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
- Scarlet IbisDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet Mime CrabDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet plecoDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-and-white TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-backed WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-banded BarbetDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-bellied Mountain TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-breasted DacnisDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-breasted FruiteaterDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-browed TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-crowned BarbetDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-eyed DancerDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-fronted ParakeetDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-headed BlackbirdDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-hooded BarbetDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-horned ManakinDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-rumped CaciqueDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-shouldered ParrotletDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-tailed Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-thighed DacnisDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet-throated TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Scattered Pore Rope SpongeDeep Cut85points
- ScaupDeep Cut85points
- Scavenger WhelkDeep Cut85points
- Schach's Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Schau´s SarotaDeep Cut85points
- Schaus' FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Schaus' FlasherDeep Cut85points
- Schaus’ IpideclaDeep Cut85points
- Schaus' Tussock MothDeep Cut85points
- Schaus's Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- SchiffornisDeep Cut85points
- Schindler's fishDeep Cut85points
- SchizomidDeep Cut85points
- Schlegel's Golden SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Schmidt's Coffee-SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Schmidt's forest frogDeep Cut85points
- Schmidt's Green RacerDeep Cut85points
- Schmidt's marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Schmidt's spinythumb frogDeep Cut85points
- Schmidt's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Schmidt's Uruguay treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Schmidts' big-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Schneider's dwarf caimanDeep Cut85points
- Schneider's MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- School bassDeep Cut85points
- Schoolmaster snapperDeep Cut85points
- Schoolmate coryDeep 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.