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-eyed ThornbirdDeep Cut85points
- Orange-fronted BarbetDeep Cut85points
- Orange-fronted PlushcrownDeep Cut85points
- Orange-fronted Yellow FinchDeep Cut85points
- Orange-groined Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Orange-headed cockroachDeep Cut85points
- Orange-headed MetronDeep Cut85points
- Orange-headed StegeaDeep Cut85points
- Orange-headed TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Orange-legged leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Orange-legged terrestrial nest-building frogDeep Cut85points
- Orange-patched CrescentDeep Cut85points
- Orange-rimmed Owl-ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Orange-shouldered Sherbet MothDeep Cut85points
- Orange-sided OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Orange-spot DukeDeep Cut85points
- Orange-spotted Flower MothDeep Cut85points
- Orange-spotted leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Orange-spotted NanucaDeep Cut85points
- Orange-spotted PreponaDeep Cut85points
- Orange-spotted sand perchDeep Cut85points
- Orange-spotted SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Orange-stitched MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Orange-striped MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Orange-throated batDeep Cut85points
- Orange-throated SunangelDeep Cut85points
- Orange-throated TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Orange-tipped austral small carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Orange-tipped bumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Orange-tipped Sea SquirtDeep Cut85points
- Orange-Veined Encrusting SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Orange-washed sisterDeep Cut85points
- Orange-winged AmazonDeep Cut85points
- Orangeback bassDeep Cut85points
- Orangeback SquidDeep Cut85points
- Orangeclaw Hermit CrabDeep Cut85points
- Orangefin tetraDeep Cut85points
- Orangegill TambjaDeep Cut85points
- Orangeside triggerfishDeep Cut85points
- Orangesided gobyDeep Cut85points
- Orangespotted blennyDeep Cut85points
- Orangespotted filefishDeep Cut85points
- Orangespotted gobyDeep Cut85points
- Orangetip Angled-SulphurDeep Cut85points
- Orb weaverDeep Cut85points
- Orbed Narrow-wing MothDeep Cut85points
- Orca Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Orces' Andes AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Orces's Andean Water MouseDeep Cut85points
- Orces’s harlequin frogDeep 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.