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
- Perforata SootywingDeep Cut85points
- Perforating wormDeep Cut85points
- Periander MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Perico Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Peridot tetraDeep Cut85points
- Perija AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Perijá backpacker frogDeep Cut85points
- Perija BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Perijá Lichen-GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Perija MetaltailDeep Cut85points
- Perija ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Perija Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Perija StarfrontletDeep Cut85points
- Perijá Striped Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Perija TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Perija ThistletailDeep Cut85points
- Perija’s nurse frogDeep Cut85points
- Perijá’s stream frogDeep Cut85points
- Perilla Leaf MothDeep Cut85points
- Periquito Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- PeriwinkleDeep Cut85points
- Perla yellow-shouldered batDeep Cut85points
- PermitDeep Cut85points
- Pernambuco Dwarf PorcupineDeep Cut85points
- Pernambuco Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- Pernambuco TeiidDeep Cut85points
- Pernambuco white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Pernambuco worm snakeDeep Cut85points
- Perniciosus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Perornatus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Perpendicular GraphicDeep Cut85points
- Perrens's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Perrier's sea cucumberDeep Cut85points
- Persistent anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Persistent SalianaDeep Cut85points
- Perty's FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Peru Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Peru BachiaDeep Cut85points
- Peru black coryDeep Cut85points
- Peru blind snakeDeep Cut85points
- Peru Burrowing SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Peru Clawed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Peru coast toadDeep Cut85points
- Peru Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Peru Desert TeguDeep Cut85points
- Peru Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Peru KeelbackDeep Cut85points
- Peru Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Peru marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Peru Mushroomtongue SalamanderDeep 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.