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
- Marbled Wood-QuailDeep Cut85points
- Marc's Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Marca's MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Marcapata SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Marcapata Valley CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Marcela’s BachiaDeep Cut85points
- March flyDeep Cut85points
- Marco Reyes's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Marcus' AeolidDeep Cut85points
- Mareike's tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Mares’ Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Margarita indigo snakeDeep Cut85points
- Margarita Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Margarita murexDeep Cut85points
- Margarita SkinkDeep Cut85points
- MargayDeep Cut85points
- Margay pencil catfishDeep Cut85points
- Marginate snailfishDeep Cut85points
- Margined flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- Margined Shining Leaf ChaferDeep Cut85points
- Margined snake eelDeep Cut85points
- Margined tonguefishDeep Cut85points
- Margintail congerDeep Cut85points
- Maria's giant glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Mariana Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Marine earthwormDeep Cut85points
- Marine OtterDeep Cut85points
- Marine Prickly PearDeep Cut85points
- Marine teardropDeep Cut85points
- Maringma Tepui rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Marinho's Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Marini's anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Marini's grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Marinkelle's sword-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Mario's coryDeep Cut85points
- Marion's spiderfishDeep Cut85points
- Mariposa negraDeep Cut85points
- Marisela's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Maritza SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Marius HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Marked gobyDeep Cut85points
- Markham's Storm-PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Marl PennantDeep Cut85points
- Marlin suckerDeep Cut85points
- Maroma Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Maroni eartheaterDeep Cut85points
- Maroon AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Maroon-bellied ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Maroon-belted Chat-TyrantDeep Cut85points
- Maroon-chested Ground DoveDeep 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.