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
- Lesser ScaupDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Short-winged Mole CricketDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Shrike-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Lesser snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Lesser spear-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Starlet CoralDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Swallow-tailed SwiftDeep Cut85points
- Lesser swimming frogDeep Cut85points
- Lesser treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Lesser VioletearDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Wagtail-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Windward SkinkDeep Cut85points
- Lesser WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Yellow-headed VultureDeep Cut85points
- Lesser yellow-shouldered batDeep Cut85points
- Lesser YellowlegsDeep Cut85points
- Lesson's Saddle-back TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Lesson's SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Leticia coryDeep Cut85points
- Leticia swamp frogDeep Cut85points
- Letter openerDeep Cut85points
- Lettered AracariDeep Cut85points
- Lettered OliveDeep Cut85points
- Lettuce BryozoanDeep Cut85points
- Lettuce CoralDeep Cut85points
- Lettuce Sea SlugDeep Cut85points
- Leuce YellowDeep Cut85points
- Leucomelas SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Leucosticta eartheaterDeep Cut85points
- Leuctra SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Lewis's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Leymebamba AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Lichen AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Lichen katydidDeep Cut85points
- Lichen mothDeep Cut85points
- Lichen-carrying Green LacewingDeep Cut85points
- Lichtenstein's Green RacerDeep Cut85points
- Lifted OwletDeep Cut85points
- Light bushy galeopsisDeep Cut85points
- Light coryDeep Cut85points
- Light rubbernose plecoDeep Cut85points
- Light yellow chicken-liver spongeDeep Cut85points
- Light-coloured spiny sea cucumberDeep Cut85points
- Light-crowned SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Light-mantled AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
- Light-spotted Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Lightbulb LizardDeep Cut85points
- LightfishDeep Cut85points
- Lightning NeriteDeep Cut85points
- Lightning PitarDeep 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.