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 portholefishDeep Cut85points
- Pacific red snapperDeep Cut85points
- Pacific reef bassDeep Cut85points
- Pacific sabretooth anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Pacific sandperchDeep Cut85points
- Pacific scabbardfishDeep Cut85points
- Pacific Sea PenDeep Cut85points
- Pacific seabobDeep Cut85points
- Pacific seahorseDeep Cut85points
- Pacific sharpnose sharkDeep Cut85points
- Pacific sierraDeep Cut85points
- Pacific silverstripe halfbeakDeep Cut85points
- Pacific sleeperDeep Cut85points
- Pacific smalleye croakerDeep Cut85points
- Pacific smalltail sharkDeep Cut85points
- Pacific snake eelDeep Cut85points
- Pacific spadefishDeep Cut85points
- Pacific Speckled CrabDeep Cut85points
- Pacific Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Pacific spookfishDeep Cut85points
- Pacific spotted scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Pacific stargazerDeep Cut85points
- Pacific tent-making batDeep Cut85points
- Pacific thorny oysterDeep Cut85points
- Pacific thread herringDeep Cut85points
- Pacific toadfishDeep Cut85points
- Pacific tripletailDeep Cut85points
- Pacific TuftedcheekDeep Cut85points
- Pacific WedgetailDeep Cut85points
- Pacific White Hoof ShellDeep Cut85points
- Pacific Wing OysterDeep Cut85points
- Pacific worm eelDeep Cut85points
- PacoraDeep Cut85points
- PacuDeep Cut85points
- Pacuma toadfishDeep Cut85points
- Padded clingfishDeep Cut85points
- Paddle wormDeep Cut85points
- Paddlenose chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Padial's Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Padre Luna tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Paetus HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Pagaibamba Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Page butterflyDeep Cut85points
- Paint-billed CrakeDeep Cut85points
- Painted Big-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Painted Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Painted Egg CockleDeep Cut85points
- Painted electric rayDeep Cut85points
- Painted Ghost CrabDeep Cut85points
- Painted LadyDeep 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.