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
- MacFarlane's stream frogDeep Cut85points
- Machado's snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Mache Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- MacheteDeep Cut85points
- Machu Picchu Andean LizardDeep Cut85points
- Machu Picchu Inca RatDeep Cut85points
- Macia SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Mackerel scadDeep Cut85points
- Macleannan's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Macleay's OwlflyDeep Cut85points
- MacNeill's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Macola's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Macondo Spindle SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Maculosa SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Macuma leaflitter frogDeep Cut85points
- Madamango sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Madeira butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- Madeira lantern fishDeep Cut85points
- Madeira Mushroomtongue SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Madeira plecoDeep Cut85points
- Madeira SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Madeiran smooth-headDeep Cut85points
- Madre de Dios Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Madre de Dios snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Madre de Dios thin-toed frogDeep Cut85points
- Madyes SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Magdalena AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Magdalena cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Magdalena giant glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Magdalena river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Magdalena River turtleDeep Cut85points
- Magdalena rivulusDeep Cut85points
- Magdalena rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Magdalena TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Magdalena tiger catfishDeep Cut85points
- Magdalena Valley CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Magdalena Water RatDeep Cut85points
- Magellan plunderfishDeep Cut85points
- Magellan ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Magellan skateDeep Cut85points
- Magellan's encrusting soft coralDeep Cut85points
- Magellan's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Magellanic Copper LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Magellanic CormorantDeep Cut85points
- Magellanic Diving-PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Magellanic green spiderDeep Cut85points
- Magellanic Horned OwlDeep Cut85points
- Magellanic OystercatcherDeep Cut85points
- Magellanic PenguinDeep Cut85points
- Magellanic PloverDeep 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.