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
- Sao Paulo snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Sao Paulo Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- São Paulo SquidDeep Cut85points
- Sao Paulo tree toadDeep Cut85points
- São Salvador burrow-snakeDeep Cut85points
- Sao Vicente tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Sapala SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Sapayo cichlidDeep Cut85points
- SapayoaDeep Cut85points
- Saphenophis SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Sapho LongwingDeep Cut85points
- Sapiranga Humming FrogDeep Cut85points
- Sapodilla Borer MothDeep Cut85points
- Sapote fruit flyDeep Cut85points
- Sapote Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- SapphireDeep Cut85points
- Sapphire dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Sapphire Quail-DoveDeep Cut85points
- Sapphire striped tetraDeep Cut85points
- Sapphire-bellied HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Sapphire-rumped ParrotletDeep Cut85points
- Sapphire-spangled EmeraldDeep Cut85points
- Sapphire-throated HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Sapphire-vented PufflegDeep Cut85points
- Sapucaia toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Sara LongwingDeep Cut85points
- Sara tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Sara's longtail knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Sarah's SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Saramacca coryDeep Cut85points
- Sarare coryDeep Cut85points
- Sarayacu treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Sardinata treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Sardinayacu leaflitter frogDeep Cut85points
- Sardinayacu's Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- SardinellaDeep Cut85points
- Sargassum anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Sargassum NudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Sargassum pipefishDeep Cut85points
- Sargassum Sea MatDeep Cut85points
- Sargassum ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- Sargassum Swimming CrabDeep Cut85points
- Sargassum triggerfishDeep Cut85points
- SargassumfishDeep Cut85points
- Sarisariñama carrying frogDeep Cut85points
- Sarisariñama Forest GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Sarisariñama glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Sarisariñama Rain FrogDeep Cut85points
- Sarisariñama rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Sarisariñama Tepui emerald-barred frogDeep 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.