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
- Bandtooth congerDeep Cut85points
- Bandwing flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- Bang-Haas' SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Banhado frogDeep Cut85points
- Banjo catfishDeep Cut85points
- Banner MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Bannertail catfishDeep Cut85points
- Bar jackDeep Cut85points
- Bar-bellied WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Bar-bellied WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Bar-breasted PiculetDeep Cut85points
- Bar-crested AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Bar-sided DarnerDeep Cut85points
- Bar-winged Wood WrenDeep Cut85points
- Barbados Keyhole LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Barbara Brown's Brush-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Barbara's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Barbate dragonfishDeep Cut85points
- Barbedwire-tailed skateDeep Cut85points
- Barbel drumDeep Cut85points
- Barbel flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- Barber gobyDeep Cut85points
- Barber surgeonfishDeep Cut85points
- Barber's Giant MealybugDeep Cut85points
- BarbetDeep Cut85points
- BarbfishDeep Cut85points
- Barbless dragonfishDeep Cut85points
- Barbour's BachiaDeep Cut85points
- Barbour's Clawed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Barbour's worm lizardDeep Cut85points
- BarbtailDeep Cut85points
- BarbthroatDeep Cut85points
- BarbuDeep Cut85points
- BarbuliferDeep Cut85points
- Barce MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Bare ArcasDeep Cut85points
- Bare-crowned AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Bare-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Bare-eyed AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Bare-eyed Ground DoveDeep Cut85points
- Bare-eyed PigeonDeep Cut85points
- Bare-faced CurassowDeep Cut85points
- Bare-faced Ground DoveDeep Cut85points
- Bare-faced IbisDeep Cut85points
- Bare-necked FruitcrowDeep Cut85points
- Bare-shanked Screech-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Bare-tailed Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Bare-tailed Woolly Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Bare-tailed Woolly OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Bare-throated BellbirdDeep 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.