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
- Rusty CrescentDeep Cut85points
- Rusty FlowerpiercerDeep Cut85points
- Rusty gobyDeep Cut85points
- Rusty Guard CrabDeep Cut85points
- Rusty MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Rusty Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Rusty RocksnailDeep Cut85points
- Rusty Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Rusty scaly blennyDeep Cut85points
- Rusty Spider WaspDeep Cut85points
- Rusty TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Rusty toadDeep Cut85points
- Rusty treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-backed AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-backed MonjitaDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-backed SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-barred OwlDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-bellied BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-belted TapaculoDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-breasted AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-breasted NunletDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-browed Warbling FinchDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-collared SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-crowned Tit-spinetailDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-faced ParrotDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-flanked CrakeDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-flanked ThrushDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-fronted CanasteroDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-fronted Tody-flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-headed SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-margined FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-margined GuanDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-necked PiculetDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-tailed Stingless beeDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-tinged AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-tipped PageDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-winged AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Rusty-winged BarbtailDeep Cut85points
- Rustyhead snakeDeep Cut85points
- Rutherford's Vine SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Ruthven's AnadiaDeep Cut85points
- Ruthven's BachiaDeep Cut85points
- Ruthven's MacropholidusDeep Cut85points
- Ruthven's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- S-banded Tiger BeetleDeep Cut85points
- Saavedra Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Sabana Surinam toadDeep Cut85points
- Sabanera SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Sabanilla Dwarf SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Saberfin killieDeep 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.