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
- Kitefin sharkDeep Cut85points
- Kizorian's Lightbulb LizardDeep Cut85points
- Klages's AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Klages's AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Klappenbach’s red-bellied toadDeep Cut85points
- Klauber's blind snakeDeep Cut85points
- Klebba's Eyelash-PitviperDeep Cut85points
- Klebba's Snail-EaterDeep Cut85points
- Klug’s ClearwingDeep Cut85points
- Kluge's Dwarf GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Knaacks coryDeep Cut85points
- KnifefishDeep Cut85points
- Knobbed ArgonautDeep Cut85points
- Knobbed Keyhole LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Knobbed Mud CrabDeep Cut85points
- Knobbed Pacific IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Knobbly ZoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Knobby AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Knobby brain coralDeep Cut85points
- Knobby Cactus CoralDeep Cut85points
- Knobby ScallopDeep Cut85points
- Knobby star coralDeep Cut85points
- KnotDeep Cut85points
- Knot-horn MothDeep Cut85points
- Knotfinger Mud CrabDeep Cut85points
- Knotted Thread HydroidDeep Cut85points
- Knudsen's thin-toed frogDeep Cut85points
- KodkodDeep Cut85points
- Koechlin's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Koefoed's smooth-headDeep Cut85points
- Koepcke's hairy-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Koepcke's HermitDeep Cut85points
- Koepcke's Screech-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Koford's Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Koford's Puna MouseDeep Cut85points
- Kokoe poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Kokraimoro tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Kolyma Eighty-eightDeep Cut85points
- Konrad's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Koslowsky's BlackheadDeep Cut85points
- Kosñipata Big-headed FrogDeep Cut85points
- Kotosh Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Kotosh Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Kratt's lichen mantisDeep Cut85points
- Krebs' hairy tritonDeep Cut85points
- Krefft's smooth-headDeep Cut85points
- Krieg's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- KrobiaDeep Cut85points
- Krone's flat suckermouth catfishDeep Cut85points
- Kroyer's deep-sea angler fishDeep 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.