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
- Bamboo ratDeep Cut85points
- Bamboo tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Bamboo wormDeep Cut85points
- Bana SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Banana CockroachDeep Cut85points
- Banana mothDeep Cut85points
- Banana StowawayDeep Cut85points
- Banana tree dwelling frogDeep Cut85points
- Bananal AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- BananaquitDeep Cut85points
- Bananeiras heart-tongued frogDeep Cut85points
- Band cusk-eelDeep Cut85points
- Band-backed WrenDeep Cut85points
- Band-bellied OwlDeep Cut85points
- Band-celled SisterDeep Cut85points
- Band-rumped Storm-PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Band-rumped SwiftDeep Cut85points
- Band-spotted SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Band-tailed AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Band-tailed AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Band-tailed AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Band-tailed BarbthroatDeep Cut85points
- Band-tailed CaciqueDeep Cut85points
- Band-tailed EarthcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Band-tailed FruiteaterDeep Cut85points
- Band-tailed GuanDeep Cut85points
- Band-tailed ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Band-tailed NighthawkDeep Cut85points
- Band-tailed PigeonDeep Cut85points
- Band-tailed SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Band-tailed Sierra FinchDeep Cut85points
- Band-winged DragonletDeep Cut85points
- Band-winged NightjarDeep Cut85points
- Bandaged SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Banded acaraDeep Cut85points
- Banded AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Banded AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Banded ArgiopeDeep Cut85points
- Banded astyanaxDeep Cut85points
- Banded banjoDeep Cut85points
- Banded bassletDeep Cut85points
- Banded blennyDeep Cut85points
- Banded butterflyfishDeep Cut85points
- Banded Cat-eyed SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Banded Centipede SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Banded cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Banded cleaner gobyDeep Cut85points
- Banded clinging crabDeep Cut85points
- Banded ConeDeep Cut85points
- Banded Coral ShrimpDeep 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.