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
- Loveridge's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Low Relief Lettuce CoralDeep Cut85points
- Lower Andes tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Lower Matarony Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Lowfin morayDeep Cut85points
- Lowland Gerbil MouseDeep Cut85points
- Lowland OwlDeep Cut85points
- Lowland PacaDeep Cut85points
- Lowland rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Lowland TapirDeep Cut85points
- Lowland tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Lowland tropical bullfrogDeep Cut85points
- Lowland Yellow-toothed CavyDeep Cut85points
- Lowridge Cactus CoralDeep Cut85points
- Lozano's SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Lubber grasshopperDeep Cut85points
- Lucea-corambeDeep Cut85points
- Lucianus MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Lucifer SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Lucius SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Lucy’s Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Luda SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Ludens SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Luderwaldt's Highland FrogDeep Cut85points
- LugwormDeep Cut85points
- Luis Manuel's tailless batDeep Cut85points
- Luis's yellow-shouldered batDeep Cut85points
- Luminous deepsea cardinalfishDeep Cut85points
- Luminous hakeDeep Cut85points
- Luminous lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Luminous LizardDeep Cut85points
- Luminous Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Lumptail searobinDeep Cut85points
- Lumpy Claw CrabDeep Cut85points
- Lumpy Overgrowing SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Lunate Dove ShellDeep Cut85points
- Lunate Zale MothDeep Cut85points
- Lund's Atlantic Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Lund's TeiidDeep Cut85points
- Lund's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Lund's Water RatDeep Cut85points
- LungfishDeep Cut85points
- Lungless salamanderDeep Cut85points
- Lunulated AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Lupina EmesisDeep Cut85points
- Lurid ArkDeep Cut85points
- Luscombe's Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Lustra SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Lutetia SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Lutz’ GeckoDeep 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.