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
- Pinda SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Pine's Crab-eating RatDeep Cut85points
- Pine's OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Pineapple mealybugDeep Cut85points
- Pinecone fishDeep Cut85points
- Pinheiro's Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Pinima peacock bassDeep Cut85points
- Pink cardinalfishDeep Cut85points
- Pink ClearwingDeep Cut85points
- Pink corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Pink cusk-eelDeep Cut85points
- Pink Fairy ArmadilloDeep Cut85points
- Pink frogmouthDeep Cut85points
- Pink HawkmothDeep Cut85points
- Pink maomaoDeep Cut85points
- Pink MeanieDeep Cut85points
- Pink Mouth AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Pink punk jewelDeep Cut85points
- Pink Purple Octopus SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Pink Snout MothDeep Cut85points
- Pink Spotted Jacket ToniciaDeep Cut85points
- Pink toe tarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Pink TriviaDeep Cut85points
- Pink Vase SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Pink wormfishDeep Cut85points
- Pink Zebra Beauty TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Pink-banded sisterDeep Cut85points
- Pink-footed ShearwaterDeep Cut85points
- Pink-legged GraveteiroDeep Cut85points
- Pink-lined RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Pink-spotted HawkmothDeep Cut85points
- Pink-tailed Forest RacerDeep Cut85points
- Pink-throated BecardDeep Cut85points
- Pink-throated BrilliantDeep Cut85points
- Pink-washed Looper MothDeep Cut85points
- Pinkish topsnailDeep Cut85points
- Pinktail chalceusDeep Cut85points
- Pinktail triggerfishDeep Cut85points
- Pinkthroat corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Pinnated BitternDeep Cut85points
- Pinocchio Cobweb SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Pinocchio RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Pinocchio Whiptail CatfishDeep Cut85points
- Pinpoint ConeDeep Cut85points
- Pintado PetrelDeep Cut85points
- PintailDeep Cut85points
- Pinto's SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Pinzón Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Pionia SkipperDeep Cut85points
- PionusDeep 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.