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
- Atrato sliderDeep Cut85points
- Atropos RoachDeep Cut85points
- Attenborough's robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Attenuate SylphDeep Cut85points
- Attenuated Date MusselDeep Cut85points
- Attenuated spider fishDeep Cut85points
- AttilaDeep Cut85points
- Atuen AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Atys HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Auda HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Audubon's ShearwaterDeep Cut85points
- Auger shellDeep Cut85points
- Auginus LongtailDeep Cut85points
- August's Bluebloom TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Aulestes DoctorDeep Cut85points
- Aura HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Aurelius SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Aureola LeafwingDeep Cut85points
- Auricled DarnerDeep Cut85points
- Aurora MorphoDeep Cut85points
- Austin's AgunaDeep Cut85points
- Austin's MylonDeep Cut85points
- Austral BlackbirdDeep Cut85points
- Austral CanasteroDeep Cut85points
- Austral codDeep Cut85points
- Austral lightfishDeep Cut85points
- Austral NegritoDeep Cut85points
- Austral Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Austral ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Austral Pygmy-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Austral RailDeep Cut85points
- Austral SaddlebagsDeep Cut85points
- Austral ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Austromendocino Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Autumna SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Auxo Bent-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Auyantepui bush toadDeep Cut85points
- Auyantepui carrying frogDeep Cut85points
- Auyantepui Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Avanavero coryDeep Cut85points
- Avelino's Smooth Horned FrogDeep Cut85points
- Avian Vampire FlyDeep Cut85points
- Avocado seed mothDeep Cut85points
- AvocetDeep Cut85points
- Awa dog-faced batDeep Cut85points
- Awa rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Awajun salamanderDeep Cut85points
- Axelrod's MoenkhausiaDeep Cut85points
- Axelrod's tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Ayacucho Andes FrogDeep 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.