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
- Narcissus Sea StarDeep Cut85points
- Nariño poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Narino Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Nariño Spindle SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Nariño TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Narino toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Narrow Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Narrow Tree CrabDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-banded DartwhiteDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-banded Owl-ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-banded ShoemakerDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-barred butterflyfishDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-billed AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-billed WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-fingered Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-flanged RedspotDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-footed Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-fronted Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-headed pufferDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-headed tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-mouthed frogDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-nasal Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-striped anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-tailed EmeraldDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-tipped WedgetailDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-winged Blue-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-winged MylonDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-winged skimmerDeep Cut85points
- Narrowfin smooth-houndDeep Cut85points
- Narrowhead flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- Narrowmouthed catsharkDeep Cut85points
- Narrownecked oceanic eelDeep Cut85points
- Narrownose smooth-houndDeep Cut85points
- Narrowsnout grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Narva CheckerspotDeep Cut85points
- Nassa mud snailDeep Cut85points
- Nassau grouperDeep Cut85points
- Nasute termiteDeep Cut85points
- Natal Brown BirdeaterDeep Cut85points
- Natal Pigmy GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Natterer's anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Natterer's Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Natterer's Slaty-antshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Natterer's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Naturetrek Leaf FrogDeep Cut85points
- Nauplius crescentDeep Cut85points
- Nauta Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Nauta salamanderDeep Cut85points
- Nautes MithrasDeep Cut85points
- Naxia SisterDeep 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.