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
- Peru Pacific IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Peru poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Peru Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Peru rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Peru Slender SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Peru stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Peru Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Peru white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Peruana SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Peruibe tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Peruíbe white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Perula CheckerspotDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian banded croakerDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian barbel drumDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian black head roachDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian black scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian BlondeDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian BoobyDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Brown BrocketDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Bush AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Checkered-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian chromisDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian conchDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Cotton RatDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Diving-PetrelDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Dwarf Beauty TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Dwarf Black-and-white TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian dwarf star tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian eelgobyDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian fern insectDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Fish-eating RatDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian flounderDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Green VelvetDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian gruntDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian hakeDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian locustDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian longfinDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian marine bird argasidDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian MartinDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian MeadowlarkDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian mojarraDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian moonfishDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian moraDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian morwongDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Mountain MouseDeep 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.