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
- Peruvian Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian paper waspDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian PelicanDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian periwinkleDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian PiedtailDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian PigeonDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Pinktoe TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian PipitDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian PlantcutterDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian pufferDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Pygmy-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Racket-tailDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian RecurvebillDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian rock seabassDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian rustyDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Screech-OwlDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian SheartailDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian shield mantisDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Short-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Sierra FinchDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian skateDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Snail-eaterDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian tailless batDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian TernDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian tetraDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Thick-kneeDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian ToroDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian torpedoDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian violet crabDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Warbling-antbirdDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian weakfishDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Woolly Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian WrenDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Yellow ClamDeep Cut85points
- Peruvian Yungas PuduDeep Cut85points
- Pervivax SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Peter's Climbing SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Peter's clingfishDeep Cut85points
- Peter's harlequin toadDeep Cut85points
- Peters' AmeivaDeep Cut85points
- Peters' AnadiaDeep 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.