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
- Sabertooth blennyDeep Cut85points
- Sabethes mosquitoDeep Cut85points
- Sabin's glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Sabinal frogDeep Cut85points
- Sabine's GullDeep Cut85points
- Sabis ProminentDeep Cut85points
- Sabre gobyDeep Cut85points
- SabrewingDeep Cut85points
- Sac spiderDeep Cut85points
- Sac-winged batDeep Cut85points
- Sacha Guinea PigDeep Cut85points
- Sacharuna Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Saci Short-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Sack-bearer mothDeep Cut85points
- Saddle bassDeep Cut85points
- Saddle cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Saddle CoryDeep Cut85points
- Saddle corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Saddle stargazerDeep Cut85points
- Saddle-back tamarinDeep Cut85points
- Saddleback duckbillDeep Cut85points
- Saddleback Scoliid WaspDeep Cut85points
- SaddlebagsDeep Cut85points
- Saddled blennyDeep Cut85points
- Saddled morayDeep Cut85points
- Sadia FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Saffron FinchDeep Cut85points
- Saffron PlayboyDeep Cut85points
- Saffron Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Saffron SiskinDeep Cut85points
- Saffron ToucanetDeep Cut85points
- Saffron-billed SparrowDeep Cut85points
- Saffron-cowled BlackbirdDeep Cut85points
- Saffron-crested Tyrant-manakinDeep Cut85points
- Saffron-crowned TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Saffron-headed ParrotDeep Cut85points
- Sage Dunne's Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Sage's Rock RatDeep Cut85points
- Sagitta SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Sail coryDeep Cut85points
- Sailfin blennyDeep Cut85points
- Sailfin clinidDeep Cut85points
- Sailfin corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Sailfin dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Sailfin flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- Sailfin grouperDeep Cut85points
- Sailfin pimeloidDeep Cut85points
- Sailfin snake-eelDeep Cut85points
- Sailfin tetraDeep Cut85points
- Sailor flyingfishDeep 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.