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
- Pandora SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Panduro dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Panga big-headed frogDeep Cut85points
- Panguana poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Panguana Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Panimeron SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Paniscoides SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Panna SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Pannaria WaveDeep Cut85points
- Pansy DaggerwingDeep Cut85points
- Pantaloon cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Pantanal Barracuda TetraDeep Cut85points
- Pantanal CatDeep Cut85points
- Pantanal Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Pantanal coryDeep Cut85points
- Pantanal dwarf catfishDeep Cut85points
- Pantanal eartheaterDeep Cut85points
- Pantanal parasitic catfishDeep Cut85points
- Pantanal PunareDeep Cut85points
- Pantanal SnipeDeep Cut85points
- Pantepui Relict DamselDeep Cut85points
- Pantepui Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Pantepui ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Pantha SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Panther antDeep Cut85points
- Panther knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Panther Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Pantropical Spotted DolphinDeep Cut85points
- Papa PanaqueDeep Cut85points
- Papallacta marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Papallacta Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Papallacta treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Papallacta Valley Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Papaya Fruit FlyDeep Cut85points
- Paper waspDeep Cut85points
- PaperbonesDeep Cut85points
- Paphos SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Papillate clingfishDeep Cut85points
- Papillose ElysiaDeep Cut85points
- Papillous wormDeep Cut85points
- Pará BlackheadDeep Cut85points
- Pará Climbing SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Para coral snakeDeep Cut85points
- Para Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- Para GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Para GnatcatcherDeep Cut85points
- Para GreenletDeep Cut85points
- Para mollyDeep Cut85points
- Para Mongo ZebraDeep Cut85points
- Para PlecoDeep 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.