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
- JaegerDeep Cut85points
- Jaeger's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Jaguar catfishDeep Cut85points
- Jaguar leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Jaguar livebearerDeep Cut85points
- Jaguar river crabDeep Cut85points
- Jaguar snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Jaguariaíva tree frogDeep Cut85points
- JaguarundiDeep Cut85points
- Jahn's stream frogDeep Cut85points
- Jaime's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Jalca TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Jamaica LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Jamaica weakfishDeep Cut85points
- Jamaican field cricketDeep Cut85points
- Jamaican fruit-eating batDeep Cut85points
- Jamari Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Jambato toadDeep Cut85points
- Jamei's tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- James' Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- James's anchovyDeep Cut85points
- James's FlamingoDeep Cut85points
- Jameson's SnipeDeep Cut85points
- Jan's Green RacerDeep Cut85points
- Jan's Hognose SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Jan's Snail-eaterDeep Cut85points
- Jan's Tree SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Jandaya ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Jandira toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Janequeo’s LizardDeep Cut85points
- Janias GreenstreakDeep Cut85points
- Jansa's Woolly Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Janthina HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- January GraphicDeep Cut85points
- January tetraDeep Cut85points
- January toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Japanese doryDeep Cut85points
- Japumayo Andes frogDeep Cut85points
- Jaquiá toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- JararacaDeep Cut85points
- JararacussuDeep Cut85points
- Jari toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Jari zebra plecoDeep Cut85points
- Jason Hall's HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Jason's MylonDeep Cut85points
- Jasper ConeDeep Cut85points
- Jasper Dwarf OliveDeep Cut85points
- JataíDeep Cut85points
- Jatapu Angel PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Jatupu Angel PlecoDeep 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.