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
- Pointedbelly frogDeep Cut85points
- Pointy-headed dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Pointy-nosed robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Polama HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Polemon FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Polka dot cactus plecoDeep Cut85points
- Polka-dot batfishDeep Cut85points
- Polka-dot cusk-eelDeep Cut85points
- Polka-dot ribbonfishDeep Cut85points
- Polka-dot treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Polkadot catsharkDeep Cut85points
- Polkadotted HermitDeep Cut85points
- Polla drumDeep Cut85points
- Polop's Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Poltys satyrDeep Cut85points
- Polycrates SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Polyctor Tufted-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Polydamas SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Polygon morayDeep Cut85points
- Polymnia TigerwingDeep Cut85points
- Polyzona SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Pomarine JaegerDeep Cut85points
- Pombal's snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Pombal's tree frogDeep Cut85points
- PomfretDeep Cut85points
- Pompadour CotingaDeep Cut85points
- PompanoDeep Cut85points
- Pompano dolphinfishDeep Cut85points
- Pompeius SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Pond AmberwingDeep Cut85points
- Pond perchDeep Cut85points
- Pond snailDeep Cut85points
- Ponderous DosiniaDeep Cut85points
- PondhawkDeep Cut85points
- Pongo characinDeep Cut85points
- Pongo poison frogDeep Cut85points
- PoorwillDeep Cut85points
- Popayan marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Popayan Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Popeye catalufaDeep Cut85points
- Popeye lampfishDeep Cut85points
- Popla SkipperDeep Cut85points
- PorbeagleDeep Cut85points
- Porcelain crabDeep Cut85points
- Porcelain WoodlouseDeep Cut85points
- Porcupine river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- PorcupinefishDeep Cut85points
- Porehead blennyDeep Cut85points
- PorgyDeep Cut85points
- Porkchop CoralDeep 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.