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
- Ridged Cactus CoralDeep Cut85points
- Ridged eelDeep Cut85points
- Ridged Fire CoralDeep Cut85points
- Ridged Kelp CrabDeep Cut85points
- RidgeheadDeep Cut85points
- Ridley's fire spongeDeep Cut85points
- Ridley's Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Right whaleDeep Cut85points
- Rigid Sea PlumeDeep Cut85points
- Rigid VenusDeep Cut85points
- Rigid-spined Atlantic Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Rimac Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rimose Fungus-farming AntDeep Cut85points
- Rimosus SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Rimspine searobinDeep Cut85points
- Ring ClamDeep Cut85points
- Ring-necked Clawed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Ring-necked DuckDeep Cut85points
- Ringed AntpipitDeep Cut85points
- Ringed barracudinaDeep Cut85points
- Ringed blennyDeep Cut85points
- Ringed CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Ringed cantharusDeep Cut85points
- Ringed Centipede SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Ringed ForceptailDeep Cut85points
- Ringed Hognose SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Ringed KingfisherDeep Cut85points
- Ringed manticoreDeep Cut85points
- Ringed Slender Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Ringed Snail SuckerDeep Cut85points
- Ringed TealDeep Cut85points
- Ringed Warbling FinchDeep Cut85points
- Ringed WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Ringed WormsnailDeep Cut85points
- Ringeye congerDeep Cut85points
- RingletDeep Cut85points
- Ringneck blennyDeep Cut85points
- Ringspot LeafhopperDeep Cut85points
- Ringtail pike cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Rio Abacaxis spiny-backed frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Acarí MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Rio Ampiyacu Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Rio Apurimac tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Arassuahy swimming frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Aripuanã MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Rio Azuela glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Azuela Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Babi snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Bahu white-lipped frogDeep 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.