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
- Parana SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Paraná tropical bullfrogDeep Cut85points
- Paranaiba snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Paranapiacaba rapids frogDeep Cut85points
- Paranapiacaba Smooth Horned FrogDeep Cut85points
- Paranapiacaba treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Parasitic JaegerDeep Cut85points
- Parassi mulletDeep Cut85points
- Pardiñas's Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- ParduscoDeep Cut85points
- Parecis TitiDeep Cut85points
- Paria BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Paria Cloud Forest LandfrogDeep Cut85points
- Paria collared frogDeep Cut85points
- Paria Dwarf LandfrogDeep Cut85points
- Paria glass-frogDeep Cut85points
- Paria Twin LandfrogDeep Cut85points
- Paria WhitestartDeep Cut85points
- Paria Wood ElfDeep Cut85points
- Parima rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Parin's anthiasDeep Cut85points
- Parin's grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Parin's spinyfishDeep Cut85points
- Parjacti treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Parker's Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Parker's AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Parker's Brazilian Dumpy FrogDeep Cut85points
- Parker's CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Parker's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Parker's Litter FrogDeep Cut85points
- Parker's Many-fingered TeiidDeep Cut85points
- Parker's PholidobolusDeep Cut85points
- Parker's SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Parker's Whorltail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Parkinson's PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Parma SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Parnaiba river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Parodi's HemispingusDeep Cut85points
- Paroeca SisterDeep Cut85points
- Parona leatherjacketDeep Cut85points
- Parr's lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Parrot DoradidDeep Cut85points
- Parrot grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Parrot LeporinusDeep Cut85points
- Parrot pacuDeep Cut85points
- Parrot snakeDeep Cut85points
- Parrot-billed SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- ParrotletDeep Cut85points
- Paru Tiger PlecoDeep Cut85points
- ParulaDeep 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.