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
- Olivaceous WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Olive coryDeep Cut85points
- Olive FinchDeep Cut85points
- Olive FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Olive Forest RacerDeep Cut85points
- Olive grouperDeep Cut85points
- Olive KeelbackDeep Cut85points
- Olive ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Olive MetronDeep Cut85points
- Olive OropendolaDeep Cut85points
- Olive ridley sea turtleDeep Cut85points
- Olive Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Olive royal plecoDeep Cut85points
- Olive shellDeep Cut85points
- Olive Soft-haired MouseDeep Cut85points
- Olive SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Olive spiny-chest frogDeep Cut85points
- Olive TeguDeep Cut85points
- Olive ZoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Olive-backed flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Olive-backed Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- Olive-backed Quail-DoveDeep Cut85points
- Olive-backed TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Olive-backed WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Olive-chested FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Olive-crowned CrescentchestDeep Cut85points
- Olive-crowned YellowthroatDeep Cut85points
- Olive-faced FlatbillDeep Cut85points
- Olive-green TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Olive-green TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Olive-grey SaltatorDeep Cut85points
- Olive-sided FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Olive-spotted HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Olive-striped FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- OlivewingDeep Cut85points
- Olrog's Chaco MouseDeep Cut85points
- Olrog's CinclodesDeep Cut85points
- Olrog's GullDeep Cut85points
- Omar's Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Ommatochila MothDeep Cut85points
- Omnivorous Platynota MothDeep Cut85points
- OmosudidDeep Cut85points
- Omura's WhaleDeep Cut85points
- OncillaDeep Cut85points
- Oncol spiny-chest frogDeep Cut85points
- Oncol's ground frogDeep Cut85points
- One spot toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- One-banded Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- One-colored BecardDeep Cut85points
- One-groove PedipesDeep 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.