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
- Mottled leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Mottled LongtailDeep Cut85points
- Mottled mojarraDeep Cut85points
- Mottled opalDeep Cut85points
- Mottled OwlDeep Cut85points
- Mottled PiculetDeep Cut85points
- Mottled PreponaDeep Cut85points
- Mottled PurplewingDeep Cut85points
- Mottled Purse CrabDeep Cut85points
- Mottled scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Mottled Scrub-HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Mottled SeahareDeep Cut85points
- Mottled Shore CrabDeep Cut85points
- Mottled SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Mottled soapfishDeep Cut85points
- Mottled tonguefishDeep Cut85points
- Mottled Tortoise BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Mottled Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Mottled Waterhyacinth WeevilDeep Cut85points
- Mottled-face TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Mount Caparao HocicudoDeep Cut85points
- Mount Duida frogDeep Cut85points
- Mount Pirre DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Mount Turumiquire rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Mountain AvocetbillDeep Cut85points
- Mountain CaciqueDeep Cut85points
- Mountain CaracaraDeep Cut85points
- Mountain catfishDeep Cut85points
- Mountain cavyDeep Cut85points
- Mountain Centipede SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Mountain CoatiDeep Cut85points
- Mountain Crest Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Mountain DeguDeep Cut85points
- Mountain ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Mountain GreenstreakDeep Cut85points
- Mountain marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Mountain mulletDeep Cut85points
- Mountain PacaDeep Cut85points
- Mountain ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Mountain PholidobolusDeep Cut85points
- Mountain SipoDeep Cut85points
- Mountain spiny-chest frogDeep Cut85points
- Mountain stream sardineDeep Cut85points
- Mountain tanagerDeep Cut85points
- Mountain TapirDeep Cut85points
- Mountain toucanDeep Cut85points
- Mountain Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Mountain VelvetbreastDeep Cut85points
- Mountain viscachaDeep Cut85points
- Mountain WrenDeep 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.