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
- Lutz's button frogDeep Cut85points
- Lutz's phyllomedusaDeep Cut85points
- Lutz's Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Lutz's rapids frogDeep Cut85points
- Lutz's river frogDeep Cut85points
- Lutz's snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Lutz's spinythumb frogDeep Cut85points
- Lutz's stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Lutz's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Lutz's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Lutz's tropical bullfrogDeep Cut85points
- Lyca NumberwingDeep Cut85points
- Lycabas HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Lycaste TigerwingDeep Cut85points
- Lyceus LeafwingDeep Cut85points
- Lycisca MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Lyco SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Lyde HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Lyman's RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Lynch's AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Lynch's Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Lynch's Colombian treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Lynch's giant glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Lynch's Leaf FrogDeep Cut85points
- Lynch's Pilalo Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Lynch's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Lynch's rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Lynch's stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Lynch’s swamp frogDeep Cut85points
- Lynch's toadDeep Cut85points
- Lynx PhidianaDeep Cut85points
- Lynx spiderDeep Cut85points
- Lyrcaea Eyed-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Lyre gobyDeep Cut85points
- Lyre-tailed NightjarDeep Cut85points
- Lyrefin pearlfishDeep Cut85points
- Lysias SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Lyside SulphurDeep Cut85points
- Lysimnia TigerwingDeep Cut85points
- Lysippus MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Ma's Night MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Mabel's orchard orb weaverDeep Cut85points
- Mabille's Bent-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Macarena Mountains Snail-eaterDeep Cut85points
- Macarius Tufted-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Macaroni PenguinDeep Cut85points
- MacBryde's PholidobolusDeep Cut85points
- MacConnell's batDeep Cut85points
- MacConnell's bush toadDeep Cut85points
- Macedo Ruiz's Bristly MouseDeep 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.