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
- Scaled AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Scaled ChachalacaDeep Cut85points
- Scaled DoveDeep Cut85points
- Scaled FlowerpiercerDeep Cut85points
- Scaled FruiteaterDeep Cut85points
- Scaled Ground-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Scaled herringDeep Cut85points
- Scaled MetaltailDeep Cut85points
- Scaled PiculetDeep Cut85points
- Scaled PigeonDeep Cut85points
- Scaled SpinetailDeep Cut85points
- Scaled WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Scaled Worm SnailDeep Cut85points
- Scaleless black dragonfishDeep Cut85points
- Scaleless dragonfishDeep Cut85points
- Scaleless gobyDeep Cut85points
- Scaleline cuskDeep Cut85points
- Scallop sea squirtDeep Cut85points
- Scallop-breasted AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Scallop-patched TheopeDeep Cut85points
- Scalloped AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Scalloped bonnetheadDeep Cut85points
- Scalloped hammerheadDeep Cut85points
- Scalloped OwletDeep Cut85points
- Scalloped ribbonfishDeep Cut85points
- Scalloped WentletrapDeep Cut85points
- Scalloped WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- ScallopwingDeep Cut85points
- Scaly boyDeep Cut85points
- Scaly ChitonDeep Cut85points
- Scaly stargazerDeep Cut85points
- Scaly-breasted HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Scaly-headed ParrotDeep Cut85points
- Scaly-legged PyralidDeep Cut85points
- Scaly-naped AmazonDeep Cut85points
- Scaly-naped PigeonDeep Cut85points
- Scaly-throated Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- Scaly-throated LeaftosserDeep Cut85points
- Scalyback AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Scalyfin bassletDeep Cut85points
- Scalyfin gruntDeep Cut85points
- Scamander SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- ScampDeep Cut85points
- ScarabDeep Cut85points
- Scarce AnastrusDeep Cut85points
- Scarce Bamboo PageDeep Cut85points
- Scarce MorphoDeep Cut85points
- Scarce Snouted FrogDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet DragonletDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet frogfishDeep 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.