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
- Magellanic rockcodDeep Cut85points
- Magellanic SnipeDeep Cut85points
- Magellanic spiny sea cradleDeep Cut85points
- Magellanic TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Magellanic TritonDeep Cut85points
- Magellanic Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Magellanic UnicornDeep Cut85points
- Magellanic volcano spongeDeep Cut85points
- Magellanic VoluteDeep Cut85points
- Magellanic WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Magenta PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Magician Tree SnailDeep Cut85points
- Magistrate ConeDeep Cut85points
- Magnificent Feather Duster WormDeep Cut85points
- Magnificent FrigatebirdDeep Cut85points
- Magnificent MegadarnerDeep Cut85points
- Magnificent PodelfinDeep Cut85points
- Magnificent SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Magnificent tritoniaDeep Cut85points
- Magnificent UrchinDeep Cut85points
- Magnum cockleDeep Cut85points
- Magnusson's toadDeep Cut85points
- Magpie TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Maguari StorkDeep Cut85points
- Mahogany gobyDeep Cut85points
- Mahogany sea cradleDeep Cut85points
- Mahogany Shoot BorerDeep Cut85points
- Mahogany snapperDeep Cut85points
- Maicuru Stream PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Maicuru Tiger PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Maicuru Toad PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Maimoune SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Main Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Maize CalligrapherDeep Cut85points
- MalachiteDeep Cut85points
- Malachite DarnerDeep Cut85points
- MalachoDeep Cut85points
- Maldonado redbelly toadDeep Cut85points
- Maldonado Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Maldonado's SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Malleco spiny-chest frogDeep Cut85points
- Malli's Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Mallow Scrub-HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Malpelo barnacle blennyDeep Cut85points
- Malpelo Island Land CrabDeep Cut85points
- Malpelo wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Malvania HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Malvasa rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Malvasa stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Mama Dulu MicrotegusDeep 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.