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
- Mexican lampfishDeep Cut85points
- Mexican moonfishDeep Cut85points
- Mexican needlefishDeep Cut85points
- Mexican sand perchDeep Cut85points
- Mexican SilverspotDeep Cut85points
- Mexican snookDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Two-tailed SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Mexican YellowDeep Cut85points
- Michael Sabin's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Michaelsen's Long-clawed MouseDeep Cut85points
- Michelin flea frogDeep Cut85points
- MicrathenaDeep Cut85points
- MicropantherDeep Cut85points
- Microwhip scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Micythus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Midas TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Middle American indigo snakeDeep Cut85points
- Middling thread herringDeep Cut85points
- MidgeDeep Cut85points
- Midget ground weaverDeep Cut85points
- Midnight catfishDeep Cut85points
- Midnight parrotfishDeep Cut85points
- Midwater scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Mielke's MellanaDeep Cut85points
- Mielke's Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Mielke's SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Miguel Christie's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Miguel Pereira snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Miguel's button frogDeep Cut85points
- Miguel's ground frogDeep Cut85points
- Miguelito CoryDeep Cut85points
- Mikhailin's scabbardfishDeep Cut85points
- Mikolji's OscarDeep Cut85points
- Miles' SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Military ground snakeDeep Cut85points
- Military MacawDeep Cut85points
- Military river frogDeep Cut85points
- Milk ConchDeep Cut85points
- Milk frogDeep Cut85points
- Milk Moon SnailDeep Cut85points
- Milk Sea NettleDeep Cut85points
- Milk snakeDeep Cut85points
- MilkfishDeep Cut85points
- Milkweed assassin bugDeep Cut85points
- Milky sand stargazerDeep Cut85points
- Milky Way woodcatDeep Cut85points
- Millennium coryDeep Cut85points
- Miller's dog-faced batDeep Cut85points
- Miller's long-tongued batDeep Cut85points
- Miller's mastiff batDeep 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.