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
- PichiDeep Cut85points
- Pichincha Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Pichincha RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Pichincha Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Pichincha rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Pichinde Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Picken's TritonidDeep Cut85points
- Pickleworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Pico Caratuva flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Pico Marumbi flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Pico Tamacuari emerald-barred frogDeep Cut85points
- Picos treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Picture-winged Leaf MothDeep Cut85points
- Pictus catfishDeep Cut85points
- Picui Ground DoveDeep Cut85points
- PiculetDeep Cut85points
- PiddockDeep Cut85points
- Pied Bare-faced TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Pied LapwingDeep Cut85points
- Pied PuffbirdDeep Cut85points
- Pied Water-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Pied-billed GrebeDeep Cut85points
- Pied-crested Tit-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- PiedtailDeep Cut85points
- Pigeon EratoDeep Cut85points
- Pigmalion SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Pigmy flounderDeep Cut85points
- Pigweed flea beetleDeep Cut85points
- PihaDeep Cut85points
- Pijaos' glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Pike characinDeep Cut85points
- Pike cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Pike icefishDeep Cut85points
- PikeblennyDeep Cut85points
- PikecongerDeep Cut85points
- Pilalo tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Pilar Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Pile WormDeep Cut85points
- Pileated ParrotDeep Cut85points
- Pillar CoralDeep Cut85points
- Pilot whaleDeep Cut85points
- PilotfishDeep Cut85points
- Pimocha white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Pimpla SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Pin Cushion Sea UrchinDeep Cut85points
- Pin-tailed ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Pin-tailed pondhawkDeep Cut85points
- Pinche SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Pinchinda SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Pincoya Storm-PetrelDeep 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.