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
- Jureia snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Jurua anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Juruti casque-headed tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Justinianus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Juturna Underleaf ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Juventus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Ka'apor CapuchinDeep Cut85points
- Kadiwéu Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Kaempfer's Tody-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Kaempfer's WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Kaie rock frogDeep Cut85points
- Kalinowski's AgoutiDeep Cut85points
- Kalinowski's Chat-TyrantDeep Cut85points
- Kalinowski's little mastiff batDeep Cut85points
- Kalinowski's Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Kalinowski's OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Kanaima treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Kanamari White UacariDeep Cut85points
- Kane's coryDeep Cut85points
- Kanshul LongtailDeep Cut85points
- Kaplan's Garagoa treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Kariba Weed Biocontrol WeevilDeep Cut85points
- Karimi's Fat-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Kathleen’s TreerunnerDeep Cut85points
- KatydidDeep Cut85points
- Kaup's arrowtooth eelDeep Cut85points
- Kaup's CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Kautsky's snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Kawall's AmazonDeep Cut85points
- Kaweshkar's spiny-chest frogDeep Cut85points
- Kayapó terrestrial nest-building frogDeep Cut85points
- Kaye's MetronDeep Cut85points
- Kaye's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Keays's Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Keel-Bellied Shade LizardDeep Cut85points
- Keel-billed ToucanDeep Cut85points
- Keel-jawed needle fishDeep Cut85points
- KeelbackDeep Cut85points
- Keelcheek bassDeep Cut85points
- Keeled Lava LizardDeep Cut85points
- Keeled Whorltail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Keeltail needlefishDeep Cut85points
- Keenan's hairy-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Keila HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Kelp curlerDeep Cut85points
- Kelp GooseDeep Cut85points
- Kelp GullDeep Cut85points
- Kelp lace bryozoanDeep Cut85points
- Kelp membraniporaDeep Cut85points
- Kelp wormDeep 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.