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
- Sailor's gruntDeep Cut85points
- Saint Martin Porcelain CrabDeep Cut85points
- SakiDeep Cut85points
- Salaeides PodelfinDeep Cut85points
- Salambria BannerDeep Cut85points
- Salazar's Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Salema butterfishDeep Cut85points
- Salenus Faceted-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Salidero Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Salinas MonjitaDeep Cut85points
- Sally Lightfoot crabDeep Cut85points
- Salmon anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Salmon-bellied RacerDeep Cut85points
- Salmon-spotted jewelfishDeep Cut85points
- Salome YellowDeep Cut85points
- SalpDeep Cut85points
- Salt and pepper catfishDeep Cut85points
- Salt and pepper corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Salt Marsh MothDeep Cut85points
- Salta Chinchilla RatDeep Cut85points
- Salta SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Salta toadDeep Cut85points
- Salta treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Salta Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- SaltatorDeep Cut85points
- Salty rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Salvador CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Salvadori's AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Salvin's AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
- Salvin's big-eyed batDeep Cut85points
- Salvin's ClearwingDeep Cut85points
- Salvin's CurassowDeep Cut85points
- Salvin's empressDeep Cut85points
- Salvin's SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Salvinia Stem Borer MothDeep Cut85points
- Samaná glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Samaniego's Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Sambalan RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Sambaqui flower hat jellyDeep Cut85points
- Samson FlasherDeep Cut85points
- San Adolfo Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- San Agustin treefrogDeep Cut85points
- San Alberto Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- San Andre Rapids frogDeep Cut85points
- San Antonio AnoleDeep Cut85points
- San Antonio Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- San Carlos treefrogDeep Cut85points
- San Cristobal Lava LizardDeep Cut85points
- San Cristobal MockingbirdDeep Cut85points
- San Francisco Brine ShrimpDeep 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.