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
- Rambur's forktailDeep Cut85points
- Rambuteau's BrangasDeep Cut85points
- Ramirez's Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Ramirez's rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Ramon BlueDeep Cut85points
- Ramos' Mushroom-tongue SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Ramos' rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Ramshorn snailDeep Cut85points
- Rana SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Rancho Grande harlequin frogDeep Cut85points
- Rancho Grande leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Rand's dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Rangel Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rank's snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Rapacious panther antDeep Cut85points
- Raphael catfishDeep Cut85points
- Rapi Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rapids frogDeep Cut85points
- Rara SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Rare Tufted-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Rascal DartDeep Cut85points
- Raspberry brittle starDeep Cut85points
- Raspthorn sand skateDeep Cut85points
- Raspy river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Rat-tailed Fusiform Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Raucous gruntDeep Cut85points
- Ravine HocicudoDeep Cut85points
- Ravine Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rawlins' SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Ray spiderDeep Cut85points
- Ray's treerunnerDeep Cut85points
- RayaditoDeep Cut85points
- Rayed keyhole limpetDeep Cut85points
- Rayed PurplewingDeep Cut85points
- Rayed SisterDeep Cut85points
- Razor clamDeep Cut85points
- Razor shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Razor surgeonfishDeep Cut85points
- Razor-billed CurassowDeep Cut85points
- Razorback scabbardfishDeep Cut85points
- Real bastard trumpeterDeep Cut85points
- Rearfin wormfishDeep Cut85points
- Rebains' portholefishDeep Cut85points
- Rebecca's marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Recife broad-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Recluse spiderDeep Cut85points
- Recurve-billed BushbirdDeep Cut85points
- RecurvebillDeep Cut85points
- Recurved coneDeep Cut85points
- Red AcouchiDeep 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.