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
- Jointed Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Joinville CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Jolthead porgyDeep Cut85points
- Joly's frogDeep Cut85points
- Joly’s snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Jonathan's LanceheadDeep Cut85points
- Jondachi tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Jones' SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Jonkers's ClitoDeep Cut85points
- Jora SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Jordan's casque-headed treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Jordan’s dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Jordan's snapperDeep Cut85points
- Joseph HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Josephus Owl-ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Joshua's blind snakeDeep Cut85points
- Jost's RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Juami river rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Juan Deriba killifishDeep Cut85points
- Juan Fernandez FirecrownDeep Cut85points
- Juan Fernandez Fur SealDeep Cut85points
- Juan Fernandez PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Juan Fernández polycladDeep Cut85points
- Juan Fernández rock lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Juan Fernandez Tit-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Juan Fernandez trevallyDeep Cut85points
- Jucunda ClearwingDeep Cut85points
- Jujuy Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Jujuy Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Julia butterflyDeep Cut85points
- Julia's bivalved slugDeep Cut85points
- Juliaca four-eyed frogDeep Cut85points
- JulietteDeep Cut85points
- Jullien's exochellaDeep Cut85points
- Jumandi Mountain MouseDeep Cut85points
- Jumbie tetaDeep Cut85points
- Jumping tetraDeep Cut85points
- Jungle SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Jungle toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Junin Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Junin AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Junin CanasteroDeep Cut85points
- Junin Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Junin GrebeDeep Cut85points
- Junin Red SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Junín Riparian FrogDeep Cut85points
- Junin Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Junin TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Juniper Geometer MothDeep Cut85points
- Juno SilverspotDeep 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.