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
- Silumena BrangasDeep Cut85points
- Silva's Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Silver anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Silver ArgiopeDeep Cut85points
- Silver arowanaDeep Cut85points
- Silver dollarDeep Cut85points
- Silver dolphin catfishDeep Cut85points
- Silver driftfishDeep Cut85points
- Silver drumDeep Cut85points
- Silver EmperorDeep Cut85points
- Silver hatchetfishDeep Cut85points
- Silver lightfishDeep Cut85points
- Silver Longjawed OrbweaverDeep Cut85points
- Silver mojarraDeep Cut85points
- Silver pikecongerDeep Cut85points
- Silver porgyDeep Cut85points
- Silver prochilodusDeep Cut85points
- Silver SatyrDeep Cut85points
- Silver scabbardfishDeep Cut85points
- Silver seatroutDeep Cut85points
- Silver spinyfinDeep Cut85points
- Silver stardrumDeep Cut85points
- Silver TealDeep Cut85points
- Silver tetraDeep Cut85points
- Silver warehouDeep Cut85points
- Silver weakfishDeep Cut85points
- Silver-backed TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Silver-banded HairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Silver-banded SisterDeep Cut85points
- Silver-beaked TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Silver-plated SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Silver-rag driftfishDeep Cut85points
- Silver-studded LeafwingDeep Cut85points
- Silver-throated TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Silver-tipped myotisDeep Cut85points
- SilverdropDeep Cut85points
- Silvered AntbirdDeep Cut85points
- Silvered ProminentDeep Cut85points
- Silvered SkipperlingDeep Cut85points
- Silvergrey gruntDeep Cut85points
- SilversideDeep Cut85points
- SilverspotDeep Cut85points
- Silverspotted eartheaterDeep Cut85points
- Silverstone's Mushroomtongue SalamanderDeep Cut85points
- Silverstone's poison dart frogDeep Cut85points
- Silverstone's Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Silverstone's rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Silvertip sharkDeep Cut85points
- Silvertip tetraDeep Cut85points
- Silvery fruit-eating batDeep 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.