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
- Plee's Tropical RacerDeep Cut85points
- Ploetz's Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Plötz's TelemiadesDeep Cut85points
- PloverDeep Cut85points
- PlovercrestDeep Cut85points
- Plownose chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Plum-colored Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Plum-throated CotingaDeep Cut85points
- Pluma porgyDeep Cut85points
- Plumbeous AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Plumbeous AntvireoDeep Cut85points
- Plumbeous Black-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Plumbeous EuphoniaDeep Cut85points
- Plumbeous Forest-FalconDeep Cut85points
- Plumbeous HawkDeep Cut85points
- Plumbeous IbisDeep Cut85points
- Plumbeous KiteDeep Cut85points
- Plumbeous PigeonDeep Cut85points
- Plumbeous RailDeep Cut85points
- Plumbeous SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Plumbeous Sierra FinchDeep Cut85points
- Plumbeous-backed ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Plumbeous-crowned TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Plume mothDeep Cut85points
- Plumed scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Plumed WormDeep Cut85points
- PlumeleteerDeep Cut85points
- PlumetopsDeep Cut85points
- Plumose AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Plush-crested JayDeep Cut85points
- PlushcapDeep Cut85points
- Pluto SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Pocao snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- PochardDeep Cut85points
- Pocket gopherDeep Cut85points
- Pocket mouseDeep Cut85points
- Pocket sharkDeep Cut85points
- Poços de Caldas tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Podocarpus harlequinDeep Cut85points
- Poecile CheckerspotDeep Cut85points
- Poey's anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Pohl's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Point catfishDeep Cut85points
- Point-nosed croakerDeep Cut85points
- Point-tailed PalmcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Point-Tuza croakerDeep Cut85points
- Pointed Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Pointed Leafwing ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Pointed SisterDeep Cut85points
- Pointed VenusDeep 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.