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
- Pacific blackdragonDeep Cut85points
- Pacific bumperDeep Cut85points
- Pacific Calico ScallopDeep Cut85points
- Pacific chupareDeep Cut85points
- Pacific CockroachDeep Cut85points
- Pacific cornetfishDeep Cut85points
- Pacific cownose rayDeep Cut85points
- Pacific creole-fishDeep Cut85points
- Pacific crevalle jackDeep Cut85points
- Pacific Crown ConchDeep Cut85points
- Pacific deepwater flounderDeep Cut85points
- Pacific DeguDeep Cut85points
- Pacific dog snapperDeep Cut85points
- Pacific drumDeep Cut85points
- Pacific eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Pacific ElaeniaDeep Cut85points
- Pacific eyed flounderDeep Cut85points
- Pacific fat sleeperDeep Cut85points
- Pacific flagfin mojarraDeep Cut85points
- Pacific FlatbillDeep Cut85points
- Pacific flatiron herringDeep Cut85points
- Pacific footballfishDeep Cut85points
- Pacific forest long-tongued batDeep Cut85points
- Pacific giant glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Pacific goliath grouperDeep Cut85points
- Pacific graysbyDeep Cut85points
- Pacific guitarfishDeep Cut85points
- Pacific Hairback Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Pacific harvestfishDeep Cut85points
- Pacific hatchet fishDeep Cut85points
- Pacific headlightfishDeep Cut85points
- Pacific Horned FrogDeep Cut85points
- Pacific ilishaDeep Cut85points
- Pacific jack mackerelDeep Cut85points
- Pacific kingcroakerDeep Cut85points
- Pacific leopard flounderDeep Cut85points
- Pacific Long-tailed SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Pacific longnose chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Pacific lowland tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Pacific Mangrove Ghost CrabDeep Cut85points
- Pacific menhadenDeep Cut85points
- Pacific Mole CrabDeep Cut85points
- Pacific Mottled Shore CrabDeep Cut85points
- Pacific mutton hamletDeep Cut85points
- Pacific nurse sharkDeep Cut85points
- Pacific ParrotletDeep Cut85points
- Pacific Peanut WormDeep Cut85points
- Pacific pearlfishDeep Cut85points
- Pacific pomfretDeep Cut85points
- Pacific porgyDeep 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.