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
- Sebastián's Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Sechura lizardfishDeep Cut85points
- Sechuran FoxDeep Cut85points
- Secondary Screwworm FlyDeep Cut85points
- Secret Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Secretary blennyDeep Cut85points
- Sedge MothDeep Cut85points
- Seed bugDeep Cut85points
- Seed finchDeep Cut85points
- SeedeaterDeep Cut85points
- SeedsnipeDeep Cut85points
- Seegobinas Tepui toadDeep Cut85points
- Segakiato tropical bullfrogDeep Cut85points
- Segmented Turret BeeDeep Cut85points
- Seguro toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Sehuencas Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Sei WhaleDeep Cut85points
- Seirocastnia SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Sela SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Selva CaciqueDeep Cut85points
- Semi-lined tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Semicollared HawkDeep Cut85points
- Semicollared PuffbirdDeep Cut85points
- Seminole gobyDeep Cut85points
- Semipalmated PloverDeep Cut85points
- Semipalmated SandpiperDeep Cut85points
- Semipelagic torpedoDeep Cut85points
- Semiplumbeous HawkDeep Cut85points
- Semiscaled gobyDeep Cut85points
- Semones HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Seneca Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Sentis scallopDeep Cut85points
- Separated StripestreakDeep Cut85points
- Sepia Short-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Sepia-brown WrenDeep Cut85points
- Sepia-capped FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Sergeant-majorDeep Cut85points
- Sergestus Ruby-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Sergius FiretipDeep Cut85points
- SeriemaDeep Cut85points
- Serna's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Seron SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Seropédica tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Serra AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Serra Cantareira saddleback toadDeep Cut85points
- Serra da Bocaina flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Serra da Bocaina snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Serra da Jibóia heart-tongued frogDeep Cut85points
- Serra da Mantiqueira Atlantic Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Serra da Mantiqueira tree frogDeep 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.