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
- Schroeder's Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Schrottky's Stingless BeeDeep Cut85points
- Schubart's Humming FrogDeep Cut85points
- Schubart's Rondonia treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Schuchert's hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Schulte's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Schulz's round-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Schunk's Snail-eaterDeep Cut85points
- Schwartz's AntthrushDeep Cut85points
- Schwartz's catfishDeep Cut85points
- Schwartz's corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Schwassmann’s tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- Scimitar-billed WoodcreeperDeep Cut85points
- Scimitar-winged PihaDeep Cut85points
- Scinax tymbamirimDeep Cut85points
- Scissor Date MusselDeep Cut85points
- Scissor-tailed HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Scissor-tailed NightjarDeep Cut85points
- Scissortail damselfishDeep Cut85points
- Sclater's AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Sclater's TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Scofield's anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Scolopendra angulataDeep Cut85points
- ScoopheadDeep Cut85points
- Scoopwing MothDeep Cut85points
- Scops Witch MothDeep Cut85points
- Scorched MusselDeep Cut85points
- Scorpion mud turtleDeep Cut85points
- scorpion of HuequeDeep Cut85points
- ScorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- ScorpionflyDeep Cut85points
- Scotch Bonnet SnailDeep Cut85points
- Scraped Pilocrocis MothDeep Cut85points
- Scrawled butterflyfishDeep Cut85points
- Scrawled cowfishDeep Cut85points
- Scrawled soleDeep Cut85points
- ScreamerDeep Cut85points
- Screaming CowbirdDeep Cut85points
- Screaming Hairy ArmadilloDeep Cut85points
- Screaming PihaDeep Cut85points
- ScrewwormDeep Cut85points
- Scribble-tailed CanasteroDeep Cut85points
- Scribbled leatherjacket filefishDeep Cut85points
- Scripted ClitoDeep Cut85points
- Scrub BlackbirdDeep Cut85points
- Scrub GreenletDeep Cut85points
- Scrub NightjarDeep Cut85points
- Scrub TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Scrub tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Scrub-flycatcherDeep 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.