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
- Sandwich TernDeep Cut85points
- Sandy GallitoDeep Cut85points
- Sandy Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Sandy Sea CucumberDeep Cut85points
- Sandy SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Sandy-rubble CrabDeep Cut85points
- Sangama coryDeep Cut85points
- Sangaris SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Sangay PorcupineDeep Cut85points
- Sangay Shrew-opossumDeep Cut85points
- Sanguine TriviaDeep Cut85points
- Sanja Pampa Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Santa Ana Tussock MothDeep Cut85points
- Santa Barbara snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Santa Barbara treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Santa Catarina button frogDeep Cut85points
- Santa Catarina CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- Santa Catarina Humming FrogDeep Cut85points
- Santa Catarina snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Santa Catarina tree toadDeep Cut85points
- Santa Catarina tropical bullfrogDeep Cut85points
- Santa Catarina's Guinea PigDeep Cut85points
- Santa Catharina dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Santa Cecilia Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Santa Cecilia rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Santa Cruz coryDeep Cut85points
- Santa Cruz dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Santa Cruz lava lizardDeep Cut85points
- Santa Cruz whiptail catfishDeep Cut85points
- Santa Fe frogDeep Cut85points
- Santa Fe land iguanaDeep Cut85points
- Santa Fe lava lizardDeep Cut85points
- Santa Ines snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Santa Isabel Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Santa Justina dwarf frogDeep Cut85points
- Santa Marta AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Santa Marta AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Santa Marta AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Santa Marta BlossomcrownDeep Cut85points
- Santa Marta BrushfinchDeep Cut85points
- Santa Marta Bush-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Santa Marta Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- Santa Marta Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Santa Marta Mountain TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Santa Marta ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Santa Marta Parrot SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Santa Marta Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Santa Marta Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Santa Marta SabrewingDeep Cut85points
- Santa Marta Screech-OwlDeep 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.