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
- Mambai casque-headed tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Mamirauá Spindle SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Mammaea SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Mammoth CowrieDeep Cut85points
- Mammoth SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Mamore Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Mamoré coryDeep Cut85points
- Man-of-war fishDeep Cut85points
- Manabi dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Manabi Hognose PitviperDeep Cut85points
- ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Manamo anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Manatee TreesnailDeep Cut85points
- Manaus harlequin toadDeep Cut85points
- Manaus mouse catfishDeep Cut85points
- Manaus slender-legged treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Manaus snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Manaus tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Mandarin NicaDeep Cut85points
- Mandarin PlecoDeep Cut85points
- MandiDeep Cut85points
- MandubaDeep Cut85points
- Manduriacu glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Maned FrogletDeep Cut85points
- Mangaratiba snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Mango plecoDeep Cut85points
- Mango seed spongeDeep Cut85points
- Mango SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove blennyDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove crabDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove Cupped OysterDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove DarnerDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove FinchDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove gobyDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove Hermit CrabDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove PeriwinkleDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove RailDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove rivulusDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove Root CrabDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove Tree CrabDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove TunicateDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove Upsidedown JellyDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Manicore Warbling-antbirdDeep Cut85points
- Manicou CrabDeep Cut85points
- Manis SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Mann's Soft-haired MouseDeep Cut85points
- Manrique snouted treefrogDeep 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.