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
- Bahia ColobosauraDeep Cut85points
- Bahia coryDeep Cut85points
- Bahia dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Bahia Forest FrogDeep Cut85points
- Bahia heart-tongued frogDeep Cut85points
- Bahia Lightbulb AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Bahia lime treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Bahia Purple Red TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Bahia Scarlet BirdeaterDeep Cut85points
- Bahia SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Bahia snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Bahia SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Bahia spinythumb frogDeep Cut85points
- Bahia spratDeep Cut85points
- Bahia TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Bahia TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Bahia Wagtail-TyrantDeep Cut85points
- Bahia Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Bahia Yellow FrogDeep Cut85points
- Bahia's broad-snout casque-headed tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Bahian aphilodonDeep Cut85points
- Bahian Hairy Dwarf PorcupineDeep Cut85points
- Bahian NighthawkDeep Cut85points
- Bahian Sand Dune LizardDeep Cut85points
- Bailey's blind snakeDeep Cut85points
- Bailey's Brazillian tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Baird's FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Baird's SandpiperDeep Cut85points
- Baja California CerithDeep Cut85points
- Baja California Christmas Tree WormDeep Cut85points
- Baja California keeltail needlefishDeep Cut85points
- Baker's long-tongued batDeep Cut85points
- Baker's myotisDeep Cut85points
- Baker's tent-making batDeep Cut85points
- Baker's yellow-shouldered batDeep Cut85points
- Balao halfbeakDeep Cut85points
- Balbo sabretoothDeep Cut85points
- Bald ParrotDeep Cut85points
- Bald-legged spiderDeep Cut85points
- Baldias harlequin toadDeep Cut85points
- Baleen whaleDeep Cut85points
- Balloon wormDeep Cut85points
- Ballyhoo halfbeakDeep Cut85points
- Baltic IsopodDeep Cut85points
- Baltimore OrioleDeep Cut85points
- Balzapata snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Balzapata tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Bamboo AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Bamboo coralDeep Cut85points
- Bamboo Rain-PeeperDeep 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.