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
- Orces's long-tongued batDeep Cut85points
- Orchard OrioleDeep Cut85points
- Orchard spiderDeep Cut85points
- Orchid beeDeep Cut85points
- Orchid leather neck whiptailDeep Cut85points
- Orcinus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Orcus Checkered-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Ordway's brotulaDeep Cut85points
- Oreba SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Orejas-Miranda redbelly toadDeep Cut85points
- Orejuela's glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Orellana Spindle SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Orellana's collared frogDeep Cut85points
- OrestiasDeep Cut85points
- Organ Mountains robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Organos ChromodoridDeep Cut85points
- Oriander SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Original FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Origo GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Orinocan Speckled Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Orinoco Brush-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Orinoco crocodileDeep Cut85points
- Orinoco eartheaterDeep Cut85points
- Orinoco Four-eyed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Orinoco GooseDeep Cut85points
- Orinoco lime treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Orinoco matamataDeep Cut85points
- Orinoco PiculetDeep Cut85points
- Orinoco River DolphinDeep Cut85points
- Orinoco sailfin catfishDeep Cut85points
- Orinoco SaltatorDeep Cut85points
- Orinoco serotineDeep Cut85points
- Orinoco SofttailDeep Cut85points
- Orinoco sword-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- OrioleDeep Cut85points
- Oriole amberwingDeep Cut85points
- Oriole BlackbirdDeep Cut85points
- Orion CecropianDeep Cut85points
- Orion ConeDeep Cut85points
- Orius SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Oriximina LizardDeep Cut85points
- Orizaba silkmothDeep Cut85points
- Ornamented flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- Ornate Bella MothDeep Cut85points
- Ornate Blue CrabDeep Cut85points
- Ornate carpenter beeDeep Cut85points
- Ornate ChitonDeep Cut85points
- Ornate Christmas Tree WormDeep Cut85points
- Ornate cloud frogDeep Cut85points
- Ornate Coral SnakeDeep 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.