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
- Sheephead gruntDeep Cut85points
- SheepsheadDeep Cut85points
- Sheepshead minnowDeep Cut85points
- Sheepshead porgyDeep Cut85points
- Sheet weaverDeep Cut85points
- SheldgooseDeep Cut85points
- Shelf gobyDeep Cut85points
- Shepherd's Beaked WhaleDeep Cut85points
- Sheriff-badge Sea StarDeep Cut85points
- Shield False LimpetDeep Cut85points
- Shield Fan LobsterDeep Cut85points
- Shield-bearing MothDeep Cut85points
- Shielded Worm LizardDeep Cut85points
- Shieldhead GeckoDeep Cut85points
- Shimmering Golden Sugar antDeep Cut85points
- Shining drumDeep Cut85points
- Shining FiretipDeep Cut85points
- Shining GroundstreakDeep Cut85points
- Shining gruntDeep Cut85points
- Shining HoneycreeperDeep Cut85points
- Shining Leaf ChaferDeep Cut85points
- Shining MacomaDeep Cut85points
- Shining pencilfishDeep Cut85points
- Shining PurplewingDeep Cut85points
- Shining SunbeamDeep Cut85points
- Shining Tree IguanaDeep Cut85points
- Shining tubeshoulderDeep Cut85points
- Shining-green HummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Shiny Atlantic AugerDeep Cut85points
- Shiny Copper TetraDeep Cut85points
- Shiny CowbirdDeep Cut85points
- Shiny Guinea PigDeep Cut85points
- Shiny Lightbulb LizardDeep Cut85points
- Shinyscaled curimataDeep Cut85points
- Shipton's Mountain CavyDeep Cut85points
- ShipwormDeep Cut85points
- ShivDeep Cut85points
- Shoal flounderDeep Cut85points
- Shoe MusselDeep Cut85points
- Shore crabDeep Cut85points
- Short anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Short bigeyeDeep Cut85points
- Short dwarf cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Short Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Short macaroni spongeDeep Cut85points
- Short MacomaDeep Cut85points
- Short-billed CanasteroDeep Cut85points
- Short-billed DowitcherDeep Cut85points
- Short-billed HoneycreeperDeep Cut85points
- Short-billed LeaftosserDeep 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.