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
- San Francisco croakerDeep Cut85points
- San Francisco piranhaDeep Cut85points
- San Gil Mushroomtongue SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- San Isidro stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- San Javier's Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- San Jose Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- San Jose white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- San Juan Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- San Juan Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- San Lorenzo Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- San Lorenzo stubfoot toadDeep Cut85points
- San Lucas marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- San Martín redbelly toadDeep Cut85points
- San Martín rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- San Martín TitiDeep Cut85points
- San Miguel island frogDeep Cut85points
- San Vicente Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- San Vicente rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- San Vicente snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Sanborn's big-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Sanborn's bonneted batDeep Cut85points
- Sanborn's Soft-haired MouseDeep Cut85points
- Sanborn's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Sanborn's Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Sanchez's giant glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Sanchez's PiranhaDeep Cut85points
- Sancta Maria rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Sand anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Sand diverDeep Cut85points
- Sand drumDeep Cut85points
- Sand dunes BlackheadDeep Cut85points
- Sand fishDeep Cut85points
- Sand gruntDeep Cut85points
- Sand knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Sand MartinDeep Cut85points
- Sand perchDeep Cut85points
- Sand Small-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Sand stargazerDeep Cut85points
- Sand tiger sharkDeep Cut85points
- Sand tilefishDeep Cut85points
- Sand waspDeep Cut85points
- Sand whiffDeep Cut85points
- Sand-canyon gobyDeep Cut85points
- Sand-colored NighthawkDeep Cut85points
- Sandbar PurplewingDeep Cut85points
- Sandbar sharkDeep Cut85points
- SanddabDeep Cut85points
- SanderlingDeep Cut85points
- SandflyDeep Cut85points
- Sands' coryDeep 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.