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
- Melius SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Mella SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Melleus HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Melma GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Melon-headed WhaleDeep Cut85points
- Melonworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Menapis TigerwingDeep Cut85points
- Mendes' tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Mendoza four-eyed frogDeep Cut85points
- Mendoza pass toadDeep Cut85points
- Mendoza Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Mendozan Chinchilla RatDeep Cut85points
- Menechmus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Menelaus MorphoDeep Cut85points
- Menes SkipperDeep Cut85points
- MenhadenDeep Cut85points
- Menwig frogDeep Cut85points
- Mera rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Mercedes' Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Merchant Dove ShellDeep Cut85points
- Mercurial SkipperDeep Cut85points
- MerganserDeep Cut85points
- Merida Andes treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Mérida brushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Merida Cable Car FrogDeep Cut85points
- Merida Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Merida FlowerpiercerDeep Cut85points
- Merida Montane MouseDeep Cut85points
- Mérida Mountain SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Merida Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Merida Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Merida rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Merida SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Merida Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Merida SunangelDeep Cut85points
- Merida TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Merida treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Merida WrenDeep Cut85points
- Merida’s collared frogDeep Cut85points
- Merida's stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Meridian GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Meridian MellanaDeep Cut85points
- Merino leaflitter frogDeep Cut85points
- Meris TelemiadesDeep Cut85points
- MerlinDeep Cut85points
- Mermaid lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Mermaid's veilDeep Cut85points
- Merops SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Merriam's long-tongued batDeep Cut85points
- Mertens' 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.