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
- Interior treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Intermediate Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Intermediate Lesser Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Intermediate scabbardfishDeep Cut85points
- Interrupted ConeDeep Cut85points
- Interrupted Lineodes MothDeep Cut85points
- Interrupted PeriwinkleDeep Cut85points
- Intertidal Zebra SnailDeep Cut85points
- Intestinal RoundwormDeep Cut85points
- Inti Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Inti TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Invisible CrambidDeep Cut85points
- Ipanema broad-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Iphias MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Iphicleola SisterDeep Cut85points
- Iphidamas CattleheartDeep Cut85points
- Ipojuca catfishDeep Cut85points
- Iporanga tooth carpDeep Cut85points
- Iporanga white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Ipsilon Dart MothDeep Cut85points
- Ipuca Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Iquitos GnatcatcherDeep Cut85points
- Iquitos Humming FrogDeep Cut85points
- Iquitos SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Iquitos thorny catfishDeep Cut85points
- Ira's snookDeep Cut85points
- Irenia MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Iridescent Blue Siphon PyuraDeep Cut85points
- Iridescent Blue TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Iridescent Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Iridistinct CalephelisDeep Cut85points
- Iris CalephelisDeep Cut85points
- Irish mojarraDeep Cut85points
- Isabel's SakiDeep Cut85points
- Isabella's LongwingDeep Cut85points
- Isabelline ghost batDeep Cut85points
- Isbrücker's HypopygusDeep Cut85points
- Isidora LeafwingDeep Cut85points
- Isla Bonita Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Island Apple SnailDeep Cut85points
- Island frillfinDeep Cut85points
- Island frogfishDeep Cut85points
- Island gobyDeep Cut85points
- Island hogfishDeep Cut85points
- Island majorDeep Cut85points
- Island spiny-chest frogDeep Cut85points
- Island trevallyDeep Cut85points
- Ismael's broad-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Ismenius tigerDeep Cut85points
- Isolated BrangasDeep 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.