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
- Rocena HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Rock beautyDeep Cut85points
- Rock blennyDeep Cut85points
- Rock CavyDeep Cut85points
- Rock clingfishDeep Cut85points
- Rock EarthcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Rock Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Rock hindDeep Cut85points
- Rock ratDeep Cut85points
- Rock shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Rock Snapping ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Rock TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Rock Whorltail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Rock-bacuDeep Cut85points
- Rock-Dwelling Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rockcut gobyDeep Cut85points
- Rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Rocket RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Rockmover wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Rockpool blennyDeep Cut85points
- Rockstone poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Rococo toadDeep Cut85points
- Rodrigues' Four-fingered TeiidDeep Cut85points
- Rodrigues' Lava LizardDeep Cut85points
- Rodrigues' MicroteeidDeep Cut85points
- Rodrigues' Red TeiidDeep Cut85points
- Rodriguez's Amazon treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Rogenhofer's SallowDeep Cut85points
- Rohde's leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Roig's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Roly Poly Orb WeaverDeep Cut85points
- Román's RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Romero's Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Ron's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Roncador catfishDeep Cut85points
- Roncador tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Rondon's MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Rondon's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Rondônia BlackheadDeep Cut85points
- Rondonia BushbirdDeep Cut85points
- Rondonia Warbling-antbirdDeep Cut85points
- Rondonian SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Roosevelt's gobyDeep Cut85points
- Roosmalens' PorcupineDeep Cut85points
- Rooster hindDeep Cut85points
- Rooster-tail ConchDeep Cut85points
- RoosterfishDeep Cut85points
- Rope SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Roque toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Roque treefrogDeep 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.