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
- Río Beni TitiDeep Cut85points
- Rio big-tooth frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Brain CoralDeep Cut85points
- Rio Branco AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Rio Calima Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Calima Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Calles Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Carauta stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Rio Cauca CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Rio Cauca fringe-limbed tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Río Cerranayacu Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Río Chili toadDeep Cut85points
- Rio Chingual Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Chingual valley treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Chipillico FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Coca Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio ConeDeep Cut85points
- Rio Cosnipata Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio de Janeiro AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Rio de Janeiro AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Rio de Janeiro Arboreal RatDeep Cut85points
- Rio de Janeiro Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Rio de Janeiro TeiidDeep Cut85points
- Rio de Lençóis tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Doce snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Doce white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Elongated FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Faisanes Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Faisanes stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Río Gálvez Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Rio glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio golden-eyed treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Grande do Sul blind snakeDeep Cut85points
- Rio Grande dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Grande EscuerzoDeep Cut85points
- Rio Grande toadDeep Cut85points
- Rio Grande tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Rio Grande Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Río Huallaga stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Rio Huancabamba Leaf-toed GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Rio Juruá Collared TitiDeep Cut85points
- Rio lime treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Lita CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Rio Luisito Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Luisito treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Madeira poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Madeira StipplethroatDeep Cut85points
- Rio Magdalena MiniteguDeep Cut85points
- Río Magdalena Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Rio Mamore Robber 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.