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
- Puerto Eden frogDeep Cut85points
- Puerto Narino rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Puerto Rican Sand CrabDeep Cut85points
- Puff-ball snailDeep Cut85points
- PuffbirdDeep Cut85points
- Puffcheek blennyDeep Cut85points
- Puffing snakeDeep Cut85points
- PufflegDeep Cut85points
- Pug MothDeep Cut85points
- Pugjaw wormfishDeep Cut85points
- Pugnose gobyDeep Cut85points
- Pugnose grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Pugnose pipefishDeep Cut85points
- Pui Pui Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Pulmonate limpetDeep Cut85points
- Pumpkin Patch TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Pumpkin toadletDeep Cut85points
- Puna CanasteroDeep Cut85points
- Puna Clouded SulphurDeep Cut85points
- Puna Ground-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Puna IbisDeep Cut85points
- Puna MinerDeep Cut85points
- Puna PipitDeep Cut85points
- Puna PloverDeep Cut85points
- Puna reddish lizardDeep Cut85points
- Puna SnipeDeep Cut85points
- Puna TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Puna TealDeep Cut85points
- Puna ThistletailDeep Cut85points
- Puna TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Puna Yellow FinchDeep Cut85points
- Punched Stone CrabDeep Cut85points
- Punctate Burrowing SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Punctate DonaxDeep Cut85points
- Punctuated snake-eelDeep Cut85points
- Punctum HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Puno AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Puno Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Punta de Vacas Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Puntilla Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Punzan's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- PupfishDeep Cut85points
- Puquios Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Pura SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Purace SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Pure Coffee's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Purple and orange leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Purple AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Purple bristle crabDeep Cut85points
- Purple brotulaDeep 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.