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
- Short-billed MinerDeep Cut85points
- Short-billed PigeonDeep Cut85points
- Short-billed PipitDeep Cut85points
- Short-crested FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Short-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Short-eared DogDeep Cut85points
- Short-eared OwlDeep Cut85points
- Short-faced Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Short-finned Pilot WhaleDeep Cut85points
- Short-Fronted ArkDeep Cut85points
- Short-headed broad-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Short-headed lantern fishDeep Cut85points
- Short-lined escolarDeep Cut85points
- Short-lined Kite SwallowtailDeep Cut85points
- Short-maned sand eelDeep Cut85points
- short-neck tritonDeep Cut85points
- Short-nosed Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Short-rod anglerfishDeep Cut85points
- Short-snouted lancetfishDeep Cut85points
- Short-spined OphiodermaDeep Cut85points
- Short-striped round herringDeep Cut85points
- Short-tail yellownose skateDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed AntthrushDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed BrucieDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed Cane MouseDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed ChinchillaDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed coral snakeDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed EmeraldDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed Field TyrantDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed FlasherDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed fruit batDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed HawkDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed NighthawkDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed opossumDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed ParrotDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed pipefishDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed Pygmy-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed SwiftDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed WoodstarDeep Cut85points
- Short-tooth Thorn DrupeDeep Cut85points
- Short-tube scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Shortbeard codlingDeep Cut85points
- Shortbeard cusk-eelDeep Cut85points
- Shortbelly eelDeep Cut85points
- Shortbill spearfishDeep Cut85points
- Shortchin stargazerDeep Cut85points
- Shortdorsal cutthroat eelDeep 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.