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
- Largespot river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Largespot tetraDeep Cut85points
- Largetooth cookiecutter sharkDeep Cut85points
- Largetooth sawfishDeep Cut85points
- LarkDeep Cut85points
- Lark-like BrushrunnerDeep Cut85points
- Larvophile dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Las Bayas frogDeep Cut85points
- Las Cruces AeolidDeep Cut85points
- Las Damas River LizardDeep Cut85points
- Las Escaleras’ skunk frogDeep Cut85points
- Las Gralarias glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Las Hermosas Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Las Lomitas white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Lasalle's Fishing SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Lasalle's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Lasciva SarotaDeep Cut85points
- Lassaux's SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Lasso-Alcala's Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Latagus HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Lateral striped pike cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Lateral striped tetraDeep Cut85points
- Lateral-lined Water BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Lathy's HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Latrea SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Latreille's HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Laughing FalconDeep Cut85points
- Laughing GullDeep Cut85points
- Laulao catfishDeep Cut85points
- Laura’s glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Laura's lantern fishDeep Cut85points
- Laura's SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Laureatus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Laureolus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Lausus HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Lava GullDeep Cut85points
- Lava HeronDeep Cut85points
- Lava lizardDeep Cut85points
- LaVal's disk-winged batDeep Cut85points
- LaVal's myotisDeep Cut85points
- Lavender Rope SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Laverna MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Laviana White-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Lawrence's ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Lawson's Night MothDeep Cut85points
- Layered Clasping BarnacleDeep Cut85points
- Lazuline SabrewingDeep Cut85points
- Lazy Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Leach's Storm-PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Lead Worm LizardDeep 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.