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
- Purple ConeDeep Cut85points
- Purple crabDeep Cut85points
- Purple dancerDeep Cut85points
- Purple Encrusting BryozoanDeep Cut85points
- Purple footed porcellan crabDeep Cut85points
- Purple GallinuleDeep Cut85points
- Purple harlequin toadDeep Cut85points
- Purple HoneycreeperDeep Cut85points
- Purple MartinDeep Cut85points
- Purple MusselDeep Cut85points
- Purple Owl-ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Purple PencilfishDeep Cut85points
- Purple Quail-DoveDeep Cut85points
- Purple reeffishDeep Cut85points
- Purple Rock CrabDeep Cut85points
- Purple ScallopDeep Cut85points
- Purple Sea FanDeep Cut85points
- Purple Sea ManeDeep Cut85points
- Purple Sea PlumeDeep Cut85points
- Purple SemeleDeep Cut85points
- Purple Stone CrabDeep Cut85points
- Purple Tree SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Purple Venus ClamDeep Cut85points
- Purple wormDeep Cut85points
- Purple-backed SunbeamDeep Cut85points
- Purple-backed ThornbillDeep Cut85points
- Purple-bibbed WhitetipDeep Cut85points
- Purple-breasted CotingaDeep Cut85points
- Purple-chested HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Purple-collared WoodstarDeep Cut85points
- Purple-crowned FairyDeep Cut85points
- Purple-crowned PlovercrestDeep Cut85points
- Purple-crowned Sea GoddessDeep Cut85points
- Purple-sided leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Purple-spotted Sea GoddessDeep Cut85points
- Purple-stained SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Purple-tailed hairy-eyed sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Purple-throated CotingaDeep Cut85points
- Purple-throated EuphoniaDeep Cut85points
- Purple-throated FruitcrowDeep Cut85points
- Purple-throated SunangelDeep Cut85points
- Purple-throated WoodstarDeep Cut85points
- Purple-topped EuselasiaDeep Cut85points
- Purple-washed EuselasiaDeep Cut85points
- Purple-washed Eyed-MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Purple-washed SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Purple-webbed MinistreakDeep Cut85points
- Purple-winged Ground DoveDeep Cut85points
- Purplebelly skateDeep Cut85points
- Purplemouth gruntDeep 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.