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
- Mantagnes dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- MantidflyDeep Cut85points
- Mantipus Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Mantiqueira Humming FrogDeep Cut85points
- Mantiqueira Smooth-horned FrogDeep Cut85points
- Mantis shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Mantled HawkDeep Cut85points
- Mantled HowlerDeep Cut85points
- Mantus MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Manu AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Manu poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Manu Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Manu rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Manu short-tailed batDeep Cut85points
- Manuel's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Manx ShearwaterDeep Cut85points
- Many spotted coryDeep Cut85points
- Many-banded AracariDeep Cut85points
- Many-banded DaggerwingDeep Cut85points
- Many-banded MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Many-banded SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Many-banded treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Many-colored Bush AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Many-colored Chaco FinchDeep Cut85points
- Many-colored Rush TyrantDeep Cut85points
- Many-colored Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Many-plumed MothDeep Cut85points
- Many-ribbed JellyDeep Cut85points
- Many-spotted Blue-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Many-spotted HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Many-spotted Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Many-striped CanasteroDeep Cut85points
- Many-striped Glass-tailed SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Manyscaled blennyDeep Cut85points
- Manytooth congerDeep Cut85points
- Maori bassletDeep Cut85points
- Maori chiefDeep Cut85points
- Map coryDeep Cut85points
- Map treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Mapirica SkipperDeep Cut85points
- MapwingDeep Cut85points
- Maquis CanasteroDeep Cut85points
- MaraDeep Cut85points
- Maracaibo Basin Tegu LizardDeep Cut85points
- Maracaibo basin treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Maracaibo leatherjacketDeep Cut85points
- Maracaibo river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Maracaibo Tody-flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Maracaibo toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Maracaibo Wood TurtleDeep 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.