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
- Paryag's killifishDeep Cut85points
- Pasco Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Pasco tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Pasco white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Paseas SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Passalus Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Passany sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Passarelli's FrogDeep Cut85points
- Passionvine BugDeep Cut85points
- Passova FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Pastaza corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Pastaza marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Pastaza River CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Pastaza rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Pastaza Valley Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Pasture SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Pastuso harlequin toadDeep Cut85points
- Pastuso threadsnakeDeep Cut85points
- Patagonia frogDeep Cut85points
- Patagonia Green RacerDeep Cut85points
- Patagonia Mountain LizardDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian blennyDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian CanasteroDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian Chinchilla RatDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian codlingDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian Copper LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian dwarf bonneted batDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian flounderDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian Forest EarthcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian GeitodorisDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian hagfishDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian hakeDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian Hermit CrabDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian Keyhole LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian lanceheadDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian Mantis ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian MaraDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian MockingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian moray codDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian redfishDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian Rock Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian rockcodDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian ScallopDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian seahorseDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian Sierra FinchDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian skateDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian SquidDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian TegulaDeep 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.