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
- Serra das Almas tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Serra de Macaé flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Serra de Mantiqueira big-headed frogDeep Cut85points
- Serra de Paranapiacaba tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Serra do Apiaú rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Serra do Araçatuba flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Serra do Bocaina tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Serra do Brigadeiro snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Serra do Cabral tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Serra do Cachimbo snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Serra do Espinhaço snouted tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Serra do Mar Bristle-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Serra do Mar canebrake tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Serra do Mar flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Serra do Mar Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Serra do Mar Tyrant-manakinDeep Cut85points
- Serra do Morato flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Serra do Quiriri flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Serra do Sincorá tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Serra do Timbó tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Serra dos Barbados tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Serra dos Órgãos anoleDeep Cut85points
- Serra FinchDeep Cut85points
- Serra Geral tree frogDeep Cut85points
- Serra Queimada flea toadDeep Cut85points
- Serra SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Serra Spanish mackerelDeep Cut85points
- Serranía de Contamana poison frogDeep Cut85points
- Serranía de Guanay rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Serrano Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Serrated Hem StarDeep Cut85points
- Serville SwordtailDeep Cut85points
- Sesbania Seed WeevilDeep Cut85points
- Sesbania Stem WeevilDeep Cut85points
- Seuss' coryDeep Cut85points
- Seven ray toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Seven-banded Long-nosed ArmadilloDeep Cut85points
- Seven-colored TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Seven-lined AmeivaDeep Cut85points
- Seven-striped blind snakeDeep Cut85points
- Sevenbarbed banjoDeep Cut85points
- Severi's tube-snouted ghost knifefishDeep Cut85points
- SeverumDeep Cut85points
- Sexton beetleDeep Cut85points
- Shaded-blue LeafwingDeep Cut85points
- Shadow bristlemouthDeep Cut85points
- Shadow-backed AnoviaDeep Cut85points
- Shadowed HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Shadowy broad-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Shadowy LeafsitterDeep 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.