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
- Ocean surgeonfishDeep Cut85points
- Ocean triggerfishDeep Cut85points
- Ocean whitefishDeep Cut85points
- Oceanic lightfishDeep Cut85points
- Oceanic pufferDeep Cut85points
- Oceanic two-wing flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- Oceanic whitetip sharkDeep Cut85points
- Oceia HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Ocellate duckbillDeep Cut85points
- Ocellate river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Ocellate Swimming CrabDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated AnadiaDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated Box CrabDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated CrakeDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated electric rayDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated frogfishDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated morayDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated Pampas SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated PiculetDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated pipefishDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated PoorwillDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated TeguDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated toadDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated tonguefishDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Ocellated WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Ochoa Whorltail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Ochoa-Graterol's Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Ochra MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Ochracea MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Ochraceous AttilaDeep Cut85points
- Ochraceous PiculetDeep Cut85points
- Ochraceous WrenDeep Cut85points
- Ochraceous-breasted FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Ochre GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Ochre ShoulderDeep Cut85points
- Ochre-backed WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Ochre-bellied DoveDeep Cut85points
- Ochre-bellied FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Ochre-breasted AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Ochre-breasted BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Ochre-breasted Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- Ochre-breasted PipitDeep Cut85points
- Ochre-breasted TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Ochre-browed ThistletailDeep Cut85points
- Ochre-cheeked SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Ochre-collared PiculetDeep 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.