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
- Mertens' Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Mertens' rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Mertens' tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Mertens' Tropical Forest SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Mertens' Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Mesensis tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Mesh-web spiderDeep Cut85points
- Meshed costate beaniaDeep Cut85points
- Meshed spine-less beaniaDeep Cut85points
- Mesoamerican River OtterDeep Cut85points
- Mesoamerican round-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Mesoamerican sliderDeep Cut85points
- Mesopotamia beaked toadDeep Cut85points
- Mesopotamian coral snakeDeep Cut85points
- Mesopotamian Fat-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Mesoxantha SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Messana SisterDeep Cut85points
- MessmateDeep Cut85points
- Mestor MylonDeep Cut85points
- Meta Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Metallescens SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Metallic blue lady beetleDeep Cut85points
- Metallic green beeDeep Cut85points
- Metallic lantern fishDeep Cut85points
- Metallic PodelfinDeep Cut85points
- Metallic Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Metallic-green TanagerDeep Cut85points
- MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Metalmark MothDeep Cut85points
- MetaltailDeep Cut85points
- Meton HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Metope EyemarkDeep Cut85points
- Metrodorus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Metropolitan redspotDeep Cut85points
- Mevania Eyed-MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Mexican ArcasDeep Cut85points
- Mexican barracudaDeep Cut85points
- Mexican barred snapperDeep Cut85points
- Mexican blennyDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Blind SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Mexican CockleDeep Cut85points
- Mexican DartwhiteDeep Cut85points
- Mexican flounderDeep Cut85points
- Mexican FritillaryDeep Cut85points
- Mexican funnel-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Mexican goatfishDeep Cut85points
- Mexican gobyDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Harvest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Mexican hogfishDeep Cut85points
- Mexican hornsharkDeep 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.