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
- Barrel spongeDeep Cut85points
- Barrel-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Barriga's RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Barrigona TetraDeep Cut85points
- Barrington Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Barrio's FrogDeep Cut85points
- Barro Branco treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Barron's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Barsnout gobyDeep Cut85points
- Bartail gobyDeep Cut85points
- Bartail jawfishDeep Cut85points
- Bartlett's TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Base-line HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Basecamp giant glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Bashful RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Basilica OrbweaverDeep Cut85points
- Basin Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Basin treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Basin white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Basin worm snakeDeep Cut85points
- Basket rock sea cucumberDeep Cut85points
- Basket shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Basket starDeep Cut85points
- Basketstar shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Basketwork eelDeep Cut85points
- Basoches Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Bass tetraDeep Cut85points
- Bassler's FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Bassler's Humming FrogDeep Cut85points
- BassletDeep Cut85points
- Bat eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Bat FalconDeep Cut85points
- Bat flyDeep Cut85points
- Batallon Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Bates' HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Bates' Kite-SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Bates' sabretooth anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Bates' SisterDeep Cut85points
- Bates's OlivewingDeep Cut85points
- BatfishDeep Cut85points
- Bath SpongesDeep Cut85points
- Bathory HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Bathurst Burr Seed FlyDeep Cut85points
- Battersby's Dwarf BoaDeep Cut85points
- Battersby's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Baturité PorcupineDeep Cut85points
- Batwing Coral CrabDeep Cut85points
- Baudo GuanDeep Cut85points
- Baudo OropendolaDeep Cut85points
- Baumann's ChromodoridDeep 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.