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
- Masked TityraDeep Cut85points
- Masked TrogonDeep Cut85points
- Masked Water TyrantDeep Cut85points
- Masked YellowthroatDeep Cut85points
- Masquerader hairy blennyDeep Cut85points
- Massive Starlet CoralDeep Cut85points
- Massoia's Lutrine OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Master Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Mastiff batDeep Cut85points
- Mat ZoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Mata da Bananeira snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Mata do Catolé heart-tongued frogDeep Cut85points
- Mata mataDeep Cut85points
- Matador BugDeep Cut85points
- Matapalo broad-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Mathiasson's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Matilde's Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Mato Grosso AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Mato Grosso Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Mato Grosso blind snakeDeep Cut85points
- Mato Grosso Burrowing SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Mato Grosso dog-faced batDeep Cut85points
- Mato Grosso GrasshopperDeep Cut85points
- Mato Grosso Green RacerDeep Cut85points
- Mato Grosso leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Mato Grosso poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Mato Grosso Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Mato Grosso scale-eating characinDeep Cut85points
- Mato Grosso snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Mato Verde harlequin frogDeep Cut85points
- Matses Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Matses big-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Matses reserve tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Matted Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Mattevi's Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Matucana SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Maués MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Maués snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Maul's searsidDeep Cut85points
- Maule Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- MauriDeep Cut85points
- Mauve gobyDeep Cut85points
- Maximilian’s Snake-headed TurtleDeep Cut85points
- Mayan Lichen MantisDeep Cut85points
- MayflyDeep Cut85points
- Mayorga rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Mayr's Lesser Trap-jaw AntDeep Cut85points
- Mazans ScallopwingDeep Cut85points
- Mazar RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Mazaruni treefrogDeep 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.