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
- Painted ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Painted ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Painted ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Painted snipeDeep Cut85points
- Painted stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Painted TheopeDeep Cut85points
- Painted Tody-flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Painted Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Painted Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Painted TunicateDeep Cut85points
- Painted WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Painted wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Paintspotted morayDeep Cut85points
- Paired-Bell SiphonophoreDeep Cut85points
- Paisa frogDeep Cut85points
- Paita kingcroakerDeep Cut85points
- Paiva's blennyDeep Cut85points
- Pajamas treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Paladines Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Palaeste MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Palanda rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Pale AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Pale BaywingDeep Cut85points
- Pale BluewingDeep Cut85points
- Pale bristlemouthDeep Cut85points
- Pale brown long-tongued batDeep Cut85points
- Pale CadlinaDeep Cut85points
- Pale cardinalfishDeep Cut85points
- Pale catfishDeep Cut85points
- Pale Collared Scarlet SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Pale CrackerDeep Cut85points
- Pale Damsel BugDeep Cut85points
- Pale Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Pale HerdmaniaDeep Cut85points
- Pale MinistreakDeep Cut85points
- Pale MylonDeep Cut85points
- Pale Owl-ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Pale PericoteDeep Cut85points
- Pale PreponaDeep Cut85points
- Pale Red BugDeep Cut85points
- Pale rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Pale SailorDeep Cut85points
- Pale SicklewingDeep Cut85points
- Pale spear-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Pale threadtail snipe eelDeep Cut85points
- Pale TitiDeep Cut85points
- Pale YellowDeep Cut85points
- Pale-banded DarnerDeep Cut85points
- Pale-bellied HermitDeep Cut85points
- Pale-bellied MournerDeep 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.