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
- Patagonian TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian TyrantDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian WeaselDeep Cut85points
- Patagonian Yellow FinchDeep Cut85points
- Pataikos RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Patchtail tonguefishDeep Cut85points
- Patchwork lampfishDeep Cut85points
- Pater SkipperDeep Cut85points
- PatiDeep Cut85points
- Patian LanceheadDeep Cut85points
- Patricia's disk-winged batDeep Cut85points
- Patrobas SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Patroculus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Patterned Whorltail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Patton's Atlantic Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Patton's nectar batDeep Cut85points
- Patton's Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Pau Brasil Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Pau-rosa tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Pauini treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Paula's ClearwingDeep Cut85points
- Paulina's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Paulo's lime treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Paulo's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Pauper SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Pauper Slender-Stingless beeDeep Cut85points
- PauropodDeep Cut85points
- Pausanias swallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Pavon EmperorDeep Cut85points
- Pavonine CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Pavonine QuetzalDeep Cut85points
- Pawnee dragonfishDeep Cut85points
- PayaraDeep Cut85points
- Pazina MellanaDeep Cut85points
- Pea leafminerDeep Cut85points
- Peach Spotted PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Peach-fronted ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Peacock bassDeep Cut85points
- Peacock butterflyDeep Cut85points
- Peacock CoquetteDeep Cut85points
- Peacock wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Peak Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Peaked RedspotDeep Cut85points
- Peale's DolphinDeep Cut85points
- Peale's free-tailed batDeep Cut85points
- Peanut wormDeep Cut85points
- Pear-shaped ConeDeep Cut85points
- Pear-winged Leafwing ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Pearl blennyDeep 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.