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
- Atlantic Longarm OctopusDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Mangrove Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Mangrove Ghost CrabDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic manta rayDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic midshipmanDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic moonfishDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic MorumDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Mud-piddockDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic needlefishDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic PapermusselDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Partridge Tun SnailDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Pearl OysterDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic pelagic bassletDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic PetricolidDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic piquitingaDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Plain-xenopsDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic pomfretDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic pygmy devil rayDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic pygmy skateDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic ridleyDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Rock-boring UrchinDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic RoughyDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Royal-flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic rubyfishDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic sabretoothDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic sabretooth anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic sailfishDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic sauryDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Sea PlumesDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Sea PorkDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic seabobDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic sharpnose sharkDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic spadefishDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Spotted DolphinDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic strawberry cockleDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Thorny OysterDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic thread herringDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic torpedoDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Triton SnailDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Water RatDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic White Hoof SnailDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic white marlinDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic White-spotted OctopusDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic White-TernDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Winged OysterDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic Yellow CowrieDeep Cut85points
- Atlas Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Atnius GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Atrato glass frogDeep 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.