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
- Mutina MidistreakDeep Cut85points
- Mutton hamletDeep Cut85points
- Mutton snapperDeep Cut85points
- Muzo SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Muzo Stingless BeeDeep Cut85points
- Mycon HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Myers' grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Myers' poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Myers' Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Myers' Surinam ToadDeep Cut85points
- Myers' thin-toed frogDeep Cut85points
- MyiobiusDeep Cut85points
- Myna Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Myris SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Myrtea HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Myrtusa HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Mys SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Mystery coryDeep Cut85points
- Mystery gobyDeep Cut85points
- Mystical EuselasiaDeep Cut85points
- Nacunda NighthawkDeep Cut85points
- Nahuelbuta ground frogDeep Cut85points
- Nail coryDeep Cut85points
- Nail MusselDeep Cut85points
- Naked blennyDeep Cut85points
- Naked characinDeep Cut85points
- Naked Green Sea UrchinDeep Cut85points
- Naked soleDeep Cut85points
- Naked-backed batDeep Cut85points
- Naked-belly searobinDeep Cut85points
- Naked-soled ConyratDeep Cut85points
- Naked-tailed armadilloDeep Cut85points
- Naked-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Namibian CushionstarDeep Cut85points
- Namorado sandperchDeep Cut85points
- Nanday ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Nanea SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Nangaritza Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Nankints Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Napo corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Napo giant glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Napo lime treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Napo plump toadDeep Cut85points
- Napo SabrewingDeep Cut85points
- Napo SakiDeep Cut85points
- Napo slender-legged treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Napo Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Narbal HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Narcissus AgriasDeep 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.