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
- Nervous SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Nesaea MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Netted Barrel SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Netted OliveDeep Cut85points
- Netted prochilodDeep Cut85points
- Network soleDeep Cut85points
- Neuwied's False BoaDeep Cut85points
- Neuwied's False Fer-de-lanceDeep Cut85points
- Neuwied's lanceheadDeep Cut85points
- Neuwied's Tree SnakeDeep Cut85points
- New beautyDeep Cut85points
- New Granada CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- New Granada cross-banded treefrogDeep Cut85points
- New Granada sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- New Grenada drumDeep Cut85points
- New River South American Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- New River treefrogDeep Cut85points
- New World banded thynnid waspDeep Cut85points
- New World Checkered-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- New Zealand ruffeDeep Cut85points
- New Zealand seabird tickDeep Cut85points
- Nibaldo's wood frogDeep Cut85points
- Nicaragua giant glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Nicaragua sea hareDeep Cut85points
- Nicaraguan GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Nicefor's TapetiDeep Cut85points
- Niceforo Maria's Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Nicéforo María's Shadow SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Niceforo's Andes AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Niceforo's big-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Niceforo's marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Niceforo's poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Niceforo's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Niceforo's stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Niceforo's WrenDeep Cut85points
- Nichol's lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Nicolay's ArcasDeep Cut85points
- Nicolay's MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Nicomedes MellanaDeep Cut85points
- Nida SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Niepelt’s eyed silkmothDeep Cut85points
- Nieto's RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Night Dove SnailDeep Cut85points
- Night heronDeep Cut85points
- Night monkeyDeep Cut85points
- Night sergeantDeep Cut85points
- Night sharkDeep Cut85points
- Night Sky PlecoDeep Cut85points
- NighthawkDeep Cut85points
- Nightingale-thrushDeep 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.