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
- Northern Mountain ViscachaDeep Cut85points
- Northern MuriquiDeep Cut85points
- Northern Naked-tailed ArmadilloDeep Cut85points
- Northern orange PartamonaDeep Cut85points
- Northern Oval FrogDeep Cut85points
- Northern Painted Smooth-throated LizardDeep Cut85points
- Northern Páramo HocicudoDeep Cut85points
- Northern Peru RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Northern PintailDeep Cut85points
- Northern Plain-xenopsDeep Cut85points
- Northern PuduDeep Cut85points
- Northern Pygmy MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Northern red snapperDeep Cut85points
- Northern Royal AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
- Northern SchiffornisDeep Cut85points
- Northern ScreamerDeep Cut85points
- Northern Scrub-flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Northern searobinDeep Cut85points
- Northern ShovelerDeep Cut85points
- Northern Slaty-antshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Northern Snail-eaterDeep Cut85points
- Northern Spectacled LizardDeep Cut85points
- Northern stripe-headed round-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Northern Surprising-WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Northern TamanduaDeep Cut85points
- Northern TeiidDeep Cut85points
- Northern Three-striped OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Northern TriorlaDeep Cut85points
- Northern Tropical BuckeyeDeep Cut85points
- Northern WaterthrushDeep Cut85points
- Northern White-fringed AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Northern Woodland RacerDeep Cut85points
- Northwestern Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Northwestern Climbing SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Northwestern ConyratDeep Cut85points
- Northwestern Red BrocketDeep Cut85points
- Northwestern Woolly Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Nose AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Nose-striped coryDeep Cut85points
- Notal lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Notched CrescentDeep Cut85points
- Notchspine brotulaDeep Cut85points
- Notchtongue gobyDeep Cut85points
- NothobachiaDeep Cut85points
- NothuraDeep Cut85points
- NotothenDeep Cut85points
- Nouns' glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Noury's ArgonautDeep Cut85points
- Nova Friburgo treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Nova Teutonia white-lipped frogDeep 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.