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
- Pipe snakeDeep Cut85points
- PipefishDeep Cut85points
- PipehorseDeep Cut85points
- Piping guanDeep Cut85points
- Piping Long-tailed WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- PipitDeep Cut85points
- PipritesDeep Cut85points
- Piquitinga anchovyDeep Cut85points
- PiraíbaDeep Cut85points
- Piraja's LanceheadDeep Cut85points
- PirambebaDeep Cut85points
- PirapitingaDeep Cut85points
- Pirapitinga do SulDeep Cut85points
- Pirate spiderDeep Cut85points
- Piratic FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Pirre HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Pirre WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Pirri range stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Pisis GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Pistipata Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Pistipata Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Pistol shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Pita DotoDeep Cut85points
- Pitcher silversideDeep Cut85points
- Pitchy scarabDeep Cut85points
- Pitted SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Pittier's Crab-eating RatDeep Cut85points
- Pittier’s little frogDeep Cut85points
- Pityusa SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Piura Chat-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Piura HemispingusDeep Cut85points
- Piura Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Piura Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Piura Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Pizzaro stardrumDeep Cut85points
- Placeta FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Plain AntvireoDeep Cut85points
- Plain Brush-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Plain JaneDeep Cut85points
- Plain LongtailDeep Cut85points
- Plain metynnisDeep Cut85points
- Plain ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Plain PurplewingDeep Cut85points
- Plain SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Plain skipperDeep Cut85points
- Plain soapfishDeep Cut85points
- Plain SofttailDeep Cut85points
- Plain TheopeDeep Cut85points
- Plain ThornbirdDeep Cut85points
- Plain Tree SnakeDeep 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.