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
- Ornate coryDeep Cut85points
- Ornate Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Ornate FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Ornate forest toadDeep Cut85points
- Ornate Hawk-EagleDeep Cut85points
- Ornate hunchback barnacleDeep Cut85points
- Ornate Hydriris MothDeep Cut85points
- Ornate PimDeep Cut85points
- Ornate RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Ornate sap-sucking slugDeep Cut85points
- Ornate scallopDeep Cut85points
- Ornate Snake EelDeep Cut85points
- Ornate Soft-haired MouseDeep Cut85points
- Ornate StipplethroatDeep Cut85points
- Ornate tetraDeep Cut85points
- Ornate TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Ornate TitiDeep Cut85points
- Ornate Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Ornate tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Ornate treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Ornate Tropical Wandering SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Oroanna MithrasDeep Cut85points
- Orobia MithrasDeep Cut85points
- Orobiana MithrasDeep Cut85points
- Orocana MithrasDeep Cut85points
- Orocue coryDeep Cut85points
- OropendolaDeep Cut85points
- Orphan SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Orsilochus DaggerwingDeep Cut85points
- Orsines SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Orsis bluewingDeep Cut85points
- Ortalus HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Ortega's HypopygusDeep Cut85points
- Orthos SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Ortiz's RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Ortiz's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Osa Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Osca SkipperDeep Cut85points
- OscarDeep Cut85points
- Osgood's Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Osgood's Short-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Osgood's Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Osiriform Digger-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Ostenfeld's lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- OstracodDeep Cut85points
- Osvaldo Reig's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Oswaldo Báez' Snail-EaterDeep Cut85points
- Otavalo's Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Otavio tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Othna SkipperDeep 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.