impostor FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Impostor flame-snakeDeep Cut85points
- Impostor gobyDeep Cut85points
- Impostor SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Impressive Bent-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Imprinted engraved crabDeep Cut85points
- Ina SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Inambari GnatcatcherDeep Cut85points
- Inambari WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- InangaDeep Cut85points
- Inca CalephelisDeep Cut85points
- Inca finchDeep Cut85points
- Inca FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Inca FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Inca Forest Pit ViperDeep Cut85points
- Inca HocicudoDeep Cut85points
- Inca jayDeep Cut85points
- Inca MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Inca Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Inca SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Inca TernDeep Cut85points
- Inca toadDeep Cut85points
- Inca WrenDeep Cut85points
- Incachaca toadDeep Cut85points
- Incan broad-nosed batDeep 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.