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
- Novaes's Bald UacariDeep Cut85points
- Nucleus ScallopDeep Cut85points
- Nude topshellDeep Cut85points
- Numata longwingDeep Cut85points
- Numbala Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Number EightyDeep Cut85points
- NunbirdDeep Cut85points
- Nuñez' Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- NunletDeep Cut85points
- Nurse frog of the Serranía de PerijáDeep Cut85points
- Nurse sharkDeep Cut85points
- Nursery web spiderDeep Cut85points
- Nursica skipperDeep Cut85points
- Nut ArkDeep Cut85points
- Nut ConeDeep Cut85points
- Nutibara Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Nutmeg snailDeep Cut85points
- Nutting's Snapping ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Nybelin's PorogadusDeep Cut85points
- Nymph duskhawkerDeep Cut85points
- Nymph tree frogDeep Cut85points
- O'Connell's Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- O'Neill's AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- O'Neill's Tree SnakeDeep Cut85points
- O'Shaughnessy's AnoleDeep Cut85points
- O'Shaughnessy's GeckoDeep Cut85points
- O'Shaughnessy's Lightbulb LizardDeep Cut85points
- OarfishDeep Cut85points
- Oasis HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Obama FlatwormDeep Cut85points
- Oberthur's SisterDeep Cut85points
- Obese dragonfishDeep Cut85points
- Obese FunnelDeep Cut85points
- Obese HenriciaDeep Cut85points
- Oblique butterflyfishDeep Cut85points
- Oblique streaktailDeep Cut85points
- Oblique-banded flea beetleDeep Cut85points
- Oblique-banded snapperDeep Cut85points
- Oblong Sea UrchinDeep Cut85points
- Obrinus OlivewingDeep Cut85points
- Obscure forceptailDeep Cut85points
- Obscure SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Obscure SootywingDeep Cut85points
- Obscure SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Obscure swamp eelDeep Cut85points
- Oca SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Occidental blennyDeep Cut85points
- Occult SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Ocean BassDeep Cut85points
- Ocean sunfishDeep 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.