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
- Roque's toadDeep Cut85points
- Roraima bush toadDeep Cut85points
- Roraima MouseDeep Cut85points
- Roraima SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Roraima StefaniaDeep Cut85points
- Roraiman AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Roraiman AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Roraiman BarbtailDeep Cut85points
- Roraiman FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Roraiman NightjarDeep Cut85points
- Roraiman WarblerDeep Cut85points
- RorqualDeep Cut85points
- Rorschach Flower ScarabDeep Cut85points
- Rosa's round rayDeep Cut85points
- Rosado's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rosalind's Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Rose blind snakeDeep Cut85points
- Rose CoralDeep Cut85points
- Rose Flower UrchinDeep Cut85points
- Rose Lace CoralDeep Cut85points
- Rose Mouth MorumDeep Cut85points
- Rose MurexDeep Cut85points
- Rose spiny brittle starDeep Cut85points
- Rose Whorltail IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Rose-bellied ChatDeep Cut85points
- Rose-breasted ChatDeep Cut85points
- Rose-breasted GrosbeakDeep Cut85points
- Rose-collared PihaDeep Cut85points
- Rose-faced ParrotDeep Cut85points
- Rose-fronted ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Rose-headed ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Rose-lipped thin-toed frogDeep Cut85points
- Rose-petal tellinDeep Cut85points
- Roseate SkimmerDeep Cut85points
- Roseate SpoonbillDeep Cut85points
- Roseate TernDeep Cut85points
- Rosen's tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Rosenberg's fruit-eating batDeep Cut85points
- Rosenberg's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Rosette river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Ross Allen's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Ross' SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Rosy bassletDeep Cut85points
- Rosy blennyDeep Cut85points
- Rosy crown satinDeep Cut85points
- Rosy curimataDeep Cut85points
- Rosy doryDeep Cut85points
- Rosy ground frogDeep Cut85points
- Rosy JewelfishDeep Cut85points
- Rosy Keyhole LimpetDeep 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.