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
- PorkfishDeep Cut85points
- Porous sea rodDeep Cut85points
- Porphyria SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Porter's Rock RatDeep Cut85points
- Porthole catfishDeep Cut85points
- Porthole shovelnose catfishDeep Cut85points
- PortholefishDeep Cut85points
- Porthura HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Porto Alegre golden-eyed treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Porto Sauípe snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Porto Seguro snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Portuguese dogfishDeep Cut85points
- Porus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Porvenir Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Posada glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Postbox PlecoDeep Cut85points
- PostmanDeep Cut85points
- Pota SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Potaro coryDeep Cut85points
- Potato flea beetleDeep Cut85points
- Potato leaf beetleDeep Cut85points
- Potato SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Potato Tuber MothDeep Cut85points
- Potesta SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Potitinga prawnDeep Cut85points
- Potrero Spiny-chest FrogDeep Cut85points
- Potter foam frogDeep Cut85points
- Potter waspDeep Cut85points
- PotwormDeep Cut85points
- Potyguara coral snakeDeep Cut85points
- Pouch snake eelDeep Cut85points
- Pouched lampreyDeep Cut85points
- Povoação tropical bullfrogDeep Cut85points
- Power's deep-water bristle-mouth fishDeep Cut85points
- Powerful WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Prado toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Prado's BlackheadDeep Cut85points
- Prado's Coastal House SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Praemortuus's rainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Prairie tree cricketDeep Cut85points
- Pram bugDeep Cut85points
- Pratt's rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Pratt's Snail-eaterDeep Cut85points
- Praxis HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Precious metal beetleDeep Cut85points
- Predicted AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Pregonero Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Prehistoric Monster FishDeep Cut85points
- Preocular Blind SnakeDeep Cut85points
- PreponaDeep 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.