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
- Red pike congerDeep Cut85points
- Red Pileated FinchDeep Cut85points
- Red Pipe SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Red pondhawkDeep Cut85points
- Red porgyDeep Cut85points
- Red PostmanDeep Cut85points
- Red Reef HermitDeep Cut85points
- Red Ridged Clinging CrabDeep Cut85points
- Red saddlebagsDeep Cut85points
- Red scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Red Sea AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Red sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Red searobinDeep Cut85points
- Red shoulder wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Red ShovelerDeep Cut85points
- Red Silky AnteaterDeep Cut85points
- Red SiskinDeep Cut85points
- Red Skeleton TarantulaDeep Cut85points
- Red Snapping ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Red snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Red South American pelecinid waspDeep Cut85points
- Red speckled barnacleDeep Cut85points
- Red spiny cushion starDeep Cut85points
- Red Sponge DoridDeep Cut85points
- Red spot bristlenoseDeep Cut85points
- Red spotted Argentina frogDeep Cut85points
- Red Spotted Worm Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Red Sun StarDeep Cut85points
- Red TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Red teguDeep Cut85points
- Red Uakari poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Red Viscacha RatDeep Cut85points
- Red WormlizardDeep Cut85points
- Red-and-black bugDeep Cut85points
- Red-and-black flatwingDeep Cut85points
- Red-and-black GrosbeakDeep Cut85points
- Red-and-green MacawDeep Cut85points
- Red-and-white AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Red-and-white CrakeDeep Cut85points
- Red-and-white SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Red-backed carpenterDeep Cut85points
- Red-backed poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Red-backed Sierra FinchDeep Cut85points
- Red-banded AltinoteDeep Cut85points
- Red-banded FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Red-banded FruiteaterDeep Cut85points
- Red-banded stink bugDeep Cut85points
- Red-barred AmarynthisDeep Cut85points
- Red-barred wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Red-base TetraDeep 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.