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
- Bearse's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Beatrix LeafwingDeep Cut85points
- BeaubrummelDeep Cut85points
- BeaugregoryDeep Cut85points
- Beautiful ArkDeep Cut85points
- Beautiful Cosmopterix MothDeep Cut85points
- Beautiful Hoary-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Beautiful JayDeep Cut85points
- Beautiful lizardDeep Cut85points
- Beautiful Marathyssa MothDeep Cut85points
- Beautiful PseudopyraustaDeep Cut85points
- Beautiful TruncatellaDeep Cut85points
- Beautiful WaveDeep Cut85points
- Beautiful WirewormDeep Cut85points
- Beautiful WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Beautiful-eyes glassfrogDeep Cut85points
- Beauty butterflyDeep Cut85points
- BecardDeep Cut85points
- Beck's voluteDeep Cut85points
- Bee flyDeep Cut85points
- Beebe's Fiddler CrabDeep Cut85points
- Beebe's rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Beelzebub bee-killerDeep Cut85points
- Beggina SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Behn's big-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Bela vista tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Belcher's GullDeep Cut85points
- Belgica's hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Bell glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Bell hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Bell-banded TheopeDeep Cut85points
- Bell's AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Bell's LongtailDeep Cut85points
- Bell's RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Bella MapwingDeep Cut85points
- BellbirdDeep Cut85points
- Bellera GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Bellicose Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bello rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Bellona metalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Belly-speckled Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Bellyspotted toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Belo Horizonte tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Belt's MyscelusDeep Cut85points
- Belted blennyDeep Cut85points
- Belted cardinalfishDeep Cut85points
- Belted KingfisherDeep Cut85points
- Belted Tripudia MothDeep Cut85points
- Belus SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Ben Keith's short-tailed batDeep 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.