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
- Orange Mimic-SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Orange nectar batDeep Cut85points
- Orange reticulated polyp starDeep Cut85points
- Orange Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Orange robber frog of TinguichacaDeep Cut85points
- Orange roughyDeep Cut85points
- Orange Satyr-MothDeep Cut85points
- Orange seam plecoDeep Cut85points
- Orange Silver-spotDeep Cut85points
- Orange spotted ballerinaDeep Cut85points
- Orange spotted bristlenoseDeep Cut85points
- Orange TheopeDeep Cut85points
- Orange ThordisaDeep Cut85points
- Orange ToniciaDeep Cut85points
- Orange Tree SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Orange trumpet spongeDeep Cut85points
- Orange whelkDeep Cut85points
- Orange-backed TroupialDeep Cut85points
- Orange-band MarginellaDeep Cut85points
- Orange-banded FlatDeep Cut85points
- Orange-banded FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Orange-banded GemDeep Cut85points
- Orange-banded MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Orange-banded ShoemakerDeep Cut85points
- Orange-banded tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Orange-banded Tripudia MothDeep Cut85points
- Orange-barred PixieDeep Cut85points
- Orange-barred SulphurDeep Cut85points
- Orange-bellied AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Orange-bellied EuphoniaDeep Cut85points
- Orange-bellied leaf toadDeep Cut85points
- Orange-bellied ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Orange-bellied SwampsnakeDeep Cut85points
- Orange-billed Nightingale-ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Orange-billed SparrowDeep Cut85points
- Orange-breasted FalconDeep Cut85points
- Orange-breasted FruiteaterDeep Cut85points
- Orange-breasted ThornbirdDeep Cut85points
- Orange-browed HemispingusDeep Cut85points
- Orange-cheeked ParrotDeep Cut85points
- Orange-chinned ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Orange-costa EuselasiaDeep Cut85points
- Orange-crested FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Orange-crowned EuphoniaDeep Cut85points
- Orange-crowned ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Orange-crowned OrioleDeep Cut85points
- Orange-eared TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Orange-edged FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Orange-edged greenmarkDeep Cut85points
- Orange-eyed FlatbillDeep 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.