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
- Maroon-faced ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Maroon-tailed ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Marrero's tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Mars MothDeep Cut85points
- Mars SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Marsh AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Marsh DeerDeep Cut85points
- Marsh knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Marsh ratDeep Cut85points
- Marsh SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Marsh TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Marshall’s Ghost-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- MarshbirdDeep Cut85points
- Marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Marsyas HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Martena FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Martha's GroundsnakeDeep Cut85points
- Martia Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Martian antDeep Cut85points
- MartinDeep Cut85points
- Martinez's tropical bullfrogDeep Cut85points
- Martini's hagfishDeep Cut85points
- Martins' treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Martins's Bare-faced TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Marty's toadDeep Cut85points
- Maruim white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Marumbi treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Marvelous SpatuletailDeep Cut85points
- Maryanne's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Maryellen's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Masafuera RayaditoDeep Cut85points
- Masatierra PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Mashpi glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Mashpi torrenteerDeep Cut85points
- Masked AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Masked BoobyDeep Cut85points
- Masked CardinalDeep Cut85points
- Masked Crimson TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Masked DuckDeep Cut85points
- Masked flowerpiercerDeep Cut85points
- Masked FruiteaterDeep Cut85points
- Masked GnatcatcherDeep Cut85points
- Masked gobyDeep Cut85points
- Masked morayDeep Cut85points
- Masked Mountain TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Masked SaltatorDeep Cut85points
- Masked stargazerDeep Cut85points
- Masked Swimming CrabDeep Cut85points
- Masked TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Masked TitiDeep 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.