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
- Reef SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Reef squirrelfishDeep Cut85points
- Reef TunicateDeep Cut85points
- Reef UrchinDeep Cut85points
- Reef-cave brotulaDeep Cut85points
- Reefsand blennyDeep Cut85points
- Regal Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Regal HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Regal MurexDeep Cut85points
- Regal SarotaDeep Cut85points
- Regan's anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Regan's dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Reichle's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Reig's Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Reig's Montane MouseDeep Cut85points
- Reig's OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Reinhardt's CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Reinhardt's lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Reinhardt's Lava LizardDeep Cut85points
- Reiser's TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Rejected Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Remo flounderDeep Cut85points
- RemoraDeep Cut85points
- Renal Smooth-horned FrogDeep Cut85points
- Renaldus JewelmarkDeep Cut85points
- Renata’s SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Rendezvous fishDeep Cut85points
- Requiem sharkDeep Cut85points
- Reserve Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Reservoir treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Resistance RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Resistencia toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Resplendent Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Resplendent frogDeep Cut85points
- Resplendent Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Restinga AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Restinga toadletDeep Cut85points
- Restinga TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Reticulate Centipede SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Reticulate hookjaw morayDeep Cut85points
- Reticulate leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Reticulate morayDeep Cut85points
- Reticulate Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Reticulate spikefishDeep Cut85points
- Reticulate stargazerDeep Cut85points
- Reticulate treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Reticulate worm snakeDeep Cut85points
- Reticulated Brittle StarDeep Cut85points
- Reticulated corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Reticulated Cowry HelmetDeep 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.