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
- Lion tamarinDeep Cut85points
- Lion's pawDeep Cut85points
- Lion's Paw Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Lipeo livebearerDeep Cut85points
- Lipped ArkDeep Cut85points
- Lipstick leporinusDeep Cut85points
- Liseta mulletDeep Cut85points
- Lister's Keyhole LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Lisus HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Lita WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Litana SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Litter MothDeep Cut85points
- Little anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Little angel harlequinDeep Cut85points
- Little Arabian CowrieDeep Cut85points
- Little Bear MothDeep Cut85points
- Little big-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Little big-eyed batDeep Cut85points
- Little black serotineDeep Cut85points
- Little Blue HeronDeep Cut85points
- Little BluebottleDeep Cut85points
- Little Brown DarnerDeep Cut85points
- Little Cigarette Harlequin MothDeep Cut85points
- Little ClubskimmerDeep Cut85points
- Little corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Little croakerDeep Cut85points
- Little CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Little Dancer MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Little Deer CowrieDeep Cut85points
- Little devil poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Little EgretDeep Cut85points
- Little fire antDeep Cut85points
- Little Fringed WeevilDeep Cut85points
- Little fruit batDeep Cut85points
- Little fruit-eating batDeep Cut85points
- Little Ground-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Little gulper sharkDeep Cut85points
- Little HermitDeep Cut85points
- Little Horn CaecumDeep Cut85points
- Little Inca FinchDeep Cut85points
- Little mustache spongeDeep Cut85points
- Little NightjarDeep Cut85points
- Little Ochre Lichen MothDeep Cut85points
- Little Patagonian BobtailDeep Cut85points
- Little Pentagon StarDeep Cut85points
- Little Pill WoodlouseDeep Cut85points
- Little Pink UrchinDeep Cut85points
- Little red encrusting coralDeep Cut85points
- Little sea bristleDeep Cut85points
- Little Sea Pill WoodlouseDeep 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.