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-rumped WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Red-rust bryozoanDeep Cut85points
- Red-shouldered MacawDeep Cut85points
- Red-shouldered SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Red-shouldered TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Red-skirted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Red-spectacled AmazonDeep Cut85points
- Red-spotted FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Red-spotted glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Red-spotted HorseshoeDeep Cut85points
- Red-spotted MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Red-Spotted SiphonophoreDeep Cut85points
- Red-spotted stink bugDeep Cut85points
- Red-Spotted Sweetpotato MothDeep Cut85points
- Red-spotted toadDeep Cut85points
- Red-stained WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Red-stripe Hermit CrabDeep Cut85points
- Red-striped Acorn BarnacleDeep Cut85points
- Red-striped LeafwingDeep Cut85points
- Red-striped MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Red-striped rubyspotDeep Cut85points
- Red-studded SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Red-tailed AmazonDeep Cut85points
- Red-tailed blackwingDeep Cut85points
- Red-tailed CometDeep Cut85points
- Red-tailed Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Red-tailed pennantDeep Cut85points
- Red-tailed skimmerDeep Cut85points
- Red-tailed SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Red-tailed SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Red-tailed TropicbirdDeep Cut85points
- Red-tailed vanzosaurDeep Cut85points
- Red-thighed thin-toed frogDeep Cut85points
- Red-throated Ant TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Red-throated CaracaraDeep Cut85points
- Red-throated Piping-GuanDeep Cut85points
- Red-throated woodlizardDeep Cut85points
- Red-tipped Sea GoddessDeep Cut85points
- Red-tipped swampdamselDeep Cut85points
- Red-washed SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Red-winged TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Red-winged Wood-RailDeep Cut85points
- Redbacked Cleaner ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Redband parrotfishDeep Cut85points
- Redbanded thripsDeep Cut85points
- Redbellied dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Redbelly toadDeep Cut85points
- Redbelly triplefinDeep Cut85points
- Redbreast acaraDeep Cut85points
- Reddish Clearwing-SatyrDeep 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.