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
- Bicolored Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Bicolored WrenDeep Cut85points
- Bicuspis SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Bidau's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Bidentate yellow-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Bidentate yellow-shouldered batDeep Cut85points
- Bifurcate FlatDeep Cut85points
- Bifurcated robber frogDeep Cut85points
- Big bonneted batDeep Cut85points
- Big brown batDeep Cut85points
- Big Claw Purple Hermit CrabDeep Cut85points
- Big crested mastiff batDeep Cut85points
- Big eye chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Big free-tailed batDeep Cut85points
- Big Jawed SawyerDeep Cut85points
- Big Lutrine OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Big naked-backed batDeep Cut85points
- Big red batDeep Cut85points
- Big Spot PeckoltiaDeep Cut85points
- Big White Spot PlecoDeep Cut85points
- Big-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Big-eared brown batDeep Cut85points
- Big-eared mouseDeep Cut85points
- Big-eared river frogDeep Cut85points
- Big-eye anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Big-eye slender-legged treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Big-eyed batDeep Cut85points
- Big-eyed Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Big-headed Amazon River turtleDeep Cut85points
- Big-headed pantanal swamp turtleDeep Cut85points
- Big-headed RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Big-headed Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Big-scale pomfretDeep Cut85points
- Big-scaled AnoleDeep Cut85points
- Big-scaled blind snakeDeep Cut85points
- Big-scaled NeusticurusDeep Cut85points
- Big-spotted Scarlet-eyeDeep Cut85points
- Bigbarb dragonfishDeep Cut85points
- Bigbelly sea catfishDeep Cut85points
- Bigclaw River ShrimpDeep Cut85points
- BigeyeDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye bassDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye cichlidDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye cigarfishDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye flounderDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye mojarraDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye sand tiger sharkDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye scadDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye searobinDeep 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.