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
- Bare-throated Tiger-HeronDeep Cut85points
- Bareye HermitDeep Cut85points
- Barfin blennyDeep Cut85points
- Barfin gobyDeep Cut85points
- Bark AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Bark beetleDeep Cut85points
- Bark scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Barker frogDeep Cut85points
- Barking Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Barn SwallowDeep Cut85points
- Barnacle ScaleDeep Cut85points
- Barnaclebill blennyDeep Cut85points
- Barnard's lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Barnes' lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Barnes' MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Barnes's SisterDeep Cut85points
- Barnett's LanceheadDeep Cut85points
- Baron's Green RacerDeep Cut85points
- Baron's Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Baron's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Barquez's myotisDeep Cut85points
- Barra do Garças snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Barracón tree frogDeep Cut85points
- BarracudinaDeep Cut85points
- Barred AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Barred AntthrushDeep Cut85points
- Barred BecardDeep Cut85points
- Barred cardinalfishDeep Cut85points
- Barred clingfishDeep Cut85points
- Barred flagtailDeep Cut85points
- Barred Forest-FalconDeep Cut85points
- Barred FruiteaterDeep Cut85points
- Barred glass tetraDeep Cut85points
- Barred gruntDeep Cut85points
- Barred hamletDeep Cut85points
- Barred HawkDeep Cut85points
- Barred hemiodusDeep Cut85points
- Barred knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Barred ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Barred pencilfishDeep Cut85points
- Barred pipefishDeep Cut85points
- Barred PuffbirdDeep Cut85points
- Barred searobinDeep Cut85points
- Barred serranoDeep Cut85points
- Barred sorubimDeep Cut85points
- Barred TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Barred woodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Barred YellowDeep Cut85points
- Barredtail corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Barredtail pearlfishDeep 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.