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
- Lollipop catsharkDeep Cut85points
- Lollyfish Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Lomax SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Lonely Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Long nosed arched coryDeep Cut85points
- Long nosed smudge spot coryDeep Cut85points
- Long Sea WhipDeep Cut85points
- Long Slit Keyhole Sand DollarDeep Cut85points
- Long snouted lancetfishDeep Cut85points
- Long snouted thin-toed frogDeep Cut85points
- Long-billed HermitDeep Cut85points
- Long-billed StarthroatDeep Cut85points
- Long-billed WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Long-billed WrenDeep Cut85points
- Long-bodied Paria LandfrogDeep Cut85points
- Long-clawed mouseDeep Cut85points
- Long-crested Pygmy-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Long-eared FavorinusDeep Cut85points
- Long-finned cambevaDeep Cut85points
- Long-finned coryDeep Cut85points
- Long-finned glass tetraDeep Cut85points
- Long-finned Pilot WhaleDeep Cut85points
- Long-furred Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Long-furred Atlantic Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Long-haired Soft-haired MouseDeep Cut85points
- Long-haired Spiny Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Long-horned Meadow KatydidDeep Cut85points
- Long-horned OwletDeep Cut85points
- Long-jawed orb weaverDeep Cut85points
- Long-legged batDeep Cut85points
- Long-legged Predatory MiteDeep Cut85points
- Long-legged Spitting SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Long-legged swamp frogletDeep Cut85points
- Long-necked cuilanesDeep Cut85points
- Long-nosed armadilloDeep Cut85points
- Long-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Long-nosed Hairy-eyed-sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Long-nosed Short-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Long-nosed Shrew-opossumDeep Cut85points
- Long-nosed Skunk CoryDeep Cut85points
- Long-snouted batDeep Cut85points
- Long-streaked Tussock MothDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Armored Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed CinclodesDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed FlasherDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Ground DoveDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed HermitDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed JaegerDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed little 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.