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
- Beni AnacondaDeep Cut85points
- Benitez's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Bennett's Chinchilla RatDeep Cut85points
- Bennett's flyingfishDeep Cut85points
- Bennett's Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bennett's sharpnose pufferDeep Cut85points
- Bent Sea RodDeep Cut85points
- Bent-winged OwletDeep Cut85points
- BentbillDeep Cut85points
- Benttooth bristlemouthDeep Cut85points
- Berger's glass frogDeep Cut85points
- Berland's Trashline OrbweaverDeep Cut85points
- Berlepsch's CanasteroDeep Cut85points
- Berlepsch's TinamouDeep Cut85points
- Bermuda ConeDeep Cut85points
- Bermuda lantern fishDeep Cut85points
- Bermuda sea chubDeep Cut85points
- Bermudagrass LeafhopperDeep Cut85points
- BerryeaterDeep Cut85points
- Bertelsen's lanternfishDeep Cut85points
- Bertha's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Berthold's Bush AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Berthold's Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Bertin's SanguinDeep Cut85points
- Bertoni's AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Beryl-spangled TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Besudo sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Betanien Earth SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Bev Ridgely's Snail-EaterDeep Cut85points
- Bezerros Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Bi-colored leaf frogDeep Cut85points
- BiaraDeep Cut85points
- Bibron's False Coral SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Bibron's IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Bibron's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Bibron's WhiptailDeep Cut85points
- Bicolor bassletDeep Cut85points
- Bicolor damselfishDeep Cut85points
- Bicolor eelDeep Cut85points
- Bicolor false morayDeep Cut85points
- Bicolor MusselDeep Cut85points
- Bicolor-spined PorcupineDeep Cut85points
- Bicolored AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Bicolored AntpittaDeep Cut85points
- Bicolored AntvireoDeep Cut85points
- Bicolored Bird-dropping MothDeep Cut85points
- Bicolored Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bicolored ConebillDeep Cut85points
- Bicolored HawkDeep Cut85points
- Bicolored Pyrausta MothDeep 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.