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
- Ayacucho AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Ayacucho marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Ayacucho ThistletailDeep Cut85points
- Ayala's AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Ayampe poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Ayanganna rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Ayanganna StefaniaDeep Cut85points
- Ayarzaguena's frogDeep Cut85points
- Ayarzaguena's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Ayerbes' snail-eaterDeep Cut85points
- Aymaran MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Azara's AgoutiDeep Cut85points
- Azara’s granulated toadDeep Cut85points
- Azara's Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Azara's Night MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Azara's Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Azara's SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Azaria HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Azeca bannerDeep Cut85points
- Azeta SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Azin SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Aziza FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Aztec mastiff batDeep Cut85points
- Aztec Spur-throated GrasshopperDeep Cut85points
- Azteca antDeep Cut85points
- Azuay marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Azuay stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Azul poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Azul Rapids frogDeep Cut85points
- Azure DancerDeep Cut85points
- Azure GallinuleDeep Cut85points
- Azure JayDeep Cut85points
- Azure parrotfishDeep Cut85points
- Azure Vase SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Azure-naped JayDeep Cut85points
- Azure-shouldered TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Azure-winged eurybiaDeep Cut85points
- Bacis HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Backspot flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- BackswimmerDeep Cut85points
- Backwaters silversideDeep Cut85points
- Badeta HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Badia Bent-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Baer's Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Baer's MeliponaDeep Cut85points
- Bagrecito frogDeep Cut85points
- BagwormDeep Cut85points
- Bahaman Snapping ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Bahia AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Bahia CaecilianDeep 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.