Krillion Recorded answers
19,397 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work taxon by taxon rather than free-associating: sketch a quick grid of birds, amphibians, reptiles, freshwater and marine fishes, insects, arachnids and small mammals, then fill each cell with a name you can defend. Start with the obvious and keep descending into field-guide territory, because the scoring rewards precision and obscurity rather than fame. For every candidate, ask whether its natural range really sits inside the target continent and whether it also occurs elsewhere; a species shared with another region is usually rejected. Strike out anything domesticated, captive-bred or introduced. Then pick the least familiar name on your list that you can still spell correctly and justify in one line.
Get a hint
Cast a wide taxonomic net before narrowing: birds, amphibians, reptiles, freshwater and marine fishes, butterflies and moths, beetles, spiders, and small mammals all have deep lineages across the continent's varied habitats.
A little more
Then think like a field-guide index: many valid names pair a genus with a descriptive epithet, or borrow the name of a river, ridge or valley where the taxon was first collected, so odd-looking combinations are usually real rather than invented.
One step further
Finally, settle on one narrow-range species you can vouch for, something recorded from a single cloud forest, cave, deep-sea trench or high-altitude stream, and confirm its native range touches no other continent before committing.
Reveal answers 19,397
- Adams MusselDeep Cut85points
- Adams's Miniature CerithDeep Cut85points
- Adelina MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Adept Fruit-piercing MothDeep Cut85points
- Adjutant WainscotDeep Cut85points
- Admirable-Redbelly-toadDeep Cut85points
- Adolf's catfishDeep Cut85points
- Adonis FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Adorned Austral-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Adorned Graceful Brown SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Adriana's yellow-shouldered batDeep Cut85points
- Adrienne's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Advena Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Aecas Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Aega MorphoDeep Cut85points
- Aegita SilverpatchDeep Cut85points
- Aeglid crabDeep Cut85points
- Aeolosoma WormDeep Cut85points
- Aerata SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Aesculapian False Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Aetolus StripestreakDeep Cut85points
- African pompanoDeep Cut85points
- Afrox's robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Agami HeronDeep Cut85points
- Agamyxis albomaculatusDeep Cut85points
- Agar river prawnDeep Cut85points
- Agaricon SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Agassiz' smooth-headDeep Cut85points
- Agassiz's AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Agassiz's ChromodoridDeep Cut85points
- Agassiz's corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Agassiz's dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Agassiz's parrotfishDeep Cut85points
- Agate ConeDeep Cut85points
- Agathina EmperorDeep Cut85points
- Agathocles SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Agave MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Agave YellowDeep Cut85points
- Agile OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Agile snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Agile Tit-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Agnata SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Agnosia GlasswingDeep Cut85points
- Agricola's OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Agua Bonita Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Agua Rica leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Agua Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Aguapanela Dwarf TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Agueda’s Rocky LizardDeep Cut85points
- Aguja skateDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here tracks obscurity, not correctness alone, so the pool splits into three tiers. The lone 100-point answer, Olinguito, sits apart from everything else: one unusual mammal name that no other player in the recorded set produced, and the only pick to break the 85 ceiling. The 85-point band, with 19,071 answers, is where specialist vocabulary pays: 88 butterfly, Abakapa rain frog and Acre treefrog all sit there, each a real, verifiable species that most players would never retrieve under time pressure. The 279 answers at 60 points are the safe, familiar choices, recognisable animals that many people reach for first, so the crowd splits the credit. In practice the difference between 60 and 85 is a willingness to leave the well-trodden list and name something a field guide would index; the difference between 85 and 100 is luck as much as knowledge, since a single unusual recall has to be the only one of its kind.