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
- Long-tailed MeadowlarkDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed MockingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed PotooDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Reed FinchDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed SylphDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed TyrantDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed WeaselDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed woodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed WoodnymphDeep Cut85points
- Long-tongued Arboreal MouseDeep Cut85points
- Long-tongued batDeep Cut85points
- Long-trained NightjarDeep Cut85points
- Long-tufted Screech-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Long-wattled UmbrellabirdDeep Cut85points
- Long-whiskered catfishDeep Cut85points
- Long-whiskered OwletDeep Cut85points
- Long-whiskered Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Long-winged AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Long-winged HarrierDeep Cut85points
- Longarm brotulaDeep Cut85points
- Longarm Furrow LobsterDeep Cut85points
- Longarm river prawnDeep Cut85points
- Longbarb dragonfishDeep Cut85points
- Longbarb scaly dragonfishDeep Cut85points
- Longbeard grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Longbill spearfishDeep Cut85points
- Longfin barracudinaDeep Cut85points
- Longfin blennyDeep Cut85points
- Longfin damselfishDeep Cut85points
- Longfin drumDeep Cut85points
- Longfin escolarDeep Cut85points
- Longfin flounderDeep Cut85points
- Longfin halfbeakDeep Cut85points
- Longfin Inshore SquidDeep Cut85points
- Longfin killieDeep Cut85points
- Longfin lampfishDeep Cut85points
- Longfin lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Longfin makoDeep Cut85points
- Longfin salemaDeep Cut85points
- Longfin sawtail cat sharkDeep Cut85points
- Longfin scorpionfishDeep 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.