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
- One-pupil SatyrDeep Cut85points
- One-spotted flea beetleDeep Cut85points
- One-spotted PreponaDeep Cut85points
- One-tooth SimniaDeep Cut85points
- Onefin skateDeep Cut85points
- Oneka FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Oneline pencilfishDeep Cut85points
- Onesided livebearerDeep Cut85points
- Onestriped livebearerDeep Cut85points
- Onore's harlequin frogDeep Cut85points
- Onore's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Onoribo HornydickDeep Cut85points
- Onyx SlippersnailDeep Cut85points
- Oophagous slender-legged treefrogDeep Cut85points
- OpahDeep Cut85points
- Opal pearlfishDeep Cut85points
- Opal spot plecoDeep Cut85points
- Opal-crowned ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Opal-crowned TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Opal-rumped TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Ophia HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Opigena SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Opisena HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Opossum pipefishDeep Cut85points
- Opus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Orange AgoutiDeep Cut85points
- Orange ascidianDeep Cut85points
- Orange ball corallimorphDeep Cut85points
- Orange BannerDeep Cut85points
- Orange barnacle crust spongeDeep Cut85points
- Orange BeggarDeep Cut85points
- Orange bellowfishDeep Cut85points
- Orange Black PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Orange button sea slugDeep Cut85points
- Orange CrackerDeep Cut85points
- Orange Cup CoralDeep Cut85points
- Orange DaggerwingDeep Cut85points
- Orange decameric anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Orange deep-water anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Orange dwarf toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Orange eelDeep Cut85points
- Orange Epipagis MothDeep Cut85points
- Orange filefishDeep Cut85points
- Orange Fin BristlenoseDeep Cut85points
- Orange Fire WormDeep Cut85points
- Orange Hoof ShellDeep Cut85points
- Orange Icing SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Orange Kite-SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Orange knobby starDeep Cut85points
- Orange MapwingDeep 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.