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
- Rufous-throated DipperDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-throated SapphireDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-throated TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-vented ChachalacaDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-vented Ground-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-vented TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-vented WhitetipDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-webbed BrilliantDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-webbed Bush-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-winged AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-winged Ground-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-winged TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Rufous-winged TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Rugose Swimming CrabDeep Cut85points
- Ruibal's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Ruida's AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Ruiz's Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Ruiz's marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Ruiz's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Ruiz's rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Rummy-nose tetraDeep Cut85points
- Running crab spiderDeep Cut85points
- Rupicolous Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Rurrenabaque tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Rusch's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Ruschenberger Tree BoaDeep Cut85points
- Ruschi's Spiny MouseDeep Cut85points
- Russet AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Russet Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Russet-backed OropendolaDeep Cut85points
- Russet-bellied SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Russet-crowned CrakeDeep Cut85points
- Russet-crowned Quail-DoveDeep Cut85points
- Russet-crowned WarblerDeep Cut85points
- Russet-mantled Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- Russet-mantled SofttailDeep Cut85points
- Russet-throated PuffbirdDeep Cut85points
- Russet-winged SchiffornisDeep Cut85points
- Russet-winged SpadebillDeep Cut85points
- Rust corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Rust-and-yellow TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Rustan HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Rusted Clearwing-SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Rusted MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Rustic QuakerDeep Cut85points
- Rustic SaddlebagsDeep Cut85points
- Rustic SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Rusty Brown BirdeaterDeep Cut85points
- Rusty ClearwingDeep Cut85points
- Rusty corydorasDeep 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.