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
- Lace bugDeep Cut85points
- Lace CoralDeep Cut85points
- Lace MurexDeep Cut85points
- Lacerda's coryDeep Cut85points
- Lacertine Turret-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- LacewingDeep Cut85points
- Lacey’s Scrub-HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Lachesis SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Lacrimose Mountain TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Lactos Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Ladder Horn SnailDeep Cut85points
- Ladder KeelbackDeep Cut85points
- Ladder-backed Ethmia MothDeep Cut85points
- Ladder-tailed NightjarDeep Cut85points
- Ladew's Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Lady-in-waiting VenusDeep Cut85points
- Ladybird SpiderDeep Cut85points
- LadyfishDeep Cut85points
- Lafresnaye's PiculetDeep Cut85points
- Lages glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Lagiglia's Marsh RatDeep Cut85points
- Lago Agrio Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Lago Blanco Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Lagoa Nova hatchet-faced tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Lagoa Santa Pink-lipped MouseDeep Cut85points
- Lagoa Santa PunareDeep Cut85points
- Lagoa Santa treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Lagoon catfishDeep Cut85points
- Lagora MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- LaGuaira BachiaDeep Cut85points
- Laguna de los Pozuelos' Rusted FrogDeep Cut85points
- Laguna Raimunda frogDeep Cut85points
- Laguna Terraplén Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Laguna toadDeep Cut85points
- Lake Baptista TitiDeep Cut85points
- Lake Clam ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Lake coryDeep Cut85points
- Lake DuckDeep Cut85points
- Lake Junin FrogDeep Cut85points
- Lake tetraDeep Cut85points
- Lakeside hagfishDeep Cut85points
- Lamarche's SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Lamarck's sheet coralDeep Cut85points
- Lamas rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Lamas' SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Lamas's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Lambert's coryDeep Cut85points
- Lamella Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Lamellose WentletrapDeep Cut85points
- Lami Tuco-tucoDeep 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.