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
- Rita's glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Rita’s RemellaDeep Cut85points
- River DancerDeep Cut85points
- River gobyDeep Cut85points
- River hatchetfishDeep Cut85points
- River Plate spratDeep Cut85points
- River Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- River RubyspotDeep Cut85points
- River shrimpDeep Cut85points
- River SpongeDeep Cut85points
- River TeiidDeep Cut85points
- River turtleDeep Cut85points
- River TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Rivera redbelly toadDeep Cut85points
- Riverbank WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Rivero carrying frogDeep Cut85points
- Rivero's Amazon treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Rivero's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Rivero's poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Rivero's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rivero's rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Rivero's toadDeep Cut85points
- Rivero's white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Riverside TyrantDeep Cut85points
- Rivulated mutton hamletDeep Cut85points
- Riza SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Road coryDeep Cut85points
- Roadside HawkDeep Cut85points
- Roaming caterpillar hunterDeep Cut85points
- Robalo drumDeep Cut85points
- Robayo's rainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Robba SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Robber beeDeep Cut85points
- Robber flyDeep Cut85points
- Rober's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Robert's Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Robert's cowrieDeep Cut85points
- Robert's Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Robert's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Roberto’s lizardDeep Cut85points
- Robinson's Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Robust assfishDeep Cut85points
- Robust cardinalfishDeep Cut85points
- Robust coryDeep Cut85points
- Robust cusk-eelDeep Cut85points
- Robust Dark Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Robust tree hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Robust Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Robust WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Rocas gregoryDeep 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.