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
- Longtail stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Longtail Tadpole ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Longtail tonguefishDeep Cut85points
- Longtail WhiptailDeep Cut85points
- Longtailed jawfishDeep Cut85points
- Longtailed Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Longtrunk congerDeep Cut85points
- Longuemare's SunangelDeep Cut85points
- Longwing CrescentDeep Cut85points
- Longwing spinyfinDeep Cut85points
- LonomiaDeep Cut85points
- LookdownDeep Cut85points
- Loop wormDeep Cut85points
- Looper mothDeep Cut85points
- LoosejawDeep Cut85points
- Loosescale grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Looseskin eelpoutDeep Cut85points
- Loosetooth parrotfishDeep Cut85points
- Lopez's DoridDeep Cut85points
- Lorda SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Lorenz's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Loreto coryDeep Cut85points
- Loreto Leaf FrogDeep Cut85points
- Loreto panda coryDeep Cut85points
- Loreto tetraDeep Cut85points
- Lorna drumDeep Cut85points
- Loruhama EyemarkDeep Cut85points
- Los Alisos Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Los Amigos Leaf FrogDeep Cut85points
- Los Aranguren Paramo FrogDeep Cut85points
- Los Auribios rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Los Bacos tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Los Cedros RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Los Conejos Short-banded Paramo FrogDeep Cut85points
- Los Cristales leopard lizardDeep Cut85points
- Los Frailes WhiptailDeep Cut85points
- Los Patos Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Los Tayos rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Losos’s anoleDeep Cut85points
- Lost SisterDeep Cut85points
- Lota SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Lotana SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Lotus Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Louisiana Pygmy Snapping AntDeep Cut85points
- Louisiana WaterthrushDeep Cut85points
- Louse flyDeep Cut85points
- LouvarDeep Cut85points
- Lovely hatchetfishDeep Cut85points
- Lovely leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Loveridge's Ground SnakeDeep 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.