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
- Banded corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Banded CotingaDeep Cut85points
- Banded croakerDeep Cut85points
- Banded Cucumber BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Banded cusk eelDeep Cut85points
- Banded CycadianDeep Cut85points
- Banded driftfishDeep Cut85points
- Banded flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- Banded Galapagos SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Banded GalliwaspDeep Cut85points
- Banded Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Banded Ground-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Banded horned treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Banded jawfishDeep Cut85points
- Banded knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Banded LadyDeep Cut85points
- Banded leporinusDeep Cut85points
- Banded MapwingDeep Cut85points
- Banded Orange HeliconianDeep Cut85points
- Banded Owl-ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Banded Pampas SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Banded Pancake PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Banded PeacockDeep Cut85points
- Banded pipefishDeep Cut85points
- Banded porcelain crabDeep Cut85points
- Banded pufferDeep Cut85points
- Banded pyrrhulinaDeep Cut85points
- Banded Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Banded rudderfishDeep Cut85points
- Banded SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Banded stargazerDeep Cut85points
- Banded TigerwingDeep Cut85points
- Banded toadfishDeep Cut85points
- Banded Tree AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Banded Tube-dwelling AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Banded whiptailDeep Cut85points
- Banded wood frogDeep Cut85points
- Banded worm gobyDeep Cut85points
- Banded wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Banded YellowDeep Cut85points
- Banded yellowfishDeep Cut85points
- Banded-arm Brittle StarDeep Cut85points
- Banded-limb glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Bandedtail gobyDeep Cut85points
- Bandeira button frogDeep Cut85points
- Bandeirantes snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Bandtail frogfishDeep Cut85points
- Bandtail pufferDeep Cut85points
- Bandtail searobinDeep Cut85points
- Bandtail tetraDeep 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.