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
- Round ribbontail rayDeep Cut85points
- Round sardinellaDeep Cut85points
- Round scadDeep Cut85points
- Round stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Round-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Round-mouth Bean UrchinDeep Cut85points
- Round-tailed ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Round-winged SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Roundbelly cowfishDeep Cut85points
- Rounded AnterosDeep Cut85points
- Rounded BannerDeep Cut85points
- Rounded MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Rounded PurplewingDeep Cut85points
- Rounded SootywingDeep Cut85points
- Roundel batfishDeep Cut85points
- Roundfinned dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Roundhead grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Roundhead rubbernose plecoDeep Cut85points
- Roundnose knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Roundnose lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Rove beetleDeep Cut85points
- Row Pore Rope SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Rowing CrabDeep Cut85points
- Roy's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Royal Bonnet SnailDeep Cut85points
- Royal CinclodesDeep Cut85points
- Royal Comb VenusDeep Cut85points
- Royal crabDeep Cut85points
- Royal FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Royal flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Royal grammaDeep Cut85points
- Royal ground snakeDeep Cut85points
- Royal highhatDeep Cut85points
- Royal mothDeep Cut85points
- Royal panaqueDeep Cut85points
- Royal peacock bassDeep Cut85points
- Royal Poinciana GraphicDeep Cut85points
- Royal red shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Royal Sea GoddessDeep Cut85points
- Royal SunangelDeep Cut85points
- Royal TernDeep Cut85points
- Royal tetraDeep Cut85points
- Royal tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Royal whiptail catfishDeep Cut85points
- Roze's Coastal House SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Roze’s geckoDeep Cut85points
- Roze's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Roze's Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Rozen's Mini-Oil diggerDeep Cut85points
- Rubber lip plecoDeep 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.