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
- Large four-eyed frogDeep Cut85points
- Large Four-spotted Scoliid WaspDeep Cut85points
- Large fruit-eating batDeep Cut85points
- Large Ground FinchDeep Cut85points
- Large GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Large Hairy ArmadilloDeep Cut85points
- Large Imported Big-headed AntDeep Cut85points
- Large Long-clawed MouseDeep Cut85points
- Large Mexican Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Large Orange SulphurDeep Cut85points
- Large Paectes MothDeep Cut85points
- Large Snouted PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Large Spiny StarDeep Cut85points
- Large StrigillaDeep Cut85points
- Large Tree FinchDeep Cut85points
- Large Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Large Warted DorisDeep Cut85points
- Large Wax ScaleDeep Cut85points
- Large WoodskimmerDeep Cut85points
- Large-banded blennyDeep Cut85points
- Large-billed AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Large-billed Seed FinchDeep Cut85points
- Large-billed TernDeep Cut85points
- Large-eared Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Large-eye grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Large-eyed rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Large-fin pipefishDeep Cut85points
- Large-footed TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Large-headed FlatbillDeep Cut85points
- Large-headed glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Large-headed leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Large-nosed wood turtleDeep Cut85points
- Large-scale lantern fishDeep Cut85points
- Large-scaled lantern fishDeep Cut85points
- Large-scaled spinycheek sleeperDeep Cut85points
- Large-spotted Seed BugDeep Cut85points
- Large-tailed AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Large-tailed DoveDeep Cut85points
- Large-toothed congerDeep Cut85points
- Largehead congerDeep Cut85points
- Largehead hairtailDeep Cut85points
- Largemouth blennyDeep Cut85points
- Largemouth perchDeep Cut85points
- Largenose catsharkDeep Cut85points
- Larger Pygmy Mole GrasshopperDeep Cut85points
- Largescale fat snookDeep Cut85points
- Largescale foureyesDeep Cut85points
- Largescale LizardDeep Cut85points
- Largescale tonguefishDeep Cut85points
- Largespine velvet dogfishDeep 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.