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
- Palespotted eelDeep Cut85points
- Palkachupa CotingaDeep Cut85points
- Pallas's long-tongued batDeep Cut85points
- Pallas's mastiff batDeep Cut85points
- Pallid Atlantic Forest RatDeep Cut85points
- Pallid Atlantic Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Pallid DoveDeep Cut85points
- Pallid dwarf treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Pallid Fat-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Pallid gobyDeep Cut85points
- Pallid Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Pallid SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Pallid-winged grasshopperDeep Cut85points
- Pallister's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Palm MothDeep Cut85points
- Palm rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Palm ruffDeep Cut85points
- Palm swiftDeep Cut85points
- Palm tanagerDeep Cut85points
- Palm treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Palm-Boring WeevilDeep Cut85points
- Palma Real Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Palmate Giant-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Palmeiras snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Palmer's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Palmer's Snail-EaterDeep Cut85points
- Palmer’s TeiidDeep Cut85points
- Palmer's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Palo Verde seed beetleDeep Cut85points
- Paloma pompanoDeep Cut85points
- Palp-footed spiderDeep Cut85points
- Pampa FinchDeep Cut85points
- Pampas catDeep Cut85points
- Pampas DeerDeep Cut85points
- Pampas FoxDeep Cut85points
- Pampas golden tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Pampas MeadowlarkDeep Cut85points
- Pampas myotisDeep Cut85points
- Pampas PipitDeep Cut85points
- Pampas SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Pampas Tawny-red TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Pamplona AnadiaDeep Cut85points
- Pamplona Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Panama anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Panama blonde tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Panama croakerDeep Cut85points
- Panama cross-banded treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Panama FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Panama gruntDeep Cut85points
- Panama hakeDeep 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.