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
- Miranda Green RacerDeep Cut85points
- Miranda's button frogDeep Cut85points
- Miranda's Disc FrogDeep Cut85points
- Miranda's white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Miriam's frogDeep Cut85points
- Mirina MollyDeep Cut85points
- Miroslaw's Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Mirror doryDeep Cut85points
- Mirror lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Mirror RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Mirror turtle antDeep Cut85points
- MirrorbellyDeep Cut85points
- Mirrorwing flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- Miser SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Mishana TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Misiones BlackheadDeep Cut85points
- Misiones forest edge grasshopperDeep Cut85points
- Misius SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Misma HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Misnamed SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Mississippi KiteDeep Cut85points
- Mistletoe TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Mistratoan yellow-shouldered batDeep Cut85points
- Misty grouperDeep Cut85points
- Mitchell's Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Mithrax DuskywingDeep Cut85points
- Mitre snailDeep Cut85points
- Mitred ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Mittermeier's rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Mittermeier's stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Mitzi's HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Mixed AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Mixed orchid beeDeep Cut85points
- Miyata's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Mobile GroundlingDeep Cut85points
- Mocha Island ground frogDeep Cut85points
- Moche big-eared brown batDeep Cut85points
- Mock blennyDeep Cut85points
- Mocosa ruffDeep Cut85points
- Mocquard's Swamp SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Modest frogletDeep Cut85points
- Modest Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Modest Whorltail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Moehring's Smooth Horned FrogDeep Cut85points
- Moela's lanceheadDeep Cut85points
- MojarraDeep Cut85points
- Mola Rock CrabDeep Cut85points
- Mole beetleDeep Cut85points
- Mole crabDeep Cut85points
- Mole cricketDeep 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.