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
- Lamp shellDeep Cut85points
- Lampetia HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Lamplight ActinoteDeep Cut85points
- Lamprus FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Lance-tailed ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Lanceback treefrogDeep Cut85points
- LancebillDeep Cut85points
- LanceheadDeep Cut85points
- LanceletDeep Cut85points
- Lanceolated MonkletDeep Cut85points
- Lancer dragonetDeep Cut85points
- Lancer red banner blennyDeep Cut85points
- LancetfishDeep Cut85points
- Lancini's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Lancini's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Land crabDeep Cut85points
- Land iguanaDeep Cut85points
- Land snailDeep Cut85points
- Landia silversideDeep Cut85points
- Lane snapperDeep Cut85points
- Langer's serotineDeep Cut85points
- Langguth's Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- LaniisomaDeep Cut85points
- Lansberg's Hog-nosed PitviperDeep Cut85points
- Lansdorf's CrescentDeep Cut85points
- Lantana Flower GallmiteDeep Cut85points
- Lantana HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Lantana HispidDeep Cut85points
- Lantana Lace BugDeep Cut85points
- Lantana LeaftierDeep Cut85points
- Lantana MothDeep Cut85points
- Lantana Plume MothDeep Cut85points
- Lantana Scrub-HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Lantana Stick MothDeep Cut85points
- Lantana treehopperDeep Cut85points
- Lantern bassDeep Cut85points
- Lantern bugDeep Cut85points
- LanternfishDeep Cut85points
- LanternsharkDeep Cut85points
- Laoma SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Lappet mothDeep Cut85points
- Lappetlip clingfishDeep Cut85points
- LapwingDeep Cut85points
- Lara Andean collared frogDeep Cut85points
- Lara myotisDeep Cut85points
- Large banded keyhole limpetDeep Cut85points
- Large Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Large ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Large Fernandina Galapagos MouseDeep Cut85points
- Large Flower CoralDeep 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.