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
- Mountainous Star CoralDeep Cut85points
- MournerDeep Cut85points
- Mournful DuskywingDeep Cut85points
- Mournful Long-tailed WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Mournful SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Mourning beeDeep Cut85points
- Mourning Sierra FinchDeep Cut85points
- Mourning tetraDeep Cut85points
- Mourning WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Mouse CatfishDeep Cut85points
- Mouse ConeDeep Cut85points
- Mouse CowrieDeep Cut85points
- Mouse opossumDeep Cut85points
- Mouse-colored AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Mouse-colored TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Mouse-colored ThistletailDeep Cut85points
- Mouse-colored TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Mouse-eared toadDeep Cut85points
- Mouse-gray FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Mousetail knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Moustache jawfishDeep Cut85points
- Moustached AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Moustached AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Moustached BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Moustached FlowerpiercerDeep Cut85points
- Moustached frogDeep Cut85points
- Moustached PuffbirdDeep Cut85points
- Moustached TurcaDeep Cut85points
- Moustached WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Moustached WrenDeep Cut85points
- Mousy Plume MothDeep Cut85points
- Mouthless crabDeep Cut85points
- Moyobamba snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Mt. Duida SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Muchagua's lizardDeep Cut85points
- Muchimuk rain frogDeep Cut85points
- MuckrakerDeep Cut85points
- Mucubají skunk frogDeep Cut85points
- Mucubají stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Mucuchíes’ frogDeep Cut85points
- Mucugê Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Mucurici hatchet-faced tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Mud crabDeep Cut85points
- Mud cricketDeep Cut85points
- Mud dauberDeep Cut85points
- Mud turtleDeep Cut85points
- Muddy arrowtooth eelDeep Cut85points
- Mudflat Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Muela HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Mueller's Sea PansyDeep 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.