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
- Molina's Hog-nosed SkunkDeep Cut85points
- Molinapampa rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Molinari's rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Molinopampa PenelfinDeep Cut85points
- Molleturo Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Mollina SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Mollis SatyrDeep Cut85points
- MollyDeep Cut85points
- Molly millerDeep Cut85points
- Molochina Underleaf ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Molpe MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Mondolfi's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Monito del monteDeep Cut85points
- MonjitaDeep Cut85points
- Monk ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Monk SakiDeep Cut85points
- Monkey frogDeep Cut85points
- Monkey grasshopperDeep Cut85points
- Monkey Slug MothDeep Cut85points
- Monogram IsopodDeep Cut85points
- Mont Itoupé rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Montane Atlantic Forest RatDeep Cut85points
- Montane Bamboo RatDeep Cut85points
- Montane dragonletDeep Cut85points
- Montane Fish-eating RatDeep Cut85points
- Montane Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- Montane Forest Screech-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Montane Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Montane Guinea PigDeep Cut85points
- Montane myotisDeep Cut85points
- Montane Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Montane Red-rumped Tree MouseDeep Cut85points
- Montane rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Montane WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Montanucci’s CuilanesDeep Cut85points
- Montanucci's PholidobolusDeep Cut85points
- Montanus tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Monte Duida treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Monte Gerbil MouseDeep Cut85points
- Monte Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Monte Hermoso Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Monte Roraima rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Monte Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Monte Yellow FinchDeep Cut85points
- Montevideo redbelly toadDeep Cut85points
- Montevideo treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Montra SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Moody SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Moojen's Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Moojen's Spiny-ratDeep 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.