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
- Baumann's tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Baumgardner's snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Baur's Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Bay AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Bay BarnacleDeep Cut85points
- Bay whiffDeep Cut85points
- Bay WrenDeep Cut85points
- Bay-breasted WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Bay-capped Wren-spinetailDeep Cut85points
- Bay-chested Warbling FinchDeep Cut85points
- Bay-crowned BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Bay-headed TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Bay-ringed TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Bay-vented CotingaDeep Cut85points
- BaywingDeep Cut85points
- Beach fleaDeep Cut85points
- Beach flounderDeep Cut85points
- Beach Mole CrabDeep Cut85points
- Beach silversideDeep Cut85points
- Beaded Mud CrabDeep Cut85points
- Beaded PeriwinkleDeep Cut85points
- Beaded Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Beaded VenusDeep Cut85points
- Beaked BlackheadDeep Cut85points
- Beaked salmonDeep Cut85points
- Beaked toadDeep Cut85points
- Beaked whaleDeep Cut85points
- Bean LooperDeep Cut85points
- Bean WeevilDeep Cut85points
- Bean-leaf Webworm MothDeep Cut85points
- Bean's bigscaleDeep Cut85points
- Bean's searobinDeep Cut85points
- Bearded banded croakerDeep Cut85points
- Bearded BellbirdDeep Cut85points
- Bearded brotulaDeep Cut85points
- Bearded CapuchinDeep Cut85points
- Bearded catfishDeep Cut85points
- Bearded Emperor TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Bearded FirewormDeep Cut85points
- Bearded gobyDeep Cut85points
- Bearded GuanDeep Cut85points
- Bearded Hoof ShellDeep Cut85points
- Bearded MountaineerDeep Cut85points
- Bearded pufferDeep Cut85points
- Bearded sakiDeep Cut85points
- Bearded TachuriDeep Cut85points
- Bearded WeevilDeep Cut85points
- BeardfishDeep Cut85points
- Beardless codlingDeep Cut85points
- Beardless tyrannuletDeep 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.