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-based BannerDeep Cut85points
- Red-based GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Red-bellied GrackleDeep Cut85points
- Red-bellied MacawDeep Cut85points
- Red-bellied TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Red-bellied TitiDeep Cut85points
- Red-bellied toadDeep Cut85points
- Red-belly toadDeep Cut85points
- Red-billed CurassowDeep Cut85points
- Red-billed EmeraldDeep Cut85points
- Red-billed Ground-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Red-billed ParrotDeep Cut85points
- Red-billed Pied TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Red-billed ScythebillDeep Cut85points
- Red-billed TropicbirdDeep Cut85points
- Red-billed TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Red-billed WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Red-black Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Red-black Whorltail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Red-blotched river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Red-bordered PixieDeep Cut85points
- Red-breasted MeadowlarkDeep Cut85points
- Red-breasted ToucanDeep Cut85points
- Red-browed AmazonDeep Cut85points
- Red-Brown ArkDeep Cut85points
- Red-cap Mustached TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Red-capped CardinalDeep Cut85points
- Red-capped ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Red-collared FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Red-collared SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Red-costa MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Red-cowled CardinalDeep Cut85points
- Red-crescent Scrub-HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Red-crested CardinalDeep Cut85points
- Red-crested CotingaDeep Cut85points
- Red-cross teneboidDeep Cut85points
- Red-crowned Ant TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Red-crowned TitiDeep Cut85points
- Red-crowned WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Red-eared ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Red-eyed RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Red-eyed snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Red-eyed stream frogDeep Cut85points
- Red-eyed VireoDeep Cut85points
- Red-eyed woodlizardDeep Cut85points
- Red-faced Black Spider MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Red-faced dragonletDeep Cut85points
- Red-faced GuanDeep Cut85points
- Red-faced ParrotDeep Cut85points
- Red-faced SpinetailDeep 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.