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
- Quito rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Rabbit coryDeep Cut85points
- Rabbit fever tickDeep Cut85points
- Rabbit-ear BarnacleDeep Cut85points
- Rabbitnose shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Rabino's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- RacerDeep Cut85points
- Racer Mangrove CrabDeep Cut85points
- RacerunnerDeep Cut85points
- Racket tailDeep Cut85points
- Racket-tipped rubyspotDeep Cut85points
- Racket-tipped ThorntailDeep Cut85points
- Racta SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Raddi's Lizard-eating SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Radial Purse OysterDeep Cut85points
- Radiant skipperDeep Cut85points
- Ragged bigscaleDeep Cut85points
- Ragged gobyDeep Cut85points
- Ragged SeahareDeep Cut85points
- Ragweed Plume MothDeep Cut85points
- RagwormDeep Cut85points
- Rahim's eyelash pit viperDeep Cut85points
- Rahm's sun teguDeep Cut85points
- RailDeep Cut85points
- Railroad wormDeep Cut85points
- Raimondi's Yellow FinchDeep Cut85points
- Rain frogDeep Cut85points
- Rain frog of PaquishaDeep Cut85points
- Rain-forest Faceted-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Rain-forest Hoary-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Rainbow bassletDeep Cut85points
- Rainbow boaDeep Cut85points
- Rainbow copellaDeep Cut85points
- Rainbow dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Rainbow parrotfishDeep Cut85points
- Rainbow runnerDeep Cut85points
- Rainbow scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Rainbow StarfrontletDeep Cut85points
- Rainbow tetraDeep Cut85points
- Rainbow WhiptailDeep Cut85points
- Rainbow wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Rainbow-bearded ThornbillDeep Cut85points
- Rainer's Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Rainforest Hog-nosed PitviperDeep Cut85points
- Rainpool spreadwingDeep Cut85points
- Rake stardrumDeep Cut85points
- Rakery beaconlampDeep Cut85points
- Ram cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Ram's Horn SquidDeep Cut85points
- Ramari's Beaked WhaleDeep 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.