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
- Noronha wrasseDeep Cut85points
- North Andean Soft-haired MouseDeep Cut85points
- North Andean treefrogDeep Cut85points
- North coastal granular toadDeep Cut85points
- North shore marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- North-Pacific argentineDeep Cut85points
- Northeastern Brazilian dogfishDeep Cut85points
- Northeastern Brazilian leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Northeastern Oval FrogDeep Cut85points
- Northeastern pepper frogDeep Cut85points
- Northeastern Woolly Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Northern AkodontDeep Cut85points
- Northern Amazon Red SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Northern Andean Red BrocketDeep Cut85points
- Northern Andean Water MouseDeep Cut85points
- Northern Arboreal MouseDeep Cut85points
- Northern Barred-woodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Northern Black-eared OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Northern blind snakeDeep Cut85points
- Northern Brown BrocketDeep Cut85points
- Northern caiman lizardDeep Cut85points
- Northern Calico SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Northern Cat-eyed SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Northern Chestnut-breasted WrenDeep Cut85points
- Northern ChorineaDeep Cut85points
- Northern ClitoDeep Cut85points
- Northern ColocoloDeep Cut85points
- Northern Cordilleras Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Northern CrackerletDeep Cut85points
- Northern dwarf bonneted batDeep Cut85points
- Northern Emerald ToucanetDeep Cut85points
- Northern Eyed-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Northern Eyelash BoaDeep Cut85points
- Northern ghost batDeep Cut85points
- Northern Giant Flag MothDeep Cut85points
- Northern Giant-HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Northern Giant-PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Northern Gracile OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Northern Gray FoxDeep Cut85points
- Northern green anacondaDeep Cut85points
- Northern Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Northern hairy-legged myotisDeep Cut85points
- Northern HarrierDeep Cut85points
- Northern HuemulDeep Cut85points
- Northern kingfishDeep Cut85points
- Northern little yellow-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Northern longnose coryDeep Cut85points
- Northern Maned Three-toed SlothDeep Cut85points
- Northern mole cricketDeep Cut85points
- Northern Mountain CavyDeep 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.