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
- Leaden AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Leaden worm eelDeep Cut85points
- Leading Red-ringDeep Cut85points
- Leaf beetleDeep Cut85points
- Leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Leaf miner mothDeep Cut85points
- Leaf scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Leaf Stream PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Leaf-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Leaf-eared mouseDeep Cut85points
- Leaf-footed bugDeep Cut85points
- Leaf-mimic katydidDeep Cut85points
- Leaf-nosed anoleDeep Cut85points
- Leaf-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Leaf-toed geckoDeep Cut85points
- Leafcutter beeDeep Cut85points
- LeaffishDeep Cut85points
- LeafhopperDeep Cut85points
- Leafroller mothDeep Cut85points
- Leafscale gulper sharkDeep Cut85points
- LeaftosserDeep Cut85points
- LeafwingDeep Cut85points
- Leafy Jewel BoxDeep Cut85points
- Leafy SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Leander FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Leandra salamanderDeep Cut85points
- Leaping RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Least big-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Least BitternDeep Cut85points
- Least GrebeDeep Cut85points
- Least NighthawkDeep Cut85points
- Least pencilfishDeep Cut85points
- Least PreponaDeep Cut85points
- Least Pygmy-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Least SaddlebagsDeep Cut85points
- Least SandpiperDeep Cut85points
- Least Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Least SeedsnipeDeep Cut85points
- Least Storm-PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Least TernDeep Cut85points
- Leather bassDeep Cut85points
- Leather jacket toniciaDeep Cut85points
- Leather-backed PlatydorisDeep Cut85points
- LeatherjacketDeep Cut85points
- Leatherleaf Fern Borer MothDeep Cut85points
- Leatherleaf slugDeep Cut85points
- Lebbaeus Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Lebeau's Silk MothDeep Cut85points
- Lebranche mulletDeep Cut85points
- Led Zeppelin's Rain 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.