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
- Moon dollarDeep Cut85points
- Moon Eyetail MothDeep Cut85points
- Moon jellyDeep Cut85points
- Moon plecoDeep Cut85points
- Moon SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Moon snailDeep Cut85points
- MoonfishDeep Cut85points
- Moonseed FruitpiercerDeep Cut85points
- Moorish idolDeep Cut85points
- Mopsus FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Mora SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Moratelli's myotisDeep Cut85points
- Morgan's Gerbil MouseDeep Cut85points
- Morlaco RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Mormyrus tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Morning Glory Tufted-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Moroccan moon snailDeep Cut85points
- Morona Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Morona-Santiago stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Morona-Santiago treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Morro Anhangava flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Morro da Tromba flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Morro do Baú flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Morro do Cachorro flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Morro do Corcovado flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Morro dos Padres flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Morro Prumirim flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Morsa SalianaDeep Cut85points
- Morse KnifefishDeep Cut85points
- Moruga GrasshopperDeep Cut85points
- Morva SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Mosaic corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Mosaic StingrayDeep Cut85points
- Moscopan CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Mosers' BrangasDeep Cut85points
- Moss MillipedeDeep Cut85points
- Moss Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Moss-backed SparrowDeep Cut85points
- Moss-backed TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Mossy ArkDeep Cut85points
- Mote sculpinDeep Cut85points
- Moth blennyDeep Cut85points
- Moth-butterflyDeep Cut85points
- MotmotDeep Cut85points
- Mottle-backed ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Mottle-cheeked TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Mottled ClitoDeep Cut85points
- Mottled false morayDeep Cut85points
- Mottled flounderDeep Cut85points
- Mottled jawfishDeep 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.