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
- Sarpedon FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Sash flounderDeep Cut85points
- Satellite SphinxDeep Cut85points
- Sateré MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Satheri's rainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Satin RupelaDeep Cut85points
- Satipo Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Saturnine AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Saturnus SkipperDeep Cut85points
- SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Satyr DarnerDeep Cut85points
- Satyr HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Satyr SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Saucer bryozoanDeep Cut85points
- Saucereye porgyDeep Cut85points
- Saucy BeautyDeep Cut85points
- Sauro lizardfishDeep Cut85points
- SauryDeep Cut85points
- Sauvage's Snail-eaterDeep Cut85points
- Savage's Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Savage's GroundsnakeDeep Cut85points
- Savage's Mushroomtongue SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Savage's thin-toed frogDeep Cut85points
- Savanna Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Savanna HawkDeep Cut85points
- Savanna OncillaDeep Cut85points
- Savanna Side-necked TurtleDeep Cut85points
- Savanna tetraDeep Cut85points
- Savannah Racer SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Saw-billed HermitDeep Cut85points
- Sawcheek cardinalfishDeep Cut85points
- Sawfish planthopperDeep Cut85points
- SawflyDeep Cut85points
- Sawlipped catfishDeep Cut85points
- Sawtooth coryDeep Cut85points
- Sawtooth eelDeep Cut85points
- Say's Keyhole LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Sayaca TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Sazima's leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- Sazima's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Sazima's white-lipped frogDeep Cut85points
- Scabrous barnacleDeep Cut85points
- ScadDeep Cut85points
- Scaglia's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Scale insectDeep Cut85points
- Scale wormDeep Cut85points
- Scale-crested Pygmy-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Scale-throated EarthcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Scale-throated HermitDeep Cut85points
- Scaled AntbirdDeep 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.