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
- Atlantic AssimineaDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Bamboo RatDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic barracudinaDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic batfishDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Bay ScallopDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic bigeyeDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic bigeye sixgill sharkDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic bird squidDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic bittersweet clamDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Black SeahareDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Black-throated TrogonDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic blackwing flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic bonitoDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Box JellyDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic brief squidDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic bumperDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Calico ScallopDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic chub mackerelDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic DistorsioDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Encrusting ZoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic False JingleDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic fangjawDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic flashlightfishDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Foam OysterDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic footballfishDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Forest Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Forest Burrowing MouseDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Forest bushmasterDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic forest dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic forest fringe-lipped batDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Forest HocicudoDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Forest OncillaDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Forest RacerDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Forest Red BrocketDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Forest Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic forest tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic forest treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Ghost CrabDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic goldeneye tilefishDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic goliath grouperDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Grey CowryDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Hairback Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic helicopterDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Humming FrogDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Kitten's PawDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic lizardfishDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic lobefin dogfishDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Long-spined Sea UrchinDeep 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.