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
- Nightingale-wrenDeep Cut85points
- NightjarDeep Cut85points
- Nijssen's coryDeep Cut85points
- Nijssen's HypopygusDeep Cut85points
- Nikko SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Nimble Spray CrabDeep Cut85points
- Nimble-footed Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Nine ray toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Nine-armed Sea StarDeep Cut85points
- Nine-banded armadilloDeep Cut85points
- Nineline gobyDeep Cut85points
- Nisaee GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Nitetis HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Nitra SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Noble Jumping SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Noble lampfishDeep Cut85points
- Noble Leafwing ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Noble MyscelusDeep Cut85points
- Noble Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Noble SnipeDeep Cut85points
- Noble's BachiaDeep Cut85points
- Noble's Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Noble's Pygmy FrogDeep Cut85points
- Noctua SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Nocturnal CurassowDeep Cut85points
- Nocturnal harlequin toadDeep Cut85points
- Nocturnal pearlfishDeep Cut85points
- NoddyDeep Cut85points
- Nodose Clinging CrabDeep Cut85points
- Nodose Rubble CrabDeep Cut85points
- Nodulose Lobster ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Nodulose MiterDeep Cut85points
- Nolcken's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Nono Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Nonpassionate HeliconianDeep Cut85points
- Norax HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Nordenskjold's bigscaleDeep Cut85points
- Norica DaggerwingDeep Cut85points
- Norica PurplewingDeep Cut85points
- Norma Ewing Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Norman's KeelbackDeep Cut85points
- Norman's smooth-headDeep Cut85points
- Norman's swallowerDeep Cut85points
- Normandia CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Noronha cleaner gobyDeep Cut85points
- Noronha ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Noronha frillfin gobyDeep Cut85points
- Noronha scaly blennyDeep Cut85points
- Noronha skinkDeep Cut85points
- Noronha VireoDeep 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.