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
- Ledeci's Forest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Ledge treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Leech's fathead anoleDeep Cut85points
- Left-handed jewel boxDeep Cut85points
- Leftraru`s LizardDeep Cut85points
- Legless searsidDeep Cut85points
- Lehmann's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Lehmann's poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Lehmann's rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Leila Pessôa’s Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Lema treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Lema's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Lemaitre's mosquitofishDeep Cut85points
- Lemon antDeep Cut85points
- Lemon dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Lemon GuppyDeep Cut85points
- Lemon MothDeep Cut85points
- Lemon Patch TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Lemon sharkDeep Cut85points
- Lemon tetraDeep Cut85points
- Lemon-browed FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Lemon-chested GreenletDeep Cut85points
- Lemon-rumped tanagerDeep Cut85points
- Lemon-spectacled TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Lemon-throated BarbetDeep Cut85points
- Lemon-tipped HelicopterDeep Cut85points
- Lemoneye gruntDeep Cut85points
- Lemonspotted PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Lemur leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Lemurine Night MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Lencates MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Lenda SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Lenis SootywingDeep Cut85points
- Lenocinium MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Lenz’ IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Leon's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Leopard coryDeep Cut85points
- Leopard corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Leopard cusk eelDeep Cut85points
- Leopard FlatwormDeep Cut85points
- Leopard frog plecoDeep Cut85points
- Leopard IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Leopard KeelbackDeep Cut85points
- Leopard numbfishDeep Cut85points
- Leopard PeckoltiaDeep Cut85points
- Leopard plecoDeep Cut85points
- Leopard rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Leopard round stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Leopard Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Leopard SealDeep 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.