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
- Pearl cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Pearl KiteDeep Cut85points
- Pearl oysterDeep Cut85points
- Pearl RayDeep Cut85points
- Pearl river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Pearled TreerunnerDeep Cut85points
- PearleyeDeep Cut85points
- PearlfishDeep Cut85points
- Pearlscale whiptailDeep Cut85points
- Pearly AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Pearly HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Pearly JingleDeep Cut85points
- Pearly lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Pearly ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Pearly pumpkin flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Pearly razorfishDeep Cut85points
- Pearly-bellied SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Pearly-breasted ConebillDeep Cut85points
- Pearly-breasted CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Pearly-eyed ThrasherDeep Cut85points
- Pearly-gray HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Pearly-vented Tody-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Pears' Rubbernose PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Pearson's Chaco MouseDeep Cut85points
- Pearson's Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Pearson's slender-legged treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Pearson's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Pebana SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Pebas Four-eyed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Pebas stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Pebbly MinistreakDeep Cut85points
- PeccaryDeep Cut85points
- Peck's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Peckoltia wernekeiDeep Cut85points
- Pectoral AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Pectoral SandpiperDeep Cut85points
- Pectoral SparrowDeep Cut85points
- Pederson Cleaner ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Pedra da Tartaruga flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Pedra Talhada hatchet-faced tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Pedro Eyed-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Pedro SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Pedusa HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Peeled potato spongeDeep Cut85points
- Pegasus MyscelusDeep Cut85points
- Pehuenche Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Pehuenche spiny-chest frogDeep Cut85points
- Peito de Moça bromeliad frogDeep Cut85points
- Peixoto's snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Pelada Mountain spiny-chest frogDeep 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.