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
- Rio Mombucaba robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Mutum FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Mutum snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Napo coryDeep Cut85points
- Rio Negro Bearded SakiDeep Cut85points
- Rio Negro Brush-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Rio Negro Chocolate CichlidDeep Cut85points
- Rio negro coryDeep Cut85points
- Río Negro frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Negro GnatcatcherDeep Cut85points
- Rio Negro pygmy anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Río Negro rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Negro Silky AnteaterDeep Cut85points
- Río Negro snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Río Negro stream treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Negro Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Rio Orinoco SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Rio Parahyba toadDeep Cut85points
- Rio pearlfishDeep Cut85points
- Rio Perene toadDeep Cut85points
- Rio Pescado stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- Rio Pitzara Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Piuntza Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Reventador Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Santa Rosa SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Rio Santiago CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Rio Santiago poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio skateDeep Cut85points
- Rio spinythumb frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Suno AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Rio Tapajós tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Rio Tuquesa treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Uaupes Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Uaupes treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Verde button frogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Verde snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Rio Zamora spiny-backed frogDeep Cut85points
- Riobamba marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Rioja giant glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Rioja rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Riparian AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Riparian myotisDeep Cut85points
- Riparian ParrotletDeep Cut85points
- Ripsaw catfishDeep Cut85points
- Risaralda rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Risso's DolphinDeep 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.